The record temperatures recorded recently have kept rivers and streams warmer than normal for the time of year, but it will just take a frost or two to cool them down.
River levels have dropped very low over the past week but luckily it has not been too hot and water temperatures have remained within the comfort zone.
We are in the middle of a purple patch as far as fishing is concerned and cicadas are dropping on the tussock lakes, willow grub are falling on lowland streams and trout are taking advantage of...
Summer has arrived (again) this week, and with the weather forecast looking as settled as it has been for a while, this will be the weekend to get out fishing. River levels are also just right.
Rain earlier in the week has raised river levels a little but they are already dropping and should not spoil the chances of catching a fish at the weekend.
The fine weather this week has done wonders for rivers and streams. All are now fishable and some are just about perfect, which is ironic, as the cicada fishing on the tussock lakes has taken off...
In case you had not noticed a lot of rain has fallen in the past week, resulting in flooding in places and putting most rivers out of action as far as fishing is concerned.
The small amount of rain that we have had this week should not have harmed the fishing prospects but it only takes a thunderstorm somewhere to wipe out local streams for a day or two.
Where I live on the Taieri Plain, we had a dry year last year, which caused rivers to be very low at times — except during the big flood in February, which mainly affected rivers to the south.