These insects can attract hefty fish, especially alongside banks where hoppers are thick - or in the flow just below them.

As grasshoppers usually congregate in localised pockets, it pays to find these concentrations first and then work on water near them.  

Beetles will also be on trout diets until season’s end; either the green and yellow insects often called soldier beetles or the black and brown variety reported thick on parts of the Meander River a few weeks ago.

Fly fishers floating copies of these beetles under or just downstream from riverside roosts like tea trees could easily be rewarded.

The Inland Fisheries Service describes as outstanding current action from top quality Arthurs Lake trout.

Wobblers have been productive, especially around Jonah Bay while fly fishers, in covering many brawny brownies rising to mayflies and damselflies in Cowpaddock Bay, appreciate its expansive reaches.

In suitable weather, many others afloat on Little Pine and Penstock Lagoons are looking for rises.

Then a veteran recently fishing from a southern shore of Penstock at noon found numerous trout sipping minute caenid mayflies. Presenting a tiny size 16 floater, he hooked and eventually netted a trout of almost two kilograms.

In Tamar estuary brine, anglers are after King George whiting while others have been taking many squid near the Low Head Pilot Station, although action has sometimes been patchy, and out from St Helens, blue-eye trevalla are being boated and weighty mako sharks hooked.