It's that time of the year again, school's out in Victoria.

By now most Victorian kids know that school holidays mean trout stockings in local waterways and are all over it.

For those that mightn't have been aware, the Victorian fisheries release "ready to catch" yearling rainbow trout in lots of local puddles just prior to school holidays.

It's a great time to get the kids out of the house and catch a fish or two and here's where those fish have gone locally.

Wodonga has had three sites stocked - Felltimber Creek Wetlands, 600; Les Stone, Park, 300 and Sumsion Gardens has had 400 fat little yearling Rainbows dropped in.

Glenrowan has had 600 and Merriwa Park Lake in Wangaratta has had 200 released into it.

Lake Sambal at Beechworth has received 450, the Stanley Ditch Dam another 500 and last but not least the Tronoh Dredge Hole at Harrietville has been given 400.

These releases have proven to be an absolute winner for everyone but particularly for local kids on holidays

What a great use of our licence money.

Just remember the purpose of these releases and if you see some other "cormorants" out there catching fish don't be backward in letting them know what these stockings are supposed to be all about, getting kids out fishing.

Dartmouth, at 52.06 per cent, seems to have gone a tad off the boil in the past week or two.

We've been reporting some great numbers since restrictions were lifted, with numerous fishos bagging out using a variety of lure combos at a variety of depths.

The variety of lures and other paraphernalia being used with success hasn't changed much but fish numbers seem to have dropped a little in the past week or so.

The five or 10 per boat per day seems to have come back to two to five a boat a day, with only the odd better bag and a few well under.

I was lucky enough to pick up a couple on Tuesday and know of a couple of other fishos that managed twos and threes.

All of ours were caught flat-lining Tassies, with mine coming off the silver Greyhound K 9 series.

The Albury-Wodonga Sport Fishing Club had similar results last Saturday/Sunday although Garry Sargeant managed a nice "Macca" while trying a worm and also picked up a reasonable Rainbow on worm under a bubble.

One other fisho, who wishes to remain nameless, had an interesting day up there on Wednesday when his motor broke down right up at Toke Creek.

For those not in the know, Toke is over 20 kilometres from the ramp!

Luckily, this happened at 8am and luckily this gentleman had an 80lb, 24v electric motor.

It takes eight hours to troll from Toke Creek to the ramp on an electric motor if you were ever wondering.

You've gotta wonder if this bloke was ever in the boy scouts though as he was very well prepared, having four deep cycle batteries in the boat with him and a full spanner set to change batteries over!

Without those, it might have been a very cool night up there.

Lake Hume (40 per cent): has risen heaps again this week - about 750mm.

There are still reports of the odd good yella being angled from the bank and also positive reports about the water clarity continuing to improve.

All we need now is a few trout to show up and have a crack and a bit of decent weather to attract us out there.

Saw one report on social media of a fisho who'd trolled up a few small reddies too so that's a start anyway.

Vic Fisheries is also releasing another 20,000 brown trout on Monday at Ludlows Reserve at about 11am. If you want to go out for a look be aware that social distancing is still in place and while you're probably welcome to have a look, just keep that in mind.

The Murray: very low below Hume, very high above the Hume and looks like staying that way for a bit.

Unfortunately, it makes both areas hard to fish!

I know Mal Windrum and Lloyd Curtis fished the Upper Murray last weekend with a couple of mates and caught bugger all, saying the river was very high and dirty.

Lloyd had done ok a few weeks earlier on high water but it was a fair bit clearer on that particular occasion.

There's still plenty of crays about if you can get into the water below Albury but with only 600 meg coming out of the weir, you need a small boat.

The Snowy Lakes continue to drop and seem to be struggling a bit.