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.

31/10/07 Willersly castle

Managed a few hours fly fishing at willersly castle
this afternoon.Started off using a pink grayling bug
but not much happening.Noticed a few fish feeding
at the surface.Tied up a leader for dry fly with a F fly
at the point.On the third cast about half way across
a grayling took and gave a good account for is size.
Moved below the bridge where i noticed some BWO
coming off,tied one on and caught the smallest but
most perfect grayling i have seen for ages.On filling
in my return in the box i noticed that them using bait
had a very good day.

21/10/07 carsington water

fished our club match on closing day.

Carsington Match Report - 21st October, 2007
This was the last day at Carsington and our final match of the season. We were greeted by Tony who offered tea and mince pies; he then spelled out fishery rules and where not to fish etc. and warned us of icy jetty and slippery boats.We went forth in fog and a flat calm which was very eerie, did not see any fish rise and of course not a boat in sight. Soon after 9.30am the Sun peeped through and one could see people walking along the dam wall and another boat or two! Flies on the day - Rosemary caught a nice fish as the Sun appeared and a tiny ripple started. A floating line orange/yellow Blob on the dropper, Melvyn followed suit and we then caught on Black Nomads, thereafter life became very hard for us, losing one or two and just having odd plucks.The rest caught up using Black & Green Fritz on intermediate lines, and some fast sink and Orange Boobies. Terry had a golden patch about 2.30pm with Gold Headed Olive Fritz on intermediate, having not had a pull all day. It was great to have a good turn out and see some new names in the first 6, plus others having a go for the first time. Congratulations to Paul winning his first Colwick FFC match.

16/10/07 River Derwent (willersly castle)

Fished with my brother(owd big ed) at willersly castle. We fished mainly at the weir behind masson millretail outlet.caught loads of grayling plus one or two surprise fish.I got a nice chub over three pounds falling to double yellow maggot.then my bros rod bent into something quite big after a spirited fight a barbel pushing 5lbs came to the net. Caught a nice wildrainbow which was released unharmed.Didnt manage to catch a rainbow on the fly maybe next year.

28/10/07 River Dove

Fished on the river dove this afternoon.Chose to use trotting with red maggot as the prefered method.The grayling at first seemed impartial to mydouble maggot offering on a size 14 so i scaled it down to a size 20 with just one wee maggot.The fish started to come on with some nice grayling coming to the net .I only caught 3 browns which were swiftly released back Unharmed. Best grayling went just over a pound pictured above.