River Derwent.

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Sunday 2nd September. Darley Abbey.



Im on the bank for around 7:30am.
The river is running alittle high with a touch of colour. This small section of the river runs fast & quite deep so i stick to my usual method & bang on a team of tungstan nymphs under an indicator.




The river spills over from deeper water above down onto the stone apron below then into knee to waist high water that forms a couple of pools & slacks that are mainly home to Grayling with the odd trout thrown up from time to time along with some cracking Barbel to the bait boys.





After a dozen small Grayling to get me in the mood, this sweetheart gracie's me. A fish of 3/4 lbs on the last cast of the morning. 1/2 to 3/4 lbs is what can be expected from this section of the river. A fish of 1 lb is not uncommon & i've had Grayling in the 2-3 lbs bracket before, but that was many years ago.
All this mornings fish caught on a combination of my cased caddis & hot pink head shrimp.




Fly of the morning. The Pink Hot Head Shrimp. This fly seemed to outfish all others regardless of where i put it on the cast?




Fish sit just about everywhere here. The slack behind the boulder in the middle of the shot is very good, but sits in around 3ft of water & you have to get down very quickly to be in the taking zone, some good long hangs are to be had if you get the current right. All credit here to the T rod with its extra reach. I have taken some very large Grayling from this swim over the years & they feel like your connected to a train in this strong current. I would of loved to have hooked up with one of these beauties this morning. Another time ay!

I finish the morning a happy man. Smelling of grayling & the river.
I walk the dog along the riverbank in Darley park for an hour or so then pop into the Abbey for a pint.




Darley Abbey.

Bulit in the 12th century.

Now a public house, selling guest beers & real ale.
A wonderful place for a pint after a session on the river.

Regards Stevie.

[leckie]

Stevie,

Nice report...with great variety of shots...river, fly, fish and pub...magic...one of these days you're going to nail one of these big barbel on your T rod...then we'll see how you get on landing that ;D

tight lines

Alex

[paul1966]

Great pics and report

[custheyder]

Lovely bit of water and a fine place for refreshment. Interesting looking fly as well. I can't wait for November when I'm on the grayling again.

[fdking]

On Monday morning I finally tried Tenkara on the Cromford FF water below Matlock Bath. There were few fish rising and a bit of a breeze so I decided to try short line nymphing with my 13ft rod, using a 15ft level line, then 3 ft to the first nymph and 2 ft to the next (fish them closer together?). I fished a series of fast water stretches at the upper end of their stretch, from what they call the pipe bridge down to Beckett's Weir. Unfortunately , my fishing was hampered by overhanging trees that covered the shallow water, restricting access with the long rod (there are other stretches which are clearer). However, I did manage to catch a few wild browns and grayling. I finished off running my nymphs in the shallow clear water between weedbeds at the signal box rapids, expecting to catch a few more small grayling. However I hooked a 3lb trout from 1 ft of water! I was playing it quite successfully until it decided to wrap my line round the weeds! Unfortunately, I haven't got any pictures.