Sunday 1 April 2012

Today was the first day of our new season on our section of the River Derwent. So I left home about 12.00 and had my lunch in the car park at Grindleford, the sun was very pleasant sitting
on the wall. I started on beat 2 with a Knickhamer dry with a little nymph on the end- new zealand style. there wasn't a lot of fly life about this afternoon my first fish was a Grayling which took the
Knickhamer I waded up the river to where the first hut is and changed my fly for a Large dark Olive dry and very quickly connected with a good size Rainbow Trout which i released back into the river and then the next fish was a good size Brownie so I felt rather pleased catching one of each on the first day. I then walked back to the car and drove up to Beat 7 and introduced myself
to one of the new members.