30 th july,derwent/howden reservoirs

I know it is only a week since my last visit but we planned
on fishing the river derwent below ladybower only to be
told that only a couple of us could fish the river so we
decided to split up with one on the river and two fishing
howden/derwent water.mick took the river with me and
john going up the reservoirs to fish derwent and howden.

on reaching derwent reservoir we were greeted by a stiff
southerly wind which made it very difficult and with hardly
anything rising all day we had to concentrate on the
wet/nymphs

we started off with small grhe nymphs which
produced a few tugs but no fish we worked through the
nymph box with limited success of a couple for me and
john a couple more than that.

my hot patch of the day was after putting on a slime line

with a goldhead nymph on the point and black & brae on

the droppers which produced 3 fish out of 5 casts and a

tug on the other 2 casts all taking the wet fly.

above is john later in the day fishing at howden with the

wind blowing towards us and a limited backcast this beach

didn't give us a fish but was a nice place to enjoy a cuppa.

above was my best fish of the day taken on a beaded ptn

on the slow sinking clear line this went just over a pound

but fought like a tiger on closer inspection of this fishes

mouth i beleave that there is some predation going on

with is long distance relatives being invited to lunch.

another trout with bristling fins and full o beans not

knowing when they are beat .below john takes another

little beauty on a floater with a nymph on the point.

on finishing for the day we did a little sightseeing and

visited the memorial to the 617 sq dambusters which was

part of a recent service and fly-past that had been held to

mark the 65th anniversary of the World War II Dambusters

mission.

This was another very good day in the derwent valleys

and we hope to return soon maybe next time we will get

on the river with mick fishing the upland reservoirs(lol)