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.