It certainly made it hard for competitors and organisers of the Leigh Martin Marine Mercury Classic on Lake Hume. You were flat out standing in it let alone fishing in it, but that's what quite a few competitors did.

As you would expect, fish numbers were low but they were a lot higher than I would have thought given the conditions with everyone that participated deserving a bravery award I reckon.

Not sure of the overall number of fish but the 350 fishos that entered did pretty well to catch anything.

The biggest yella, of 61cm, was caught by Shane Boswell on a wide-bodied McGrath.

Biggest trout, caught by Cooper Boyle, was a very respectable 69cm.

Best redfin was 44cm, also a very big fish, and was caught by Ben Roberts. Biggest carp was 72cm and caught by Stephen Hausfeld.

On the junior side of things the winners were, Matilda Robinson, with a 61cm yella, Charlie Morton with a 35cm redfin and Eli Toll with a 62cm carp. Congrats to all the winners. On the by-catch side, there were also lots of cod reported, with the bulk of them being around 50cm so it looks like that particular year's release had a great survival rate.

One boat reported catching nine over the weekend all at, or not far over, that 50cm mark! I heard of two others just under 80cm, as well as others in between, so all's still on course for a decent cod fishery in Hume by the look of it.

I suppose we can now set our sights on the next comp on the calendar which is only a couple of weeks off. The TBS Marine Women's Fishing Classic Dartmouth is a great weekend of fun and fishing and always draws a great crowd.

There is plenty of prizes, including a boat and motor and thousands of dollars worth of fishing gear, as well as all sorts of other "stuff", and we all like "stuff".

This is always a terrific comp and a great excuse for a trip away so get a pair, a team of three or a club together and register online now.

It starts on Friday, November 15 and the fishing and frivolity finishes on Saturday, giving you time to recover for the trip home Sunday.

Dartmouth is at 55.16 per cent and was also nearly unfishable on Saturday but there were a few fishos up there through the week and most reported a fish or two.

One fella picked up 12 on Tuesday morning although 10 of them were only around the 20cm mark. This is great news I reckon, as it indicates a good spawning run and supposedly reasonable survival from a year or so back, here's hoping anyway.

Streams are still looking good and this dose of rain, predicted for Saturday, won't do them any harm. Fly, lure and bait fishos all seem to be doing pretty well at the minute.

The Hume (39.21 per cent) has fished pretty well since the weekend, despite being a bit dirty after the weekend blast.

There's still plenty of cod being caught along with some decent yellas and the odd good trout.

Matt Giggins sent a photo of a fat looking 63cm trout to our Compleat Angler Lavington Facey site during the week.

Great to see Vic Fisheries releasing another 20,000 yearling browns into Hume during the week too.

The Murray: below Albury hasn't been too bad, particularly for those targeting the yellas.

There has also been a few cod showing up and a few trout off the gravel bars on spoon type lures.

Blowering (54.8 per cent): has been great for the cod fishos, particularly for those fishing with bait from the bank.

There have been some rippers caught on lures too, with quite a few meterys amongst them.

Unfortunately, the reddies are still very slow but a few yellas are starting to show up.

Tantangara (19.66 per cent): seems to still be fishing the best of the Snowy Lakes although the average size hasn't been huge.

All methods are working well up there but trolling a fender and a scrubbie was a winner for one of our customers who boated 23 nice fish over a three-day trip this week.

Eucumbene (29.4 per cent) and Jindabyne (80.56 per cent): have both been reasonably tough but there's still enough being caught to keep the keen fishos happy.

Seems to be shallow minnows early, then switching to lead line and Tassies or downrigger and Tassies later in the morning is the go.

Anyhow, it might get a little damp but surely it can't get as blowy as it did this time last week.

So, good fishing if you get the chance to get out.