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Watch in HD. A quick fishing session in the Derwent near my home.
This video was filmed in June 2012 and I put it together from a couple of short sessions when there were a few mayfly hatching.
The river had been high for weeks and had dropped down to about 1' over its normal level.
I was using a 7' Hardy smuggler 6 piece rod with weight 4 floating line and 2lb nylon which was about 10' long.
It had been a long time since I used any rod so my casting wasn't perfect but still produced the goods.
There was loads of high vegetation on the river bank so putting a nice straight line out was difficult as I has to lift the backcast up over the obstructions which did claim a couple of flies.
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Hello there welcome to another very short fishing expedition.
I've got probably about an hour and
the river believe it
or not was about another 18 inches higher than it is now. It's still
above its normal level.
We've had a couple of weeks of rain and it's dropped quite a long
way down and it's started to clear now
and this is about two o'clock in the afternoon
and there's a hell of a lot of mayflies
hatching. Unfortunately I don't think
I've got any mayfly patterns
but I'm going to give it a bash with what I've got.
I'm actually using a very small upwing olive dry fly,
you never know it might tempt them.
That's what I'm using,
maybe it's a bit late in the year for using this.
That's all I've got,
it's probably only about size 14 maybe 16, a very small fly,
but I'm going to give it a bash, been a fish rising just out here,
so that's the first one I'm going to go for.
I think this little fella
is just too small, so I'm going
to have a look through my box,
see if I can find anything a little bit bigger.
Well this is the only mayfly sort of pattern that I've got on my box,
Looks like it's seen a bit of work.
It's about knackered.
I would imagine it would be still good for about a dozen or so casts,
so I'm going to give it a go.
There's the first one.
Nice little brownie.
Very greedy little fish.
Took that big fly, no problem at all.
Slipped him back.
Just managed to lose that fly that I caught the fish on.
So I'm going to have to get back into the box again,
try and find a substitute.
Really scraping the barrel now.
This one's actually a fly I tied about 15 years ago
when I was banging the fishing.
It's an upside down.
Well, it's an upside-down mayfly of sorts, or olive, reasonably big,
I think it's size 12, looks like a shrimp hook, and the idea behind
this was that it would land upside down and the hook would
be in the air instead of in the water, but I'll give it a go.
Well, that was unexpected, I literally just dropped it
in the water in front of us, and the fish took it straight away,
another little brownie, he can go back as well,
well that's good, that's a very good start for that fly,
hopefully I won't lose this one behind me, I'm going to try
a little bit further down, there's a few fish rising there.
The back cast down there is very, very difficult.
There's overhanging trees above me.
There's a big bank side with long grasses,
and I'm firing it to the other side of the river,
so I'm gonna have to be very careful
not to lose any flies there.
I'm using quite an old rod, it's about 20 years old.
It's a six-piece, seven-foot hardy smuggler
with pretty old reel, old line.
The only thing that's new,
there's another fish just risen down there as well,
so there's a few fish about now, it's not too bad.
The only thing that's new is the nylon and the fly.
Can't risk that snapping.
That was a mayfly just getting eaten by a fish.
Now I've got a tree behind me
and the vegetation is very high on the bank side
but it's not too bad.
It could be worse.
I've got the
fly stuck
in the tree.
It really is an awful get in here.
I've got a tree behind me.
Bushy fella here.
I've got all sorts behind me.
It's just awful.
And I've got it stuck in an overhanging tree
just down next to me.
It's worth getting wet for though.
Well that was deeper than it looked.
I've managed to find a bit where I can cast.
Right down by the side of the river.
That was a canny fish, probably is within range as well.
I would have to drift the fly down to it, but it's worth a go.
There's an overhanging tree just here on my side of the river.
There's been a few fish rising there
as well, so that's a really easy cast.
I shouldn't manage to get the fly tangled behind me.
Providing I can keep the fly rod anything away from vertical,
i.e. keep the fly line over the river, up above me,
I should be able to fire it far enough downstream
without getting it tangled in the trees.
Well, that didn't take long. First cast.
Let it go down to where I'd seen the fish rise, and it's on.
This one's a much bonnier fish.
Look at the spots on that fella.
Beautiful.
Probably's about 9-10 inches long.
Not very big.
He's going to go back as well.
In fact, I put them all back.
Doesn't matter what size they are.
There he goes.
Try and catch another one.
Fly's still looking pretty good, but it's not floating very well.
So it's going to get a little bit more
floating to keep it high in the water.
Fish seem to prefer that.
Whoa, that was an awesome cast.
Put it into the...
Oh, it's come off.
Put it into the trees in front of us.
Flicked it back over my shoulder upstream and got one up there,
but unfortunately it got off because I was talking to the camera.
I'm going to call it a day at this particular pool.
Have a look a little bit further down.
I'm going to try and find a bit of a current, some rapids.
I always find it easier to catch fish
when there's a good bit of current.
Just drop it on them.
They generally take.
They can't see you as well because the water is pretty clear here.
I've probably had a good 10 minutes, quarter of an hour in here.
I haven't seen a fish rise.
Loads of mayflies on the water.
But as far as fish goes, absolutely nothing.
They may have gorged themselves earlier on,
but I would still expect to have seen something in here.
It's normally a very good pool.
Yeah, so I'm going to give up on this one,
go down a little bit further.
Plenty of mayflies on the water.
Plenty of fish rising as well, but the better ones seem to be
probably right at the limit of my casting range.
I'm only using a little 7-foot rod.
It's great as a caster.
Nearly had one. Nearly.
Well,
it was
second
time
lucky
with
that one.
Another one rising just where this one came from as well,
so there's a good chance of getting a doubler here.
Another little wild brownie, about 9-10 inches.
Now where I'm casting it to, there's a submerged rock,
which means that the current gets dragged all over the place,
which in turn affects the fly line.
That's why I'm mending the fly line as soon as I'm casting.
It's a little bit better, that one.
Another nice little fish.
Tiny
little
one,
that
one.
Probably is about 7 inches.
And
some,
isn't
it?
Lovely one.
There's a beautiful brown trout caught on a little dry fly.
The fins on that fella, lovely.
Absolutely beautiful.
Now he goes back where he belongs.
So I've come back.
In my pond, I'm going to try and catch one of the rainbow trout
in here, just to show you what sort of condition they're in.
Right, I've got something.
Ordinarily, you'd want to put the fly
as gently as possible on the water,
but I just slapped it on as if it was a pellet going in the water.
Right, well, that isn't what I was after.
It's actually a roach.
No, a rud.
Beautiful little fish.
Better chuck him back.
Well, that wasn't bad, but it wasn't a trout.
