I just don’t know what has to be done to educate these people. Governments have been spending millions over decades, trying different ads and jingles.

There’s been so many different campaigns, aimed at so many age groups over so many years, and look at the results … or lack of.

I know it’s the same old rant again and I wish I had something more positive to say, but it’s not easy to ignore all that broken glass and other crap lying around when you’ve got kids wanting to run around.

It’s so simple – take it with you or put it in the bin, you know, the one that’s normally about 10m from where you leave your junk.

Dartmouth – was really blowy and also got pretty cool last weekend, so we didn’t get a great deal of reports.

Kevin and Garry Poynter were two keen fishos that braved the elements and confirmed it was definitely jumper weather. About 20mm of rain Friday night didn’t help.

They targeted the Maccas as well as chasing the trout and ended up really struggling due to the conditions, only managing one Macca and dropping a trout at the boat. That’s fishing!

Streams – have been great. Just about every stream fish I’ve spoken to in the last week has done well.

All your traditional spinners, soft plastics, small hard bodies, bait or fly – it doesn’t seem to matter. Hoppers are everywhere, so you shouldn’t have a problem getting bait.

Just a couple of tips on the hoppers though.

Try and catch them early, before their solar panels energise them and it becomes a lot more work.

Use a fine little net that you can wave around in front of your legs as you walk briskly through the grass, then you can just sit for a while and pluck them out at your leisure, putting them into an empty plastic drink bottle.

If you happen to be hitting the water later in the day, try walking the edge of the stream and jump in and grab the ones that have jumped into the water. Much easier than jumping around in the middle of a paddock looking like a crazy person.

Mulwala – has been OK, but recent windy days have made it pretty hard to fish.

Have heard from a couple that fished from the bank in the Kiffens area. They managed a couple of keepers using chicken for bait, and also a couple of young blokes that picked up seven walking the edges on the Yarrawonga side using spinnerbaits. Also heard of a Corowa bloke nailing a couple of rippers off the surface at night, with one just over a metre.

The Murray, up and downstream from Hume, has been fantastic lately, with plenty of cod being picked up in both stretches of river.

Hard bodies being trolled or spun, spinnerbaits or surface lures – they’re all going great guns, although a lot of the fish are just under legal and a lot depends on water levels. To be honest, I can’t remember cod fishing ever being better than it is at the moment in the Murray.

Lake Hume is also fishing really well. This week, we’ve again had numerous reports of great bags of decent reddies. I had the chance to get out there myself with son Ben on Thursday morning and we managed about 30 keepers.

I wouldn’t say all those keepers were great fish, but we both took home a couple of good feeds with a couple of them around the old   1 ½ lb mark. Yabbies were great, as were Yakamito vibes and some small blades we flicked about for a while.

In the end, we were just dropping them over the side and were flat out getting to the bottom. But as I said, lots of small fish. We got on to that particular patch of fish after spotting some gulls working, so keep your eyes peeled when you head out.

Up at Blowering, reddies have also decided to have a dip by the sound of things, with a few decent reports finally coming in. They’re using pretty much the same techniques we were using at Hume, but there’s also been a few decent ones being spun from shore.