16/11/2007 willersly castle

Made a early start at willersly castle around about nine
o'clock.on arriving we had a sneaky look from the bridge
adjacent too the car parking seeing that the river was very
low indeed and clear.
Set up at the weir with a duo of a large stimulator with a
tungsten pink bug on the point.there was not much action
in the first couple of hours or so then john put a fish egg
pattern on and got into the fish straight away.
i switched over to a egg fly and also got instant success
leaving the egg fly on all day catching 15 grayling the
best pictured below.

The water is really getting very cold now even with

neoprene's and two pair's of socks on my toes were

freezing.

It was very nice getting out now and again to have a love'ly

warm drink and get the blood pumping through my toe's

again.

John took advantage of my last guest ticket and made the

most of it catching some nice fish all in all a good day.

14/11/2007 Whatstandwell ,Derwent hotel

Fished the day ticket water at the derwent hotel this
afternoon and boy is it getting cold when wading.
The picture above shows john smith upstream nymphing
with a grayling pink bug.


The price of the day tickets as gone up again to a whole
£5 (good value) Above is the upper limits of the beat
adjacent to the weir.Managed a trout on a hare's ear
varient dubbed with the fine silver fur from my mooses's
cat.


I think i will leave this stretch alone till next summer as
not a lot of signs of them silver ladies.

11/11/2007 Ellastone (dove and mill brook)

Arrived at ellastone mid-morning on looking at the river
it appeared in good condition .Started off with a large
dry as a indicator with two small weighted nymphs
underneath tied on new zealand style.All the fish that
i caught (all grayling) were on the point nymph being
a pink bug tied on a 18 wet hook with a 2mm tungsten
bead .
I could not beleave how busy this small stretch was
with some sort of social fishing outing going off on
the opposite bank.Spoke to several of the anglers who
reported catching browns,grayling and rainbows
probably in that order.

Later in the afternoon ventured up the tiny mill brook

(above) looking for likely spots to run a nymph through.

I had a few takes and actually managed to hook one

for a few seconds but to no avail as it slipped off never

to be seen again so i walked back down to the main river

to be greeted with a rising chocolate coloured dove.

Tried a few half hearted cast's but soon realised that

the day was done.