Saturday 17th October

I've been rather busy with the family today, so I didn't get down to the river
until 15.00 and to my surprise the fish were raising, second cast a cracking Brownie
and within no time another two Brownies all good fish all taken on size 16 all brown dry
fly. No sign of any Grayling. Only fished for an hour before the temperature was
dropping and unfortunately I lost my wading staff. I forgot to put and strap round
my neck.! Will have to look for a new one.

Monday 5th October

This will be my last blog of the Trout Season 2009, today being on holiday I invited my

Chairman to fish as my guest on Derwent Fly water and we met at 10.00 in the car park for beats 8/9/10 it was only 4 degrees I thought no rising fish and how wrong could I be. We both

had a cracking morning until 12.30 when we stopped for lunch at the Plough very nice. After

lunch it wasn't quite as good but we both finished up with 7 each Grayling/Brownies and 1 Rainbow.

This was my best Brownie of the day.

Sunday 4th October

Well folks today was the day when Derwentflyfisher and Baslowfisher fished together

at Chatsworth. We had a very enjoyable afternoon started with very special Hancocks pork pie and beer before fishing a rather deep stretch - we were both up to our arm pits before

moving up river to shallower water. We walked up through the park and fish all the good spots

I finished up with 3 Grayling and 3 Brownies, all taken on the all brown dry fly again. Not sure how many Baslowfisher caught but his best fish was a cracking Rainbow I'm sure there will be a picture on his blog. we stopped about 17.00 and finished to day off with more special pork pie

and beer. Thanks Baslowfisher a great afternoon.

Friday 2nd October

Decided to book a couple of days holiday and make it a long weekend, booked my
favourite beats 6 & 7, when I arrived at the car park and looked down at the river
lots of leaves - very autumnal. The rain just kept off and managed to fish for an hour
and half had 3 good Brownies and lost one all to my all brown fly, it really has been a
cracking little fly this season. The leaves are a bit of a problem but a river is in very
good condition.
The end of the Trout season is not far away now- 7th October. Then its Grayling till
the end of the season.

Saturday 26th September

Well folks- with the shorter evenings now the weekends are the only time to get down to the river. So today I booked beats 8, 9 and 10 and the weather forecast was very good for this time of the year. I was joined by a Friend from the village and we started at the bottom of beat 8 and
fished our way up the river in turns, I was just into my first fish a good sized brownie when I had the company of one water vole swimming directly across the river - they always swim in such a straight line. We had a very enjoyable afternoon, my guest finished up with 3 Rainbows
6 Brownies and my count was 1 Grayling and 5 Brownies, and as we were walking back to the car the Red Arrows flew over- really making it a special day. So we finished off with a couple of
bottles of Becks !!

Saturday 19th September

Well folks - this is Baslowfisher Nymphing, my

great friend joined me today on Derwent Fly Fishers

water and we had a great day together, He caught

rather more fish than I did, I managed 1 Rainbow 3

Grayling and 3 Bownies a very enjoyable day.

finished with a couple a beers !!!!!!!

Saturday 12th September

I had jobs to do this morning so this afternoon I thought lets go fishing !
and what an afternoon and first hour was a bit quiet with just one small
Grayling I must say it was a bit bright and sunny. Managed to move up
under the shade of the trees and things really started to happen. In the
next hour I had 5 Brownies and 4 Rainbows what a absolutely cracking
afternoon, I said September was going to be a good month.