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A Lesson On The Derwent And A Holiday On The Wolds

theretroangler

Aug 31, 2016

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Updated: Sep 11

Kev Hales is showing me how it's done.

August 4 at Beechwood with a mate, who was after the Carp on his hair-rigged Polish sausage, which worked well and saw him catch some nice fish. I caught plenty of Roach, Rudd and a few Carp up to about 4lb.

On the evening of 10 August, I fished on the River Derwent, having a lesson with Kev Hales, Clive and John from Alfreton Angling, along with fellow Earl member, Tim Baker. We learned some great tips and caught Dace, Roach, and small Chub; Tim also caught some Grayling and Trout. We both caught loads of Minnows, and it was a great evening. I’m not very confident at river fishing, but the session helped me understand rigs, improved my watercraft, and I’ll definitely be going back to the Derwent to put what I learned into practice.

With some maggots left over from my lesson on the Derwent, I went on the cut at Willington on 11 August, going a bit further downstream where I found a nice spot next to a moored boat. I threw in some casters and red maggots, and caught loads of Perch, including some good-sized ones, some Roach and Rudd, some quite big Bream and a Ruff. For the last hour I went onto a light leger and continued to catch Perch and Bream. A great late afternoon, early evening session.

On 15 August I was back on the canal at Willington with my Nephew for his first session on the cut. We went back to the same spot I fished the previous session and the narrow boat was still there, which I hoped was a good sign. It was a hot day with temperatures reaching 24 degrees and hardly any wind. As I set up, my Nephew started catching and continued to catch plenty of Perch, including some up to nearly a pound, which he was very pleased with, a few Roach and his first Gudgeon, which he wasn’t sure what to make of until I told him it was a good size! He landed 19 fish in all - he’s a numbers man. I also caught a good variety of fish, including a few Bream, on a good afternoon session.

I spent a week at Poachers' Hideaway in Lincolnshire for the last week of August and experienced some lovely, peaceful and relaxing surroundings fishing in the Lincolnshire Wolds. I fished at different times of day from early morning to dusk and caught some lovely Roach and Carp in pristine condition on the waggler, using maggots, worms and some tares. There were only two other anglers fishing while I was there, and they were both nice blokes fishing simple methods. It was a great, relaxing holiday in a lovely part of the world with some nice places to visit between fishing.