Monday 31st August

Well today was the best forecast for the bank-holiday weekend, after going out for lunch I didn't reach the Derwent on beat 6/7 until 15.15
and on beat 7 there were some really large brownies rising, I still had one of my all brown flies on and over the next 2 hours finished up with 1 Grayling and 4 Brownies all very good fish as you can see.

Thursday 27th August

Managed to get home early tonight having booked beats 2/3 for the evening. I was very surprised with a water level - this photo is of beat 1 had a few casts on the left bank before moving up stream under Grindleford Bridge to Beat 2, had 3 brownies and 1 grayling to one of my all brown flies again and lost a very good brownie after a strong fight. I would of thought that after all the rain this week the river would
have been a little higher. Just fished from 18.30
19.15 before heading for the pub.

Saturday 22nd August

Well been rather busy and tired this week to go in the evenings-so booked beats 14/15 today, when I arrived at the river around 14.00 the wind was keeping the fish down, when the wind dropped they started rising and I broken with 6X very quickly. What a fish !. changed to 5X and tried again with the same all brown fly this grayling was next -nice fish.
The only other fish was a brownie before heading for home at 16.00.

One of tonights brownies

New Orvis Reel

Tuesday 18th August

Hi everybody-Derwentflyfisher is back. Fully Beat 7
refreshed after a week in France great time.
Well tonight is the first time I've been out fishing for a while got down to the river about 18.15 and the fish were rising everywhere they appeared to be taking midges, so put on one of my trusted Olive F Flies and quickly had two very nice brownies on beat 7 , then moved down to beat 6
and had 2 small grayling on my all brown fly before switching back to Beat 7 for one more brownies before heading to the pub. Very enjoyable evening great to be back.

Monday 3rd August

It's been a week since the Derwent has been in a state to fish -still a little coloured but getting better, the only trouble is rain is forcast tomorrow. Not a lot rising tonight just fished for a hour
until 20.00 and had 2 wild brownies and 1 cracking grayling best fish of the night all taken on a Olive F Fly.