Mid June 2008

River sport is currrently great on Derbyshire's Wye, with an excellent Mayfly season and good hatches in general. We are currently blessed with good water conditions, providing great oportunities for sight fishing to both wild rainbow and brown trout.

Stillwater fishing has been unpredictable during the last few days, some days fish have really switched on, while others have provided a real challenge. At Watermark plenty have fish have been moving, however either a long cast or taking to boats has brought most success. This is extremely odd for this water which usually provides prolific margin fishing. Loynton has also been patchy, while Carsington has on the whole fished very well indeed. Top flies for the lakes overall have been buzzers, small fry patterns, black taddy and damsels.

Lots of damsel flies around the lakes now and the peak emergence is yet to come! Look out for our top damsel fishing tips in our summer newsletter due out latter this month. (Sign up here if you have not already!) That reminds me it's already late, not enough hours in the day at the moment.

Tight Lines

Steve