28/09 Trent

Started slowly, not confident in my first swim so moved to where I had fished the last couple of times as its a bit deeper. No bites at all on maggot, three perch to about 1 3/4lb on worms.

2 bream and a barbel later on (21:25), didnt weigh it as scales not working but looked like the 9lb 9 from the other night. Time to give this swim a rest.

26/09 Trent

Unsurprisingly I returned to the swim I fished the other night with a couple of refinements which seemed to work as no lost fish. Quite productive as 5 barbel - 9lb 9oz at 19:00, 8lb 14oz 19:35, small ones at 19:55 and 20:55 and a 10lb 9oz @ 21:05. One bream estimated at 8lb, weighed at 7lb 8oz so not too far out.

24/09 Trent

Found a nice deep swim with the main flow towards the other side, weed much less of an issue than the other night. Started off OK, a bream, a 9lb 7oz barbel (20:35) and a chub then started losing fish....first a phantom bite, then hooklength snapped and finally one came off after about 1 second. Definate potential in this one though.

22/09 Trent

New ticket, new area, same old problem with weed. Hooked and lost a good fish, I blamed the backlead. Nice to know theres at least one fish about there.

20/09 Derwent

Another 'old' stretch that I used to fish, must be having some sort of midlife crisis visiting all my old haunts...
Cant remember catching a barbel from this area
in the past, did tonight though. 12lb 0oz @ 20:35, nice conditioned deep fish.
Levels still low despite the days rain.

18/09 Derwent

Back to an old favourite stretch and swim of mine, not fished it since about 2000. Nice to see theres still some barbel about, allbeit a baby one (18:45). As I didnt catch at all in a more favoured area Friday this place deserves another go.

16/09 Derwent

Slight change of scenery, had caught a few fish here earlier in the season though. Nothing this evening, only a couple of very small knocks. River lower than ever, hopefully some proper rain will sort it out.

10/11 Derwent

A lovely evening to be out. If you like wind and torrential downpours. Fortunately we missed a lot of it due to lateness. 2 barbel of about 6 or 7lb at 20:45 and 22:15. My accomplice was less fortunate in being snapped by one fish but he did manage to land a roach.

09/09 Trent

A bit of a quiet one, 2 fish - one bream and a 5lb 4oz chub. Nothing of any size showing and not much caught by anyone else there. Actually thought the chub was a bit bigger but apparently the scales never lie.

07/09 Derwent

A few perch to start with but nothing much bigger than a pound and a bit. Even tried a 'big roach' as bait but no takers on that one. Micro chublets = small perch again.

Switched over to the 2 barbel rods later on. Just the one chub about 4lb and lost a babrbel @ 21:35 to a hook pull. Was only on for a few seconds.

29/08 Trent

Struggled to catch a suitable sized livebait for perch...just skimmers and perch. Got in the car and moved a bit further downstream where I could catch decent livebaits...but only 1 dropped take and this little one at the end.

27/08 Trent

River very much fishable despite the bit of extra water - it was only a bit of extra water. Starting fishing at 7 I had lost 2 fish by 7.15, one to mainline snapping and the other to hooklink snappage. The 2nd one felt quite decent as well. A bunch of smaller barbel after between to about 3 and 7lb (times of 20:00, 21:10, 21:35, 22:35 and 23:00), 3 chub (to 5lb 5oz) and 1 bream (oh well...).

26/08 Derwent

First bit of rain for a while - would have been a shame not to get out. Bit of an eventful one, 1st fish at 19:25 pulled my rod in, managed to jump in and grab rod and land barbel, 9lb 7oz. Had some spare clothes and golf shoes in the car, got changed and carried on. 8lbers @ 21:00 and 22:35 before 11lb 5oz barbel @ 22:55, just a really long fish.

22/08 Trent

Was looking good with a few fish topping and some possitive reports from the locals. First real action a barbel, all of about 3lb at 21:35....relatively quiet for the next hour or so apart from a few knocks (which were possibly the bats as well as fish), before I hooked into something a bit more serious. Unfortunately it took me into an unseen underwater snag and that was that. Called it a day not long after that.

17/08 Trent

Same stretch but a bit further up. The 7 or 8 micro-chublets I caught as livebaits didnt last long...caught 6 or 7 perch up to about a pound or so and a pikelet. Bigger livebaits next time methinks.

15/08 Derwent

Having walked past this spot loads of times and never fished it, pleased to have actually got round to it tonight.

2 jacks and 2 perch, the bigger of the 2 perch weighing 2lb 5oz and the other about the 2lb mark. Definate potential here just not easy to fish due to the big drop to the river. Maybe fishing the other side could work.

12/08 Trent

Why fish for barbel and catch bream when you can just fish for bream. 4 bream, 5-6lb range. Might have caught more if I'd been barbelling...just took a while to get going.

Caught 1 small perch on livebait and had several missed takes.

09/08 Trent

Went out with the intention of fishing one swim. Got there and decided to fish a different one. One jack whilst waiting for something to happen on the barbel rods. One bream. Lost 3 feeders - bad swim choice.

05/08 Derwent

An interesting loooking area not too from home, supposed to hold some big fish although not many of them. No bites or knocks to either of us on pellets/ boilies. Maggot feeder accounted for 3 minnows a small perch and a brownie of about a pound.

04/08 Trent

Not the intended species but at least fish were caught. One small jack and a lost jack before the bream moved in. 8 in the 6-7lb range and one smaller one. Number 10 dropped off part way in. Sometimes if you can find the bream the barbel aren't far away. They were tonight.