All fish were caught on waggler fished maggot.
A nice bag of roach and dace from the Top stretch.
Nice chub taken on stick float tactics by Elliott Boam today.
Great sport on the float, on the club’s stretch of River Derwent
River Derwent – new season captures June 2018
Alfreton-based angler and BDAC member, Andrew Kennedy, enjoyed a great early morning float fishing session on our stretch of the River Derwent near Belper last week, showing the river’s potential for both coarse and game species.
He sent us details of his session using our catch report & photo form and had the following to say:
“I had a really enjoyable session on the Derwent last Saturday morning, before work. I got off the mark for the season with no less than 5 species! With chub, trout, barbel, perch and grayling all caught. I landed a total of 4 chub, ranging from 3lb to a specimen chub just shy of 5lb; all on the float. Most fish took trotted caster or worm, with the barbel taking a banded pellet on swimfeeder. Great fun and just reward for a dawn start!”
You can fish our length of the Derbyshire Derwent on both season permit and day ticket.
Have you been catching on BDAC waters? Please send us details of your captures, with photos too if possible. You can choose whether the information you send us is kept private by the club, or made public on our website.
Information on all captures is helpful to the club because it helps us to monitor fish stocks and growth rates on our venues.
River Derwent fishing peg improvements – new platforms installed at Belper
Over the weekend the club has been working hard making improvements to fishing pegs on our stretch of the River Derwent at Belper.
Club and committee members made a fantastic contribution to river access during the club’s latest work party. Some of our wooden fishing platforms were rotten and in disrepair, so our team worked tirelessly to remove the old platforms and replace them with two brand-new platforms.
These platforms allow anglers to float fish the river with ease, as they move the peg out several feet from the bank. Of course, this benefits leger and swimfeeder fishermen too, but this extra distance from the bank makes float control whilst trotting so much easier.
These platforms also benefit anglers with reduced mobility, providing a safe, flat and comfortable platform to enable bank fishing for all.
These peg improvements are the latest part of our wider work to improve river access and fishing pegs along our most popular stretches of the Derbyshire Derwent. We’ll provide further updates as and when more improvements are made. If you’re a club member who would like to provide your time to help on future work parties, please get in touch.