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Early season is always a great time to fish, with the excitement of a new season and new angling horizons. Angling contacts report good fishing so far, although the weather (as always) has been dodgy at times and the rivers down here have been pretty full, with big flows. The fishing will only get better as summer progresses.

The good news is that there are still some big trout around from last season’s mouse-fuelled frenzy. Many of these trout have held most of their body condition over winter and a number of double-figure trout have been landed already. Often the season after a mouse plague is the best time to catch big trout as they resume insect feeding and are more vulnerable to a flyfisher’s wares. A trout that is hungry during the daytime hours is going to present more angling opportunity for most anglers, so get out there and get into it!

Best of all this season there will be minimal commercial activity out there on our rivers. So make the most of those increasing sunshine hours, lower river flows, and increased trout