Wednesday 30 May 2012

Managed to get home early tonight so I booked beat 21 which is the tp beat just past Bamford, on my way up to beat 21 I called in on beat 17 there wasn't much activity I caught a small brownie but lost it, so I made my
way up to beat 21 and parked just below the Yorkshire Bridge pub and then walked to the bottom of beat 21
and waded up the beat, and caught 3 good sized Brownies as I waded up the beat. My dog always looks at me around the time of 20.00 as he knows it is time for his walk. So I headed for home to take him out. 

Sunday 27 May 2012

This morning I cut the lawn and trimmed the hedge before setting off to find a members landing net which had been left behind yesterday. Well I found it and rang him to say where I had left it. I then drove down to beat 17
with all this sun there were not many fish rising today, i waded up the beat with a LDO on and very quickly caught a rather good sized Brownie and then lost a another Brownie soon afterwards.I finished about a hour
later and headed for home as i've got some tasks to do before the end of the month.   

Saturday 26 May 2012

Well today John & I carried out our task of River Monitoring on Beat 6/7 it was very sunny and warm
this morning we started about 10.30 and finished about 12.00 most of these two beats are in direct sun light
the odd fish were rising I fished for about half on hour but didn't catch any thing.  I just wonder if the stocking
we carried out and after all the very heavy rain that a lot of the fish have been carried down the river.

Thursday 24 May 2012

I've had rather a long day today with my MD, I managed to get to beat 4 & 5 for about 7.00
tonight there were a few fish rising these two beats are not my favourite beats, and I waded up from
the start of beat 4 and cast to one ot two rising fish but no success at all this evening. I need to redo my
leader and tippet on my rod. I will try this weekend again

Sunday 20 May 2012

The Derwent Fly Fishing Club was invited by the Bamford Recreation Trust to attend there Jubilee
celebrations this afternoon at the Bamford Recreation area off Water Lane Bamford. We arrived about
10.30 this morning to set up the tent and table and chairs in a suitable position near to Beat 17. There
Celebrations started at 12.00, the Chairman of our club and myself started tying flies and John Watson
carried out the river monitoring, we also did casting on the grass because there were to many tree down
by the waters edge.Thee were lots of people attending the occasion and a lot of interest in our Fly tying.
At 15.00 I put on my waders and just fished for 10 mins and caught 3 nice sized Brownies very quickly
I've not fished beat 17 before but I will certainly go again It's a really good spot. A very enjoyable afternoon.

Saturday 12 May 2012

I've been on my own today as my wife went to York to see my daughter so I booked beat 9 and meet
up with 4 other members at the hut so we all had our lunch together before we all started fishing. The river
is still running hard form all the rain, I had a small gold head green Nymph on caught a nice sized Grayling
and a small Brownie in one of my favourite spots I only fished a about 2 hours there were quite a few LDO flying around and a large quantity of Orange tip Butterflies I've never seeen so many in one day. There was also a family of Canada Geese with four chicks that waited until I finished before heading up river. I just
wish it would stop raining so the river could return to normal. I called in on Baslowfisher on my way home and had a beer with him in the Garden- very enjoyable !!   

Sunday 6 May 2012

This morning we went down the Motorway to Junction 28 and visited the Mansfield Outlet I had booked beat 14 but because I was a bit late back I changed it beat 3 I didn't get down to the river until 15.30 there
were still quite a few LDO flying around and on the water so I put on a LDO size 16 again and very quicl;y
caught a nice sized Grayling I continued to wade up the beat and just before the waterfall and connected
with a nice Brownie which jumped out of the water a couple of times before I released it, I only fished for
about 1 hour as I wanted to get back to cut the grass as the forecast for tomorrow is rain all day. 

Saturday 5 May 2012

I didn't get down to the river until 14.00 today on beat 2, the river was very clear today but there was
still a lot of water coming down and the water level was still high. Today was the first day I spotted so
many LDO flying around and on the water.I started just above Grindleford Bridge with a green Nymph
and caught two nice sized Brownies fairly quickly. I then waded up the river past the hut to one of my
favourite places, and changed my fly to a size16 LDO I connected with 2 fish but lost them. The weather
started to rain and it was still rather cold so i called it a day. The local farmer had all his sheep and lambs
in a compound near to the hut so a stopped and had a chat him them all as I walked back to my car.