Ecclesbourne,Hazelwood,14th may

Fished the ecclesbourne this afternoon .
Started on the dcac stretch near cowers lane
the fishing was quite hard in the shallow clear
water .Did see a few fish but they were very
shy and even with a stealthy approach they
soon skitted off upstream.this will be a good
venue when the improvments are finished.

Later i visited the drac stretch just above hazelwood near
duffield.After a bit of a trek across a field i found the start
of the stretch.I began with a danger baby nymph as
their were some nice looking pools but i didnt see nothing
rising.worked my way down this stream with no takes
or signs of fish then after a while in the pool pictured
above my fly line stabbed upstream i struck and
played this hard fighting trout to the net after scrambling
down to the stream side amongst the nettles (sting strong)
Met another angler who was working downstream
whilst i was going upstream he turned out to be the
chaiman (i think)of the club he was very helpful and
supplied me with one of his flies which after 4 or 5 casts
i lost.this is quite a challenging place but quite a good
workout ,i shall be back soon.