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.