I could barely force myself to have a cup of coffee before racing across Derbyshire to Rowsley and get my ticket. Talked to a couple of guys in the car park, they were waiting for Bernie Maher to arrive for a first time on the river guided day, what a river to pick.
Collected the ticket and had a walk over to the mill stretch. A lovely piece of water and seeing a couple of lunkers in the mill race added to the anticipation.
Within the hour fell the first wild wye rainbow, about 9-10 inches and PERFECT !!
A few more cast at fish but they were not slightly interested even the ones in the shade of the trees. An executive decision to move up the beat to the fishermans car park and explore !!
From the car park (6) on the map, we fished up stream over the bridge and through the woods. Lots of fish rising, but only small, changed the fly to a elk winged olive and the little blighters wouldn't leave it alone. The small little fiesty rainbows were really aggresive. out of the woods about 100 yards and a perfect 12" grayling took my fly just as it started to swing and drag. A real cracker of a fish and a suberb fight in the current.
Lots of cracking rainbows later after a whole afternoon of chasing the hat trick..........a beautiful mini wild brown trout fell to the elk hair olive. Small with beautiful red spotted Wye brownine.
The first trip to the Wye on the haddon estate......but not the last.
Tight lines
TT
Enjoyed the blog Phil, keep it up.
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