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.

Saturday 3rd March 2012

Well the next time we can fish on the River Derwent in Derbyshire will be the 1st April, which is
the first day of the Brown Trout season. John & I carried our duties today in River Monitoring on beat 6 and we had 100 number Flat bodied up wing(Heptageniidae) the most we have ever had for sampling. The weather this morning was rather pleasant the sun was out and the river looked in great condition.

Sarurday 4th February 2012

Well today John & I carried out our river monitoring task, its the first time in 2 months that
we have been able to carry it out as the river Derwent has been running so fast with all the rain
in December and January. The temperature today was -2.5% it was very cold on your hands.

Sunday 14th January

Well we had so much rain during December i just wanted to try our my renovated Aerial Trotting reel, so today David & I booked beats 2/3. David is Chairman of the River committee of our club and a very good friend. The temperture was about 4 under and quite frosty. The water was clear we both fished for about 2 hours but neither of us connected with any Grayling. We finished at about 16.00 we had a drink then we both headed for home. It was just great to be in the river, when I haven't fished for a while you miss it very much !!!!!

31st December 2011

To all followers of the Derwentflyfisher blog

I wish you all a happy and safe New Year for 2012.

Tight lines from Derwentflyfisher

Saturday 26th November 2011

The months are passing very quickly at the moment so it was time to meet up with John again
to carry out River Monitoring on the Derwent, the river looked in very good condition the water
was very clear and there wasn't so many leaves coming down the river. We both had things to do afterwards so we didn't have a fish after the Monitoring.

Sunday 20th November 2011

Today we had the Grayling Society on beats 2 to 10 on the DFFC club water for their Grayling Day on the River Derwent, they also had 10 fisherman on Bubnell Fishing Fishing club water as well. We all meet in the Bridge Inn for Coffee at 9.00 -Brian Clark organised the day very well for all the fishermen who had come from all over. The catch returns showed that plenty of fish were caught on both parts of the Derwent. At around 16.00 most of the fishermen had returned to the Bridge Inn for soup and a meal to finish off the day. It was good to see so many fishermen having a good time.