Saturday 24th September 2011

Today I fished with Matty & Alison watching on beats 9 and 10, Matty is 9 years old
and I think this was his first chance to Fly fish, so we started on the grass and tried casting
without a fly to start with, before wading up beat 9 watch is quite shallow on the right bank.
I caught a cracking Brownie to start but lost it unfortunately, as we waded up together I caugth
two more small Brownies before getting to one of my best spots where we caught 1 good Grayling and two more Small Brownies. We all had a very enjoyable afternoon.

Saturday 17th September 2011

Today was our day to carry our River Monitoring on beat 6 we do this every month which is
very interesting. After something to eat and drink we usually fish for a while John and his guest Mike fished on beat 7, and I walked down to beat 6 and caught a Grayling on my first cast. and very quickly caught another Grayling, before the heavens opened and the rain really put an end to the fishing. The water was quite clear considering all the rain we had on Friday.

Sunday 11th September 2011

Well today was a bit of a surprise I thought the wind would make fishing rather difficult, so after lunch I decided to book beats 2/3 and have a go, I didn't get down to the river until 14.00 I got tackled up in Grindleford car park there was a cricket match on which I watched for a short while. I then walked to below Grindleford Bridge and than under the bridge and waded up beat 2 there were very few rises taking place I put on a LDO type size 16 and cast across to the far side to a little rise and caught a beautiful little brownie it's good to know they are breeding well in the river. As I was wading up the beat a group of crickers were on the waters edge asking me if i could recover their cricket ball which was floating down the river, I've never waded so far across the river before, the water was nearly to the top of my chesties, I did manage to recover there ball - to there delight. A little boy had been throwing stones into the river further up, so I waded much further up river to beat 3 there were a few rises and very quickly caught 2 very good sized brownies and 2 Grayling, before calling it a day.

Saturday 3rd September 2011

Well this last week has been rather busy doing jobs at home, so this morning I booked beats 9/10 for the afternoon, the conditions rather good very little wind and plenty of fish rising as I waded up beat 9, I very quickly connected with a rather large Rainbow on a olive F Fly one of
my favorite flies as Baslowfisher would say, I dispatched it and thought I would have it for tea.
I very quickly caught a another Brownie on the same fly before wading further up the beat to
one of my favorite stops where a changed flies to a Olive Upright and caugth 3 more good sized
Grayling I only fished for about 2 hours but I really enjoyed the afternoon. Going to the Country Fair at Chatsworth tomorrow which is the last day.

Friday 2nd September 2011

Well Derwentflyfisher is back from his holidays in Kos in Greece now and been catching up with
a few home jobs over the last few days but managed to fish on beats 2/3 this afternoon for couple
of hours and lost a good sized Brownie first before catching two more Brownies on a black Dry Fly
with a white post, the first 1 and Half hours were wind free but the wind got up again and so I decided to call it a day, so I could finish my project on the back patio. It's funny when I've been
away on holiday and not fished for a couple of weeks it's great to be back in the river fishing again.