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4th July 20204th November 2020

Early Season Captures from the River Derwent

River Derwent 4lb+ specimen wild brown trout

Below is a selection of captures we’ve been sent from our Belper sections of the Derbyshire Derwent – over the first few weeks of the 2020/21 season.

These include a couple of great nets of fish, a stonking river roach, specimen brown trout & grayling, lure caught pike, bream… even an ide! Showcasing just what a fantastic mixed fishery we’re blessed with here, on the Derwent:

Bream & perch bag opening day Derbyshire Derwent

Specimen roach from River Derwent at Belper

If you’d like to send us details & photos of a specimen, bag of fish, or rare capture or sighting from our waters, please use our catch report page to send them to us.

16th June 202017th November 2020

Great opening day catch for Elliott from the river.

Club regular Elliott Boam landed this brilliant mixed bag of bream, perch, roach & dace from the Derwent, on the first day of the 2020/21 season. 🎣

17th May 202017th November 2020

Some lovely fish caught today on Wyver Lane Pond.

Bream are responding to bread & corn and this cracking tench was taken on worm.

Bream - Wyver Lane Pond Belper — Wyver Lane Pond tench

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BDAC Facebook – Adrian Scott – Wyver Lane Bream – 20200517
BDAC Facebook – Jamie Roe – Wyver Lane tench – 20200517

30th November 201717th April 2018

Environment Agency netting of Wyver Lane Pond

A 20lb+ specimen carp netted by the EA from Wyver Lane Pond, Belper AC

This month, the Environment Agency visited our mixed coarse & carp stillwater fishery, Wyver Lane Pond at Belper, to conduct a netting exercise. The purpose of this was to evaluate & health check our fish stocks and to provide valuable insight for any future stockings of the pond.

As we expected, the netting produced a real mixed bag! Carp to over 20lb were caught, as well as thousands of roach, dace, skimmers & perch. There were also a few larger bream (“slabs”), good tench, a few pike… even a Tommy Ruffe!

Netting a fishery is known as a good indicator to the stock levels of a fishery, but it is notoriously difficult and fraught with problems including the net snagging, fish escaping from the net and fish taking refuge around obstructions and other inaccessible areas. Despite this, we recorded a healthy number of fish and several scale samples were taken away to be tested.

Click on the following thumbnails to view pictures from the day, showing the netting process by EA Fisheries Officers and some of the fish caught:

Wyver Lane Pond is our members-only lake, which is open for all annual members to fish during daylight hours. There is also a night fishing ticket available, but numbers of these are very limited. Click here for more information on fishing Wyver Lane Pond.