Derwent,willersley castle,10th may

a few hours up at the castle.
met a few anglers down there with mix reports,
some struggling with another doing ok.listened
to advice and opted for the mayfly route with
only a few showing but the odd fish slashing at them.
only managed a couple of fish and lost a few.
did not like the feisty young bullocks seeming to
follow me along the river,soon cleared when i
jumped off the wall near checking box with my
size 13 herman boots apart from one who stood
his ground only to look around for his mates and
soon cleared off has he thought better of tackling
a"sashqatch"
the mayfly are starting to come off and will soon be in
full swing.

lower derwent,8th july

had the evening down on the derwent with mick,
it was a nice evening just chilling listening to gold
on the radio.loads of chubby like taps all the time we
were fishing.had to wait for a allmighty bite about 10.20pm
at first i thought this was a carp as it took line and made
some powerfull runs,it took me a good ten minutes to
get the fish on top in front so i could get the
net under her.on seeing the size i was gobsmacked
as surely this was a good un.

when i weighed it ,i had to look twice as the avon
scales settled on 12.12lb my new pb.
having some great fishing at the moment ,cant wait
till my school holidays(six weeks) then i can get more
fishing in with maybe some all nighters.

Fathers day, river derwent,20 june 2010

chub 4lb

barbel 8lb 8oz

my new personal best barbel 11lb 5oz

river derwent ,17,june2010

mine 9lb 4oz

johns first of season 6lb 10oz

johns 9lb8oz

long hot day but enjoyable all the same.

willersley castle,dewent 13,6,2010

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Willersley castle,well it is may

Had a lovely afternoons fishing at willersley
castle with one or two mayflys fluttering
around and getting slashed at by the trout.
as you can see below the sun was shining
with most of the trout under the canopy
of the huge trees (mainly alder)

started off with a mayfly pattern favourite of
micks but couldnt get the trout intrested.
put on a detached body may (tied by me)with
the body made up with cohesive bandage,started
getting a few takes but only one fish to show for
it.

in the end resorted to my faithfull yellow humpy
which saw me catching some great fish.the one
pictured below had a right set of teeth on it which
tried to bite me finger off as i unhooked it.

brilliant afternoons fishing cant wait for may fly
in full swing.

Carsington insect soup

had a nice afternoon at carsington yesterday

,took the mrs along (just sunbathing)

the surface of the water was covered in loads

of insects with the fish just cruising along sipping

the soup down at a leisurely pace.

fish were rising all day long even in the flat calm.

it was quite hard to approach the pods of fish

but i did manage a few to dry flies (claret bumble,

bibio )

my best of the day went to 6lb which was quite a

battle on 4lb tippet.

nice day in the weather but hard fishing.

new pb for me

snook off fishing this afternoon even though it
is my mrs birthday today ,good job i took her
out yesterday to see the new robin hood movie
at the swankie cinema de lux in the new westfield
centre ,derby .followed by a great ruby murray.
got the flowers sorted this morning with card and
balloon ,i even made her breakfast(creep)
it was worth all the effort ,purchased a new season
ticket from the tackle shop for a club which i
first fished in the mid seventies.decided on which lake
to fish ,set up 12 ft rod with 4lb main line,3lb hooklength
size 18 barbless hoping to catch a few tench ,bream ,perch
and roach.
only had perch upto about 4oz till about 6.30pm when my
float shot under ,slipping line off my reel with me just holding
the rod hoping it would turn towards me which it did then
preceeded to swim up and down the margins with me following
it through trees and reeds.i played the brute for over twenty
minutes until john my son in law slipped the net under her.
i could hardly lift it out and did not beleave it when my avon
scales went round to 22.5lb.
gave her plenty of time to recover and off she went steadily back
into the deep water.

in the car park met a chap who said he caught
the same fish a couple of weeks ago and produced
a picture of the mirror carp.
still i was happy with my days fishing and my new
p.b

Flies of derbyshire

alder fly? (willington,trent)

RIVER EREWASH SOCIAL ,Foremark reservoir

great days fishing at foremark with mick and
kev making it early before 9.00 with me getting
there after 10.00 and ady coming down after lunch.

ady with a unexpected perch.

mick with a nice rainbow which fought like a tiger

we had a river erewash foundation socialat foremark
yesterday with loads of fishtaken mostly on the
buzzers.we had expected about 8 to turn up but ended
up with only 4 due to the weather forecast being crap.
mick won the day with over 30 fish thebiggest pushing
5lb,my best around 4lb managing 20 odd fish.nearly
all my fish came to buzzers apart from one on a claret
bumble ady managed a nice perch as well on a small buzzer.
great day out