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13 fished a very tricky match. The pond was very cold with an influx of river water and the first frost of the season this week. Many struggled for bites,
1st Tom Webster 4lb 12oz, peg 19 – caught 4 net skimmers and a few bits on the tip
2nd Adi Ingram 2lb 12oz, peg 8 – 25 fish on the pole
3rd Phil Hoad 2lb, peg 17
24-10-21 – Wyver Lane Pond match results
1st Thomas Webster 4lb 10oz, peg 10
2nd Peter Doran 4lb 9oz, peg 18
3rd Rob Green 2lb 15oz, peg 14
Well done to everyone who took part in unfavourable conditions
A big perch featured in Tom Webster’s winning bag
10-10-21 – Wyver Lane Pond match results
1st Tony Carline 29lb 9oz
2nd Adi Ingram 27lb 12oz
3rd Roger Stone 14lb 2oz
4th Martin 9lb 7oz
Section A winner: Thomas Webster 8lb 2oz
Section B winner: Peter Doran 6lb 6oz
Great turnout today of 21 anglers, well done to everyone who took part!
26-09-21 – Wyver Lane Pond match results
A day when many species put in an appearance! Species landed included carp, tench, bream, roach, perch, chub, barbel gudgeon and ruffe.
1st Adi Ingram 18lb 11oz, peg 13
2nd Phil Hoad 16lb 1oz , peg 16
3rd Bryan Woolley 11lb 9oz, peg 18
4th Adam Ingram 10lb 7oz, peg 19
5th Leo Verdi 7lb 15oz, peg 7
6th Peter Doran 7lb 4oz
Bryan Woolley with a nice bag of chub and barbel
Leo with a nice bream and big perch amongst his net
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19-12-21 Phil Smith Memorial Charity match results – River Derwent top stretch (alongside the pond).
Elliott Boam caught 3 grayling, a dace and a few minnows for the win off newly created peg 17.
£80 was raised for charity today. Well done to everyone who took part.
1st Elliott Boam 11oz, peg 17
Joint Second with 10oz: Peter Doran, peg 6 & Stephen Posiak, peg 21
4th Phil Hoad, 8oz peg 2
17-10-21 Roy Melbourne Memorial Match results – River Derwent
Roy was match secretary of Belper Angling Club for over 20 years, he created many pegs on the river with the help of volunteers and his Christmas matches had 160 anglers in attendance.
Results:
1st Martin Jacques 10lb 10oz, peg 6
2nd Steve Posiak 6lb 9oz, peg 3
3rd Gary Wingfield 2lb 9oz, peg 5
4th Mark Gregory 2lb 5oz, peg 22
5th Bryan Woolley 1lb 11oz, peg 2
6th Phil Hall 12oz, peg 12
Well done to everyone who took part.
05-09-21 – River Derwent top stretch (alongside the pond) match results.
Well done to all who fished with tough conditions on a low clear river.
22-08-21 – John Mason Memorial Match results – River Derwent sewerage works section
This years winner is Mark Gregory with a weight of 3lb 5oz from peg 4 above the pontoon bridge. Mark fished waggler and maggot catching roach. £60 was raised for charity, well done to everyone who took part.
09-08-21 – River Derwent top stretch (alongside the pond) match results.
A bit of extra flow but little colour in the river tonight.
1st Sam Wildsmith 4lb 13oz, peg 6 – waggler and maggot.
2nd Terry Gough 2lb 2oz, peg 9 – waggler and maggot.
3rd Tony Carline 2lb 1oz, peg 2 – whip over groundbait with maggot hookbait.
4th Leo Verdi 1lb 15oz, peg 8 – pole and maggot.
5th Bob Harrison 1lb 14oz, peg 5 – waggler and maggot
6th Paul Spencer 1lb 8oz, peg 7 – waggler and maggot
08-08-21 – River Derwent sewerage works section open Match Results
Fished in heavy rainstorms, although the river remained fairly clear and was hard going for most, bites mainly coming in the last hour as the river began to colour up and a bit of extra flow. Winner Martin fished peg 16 with flat float and worm and netted 2 big perch, Mark on peg 12 had 30 roach on waggler and maggot, Paul on peg 17 fished bolo and maggot for a mixture of roach and perch.
1st Martin Jacques 3lb 9oz, peg 16
2nd Mark Gregory 2lb, peg 12
3rd Paul Spencer 1lb 10oz, peg 17
4th Tony Carline 1lb 8oz, peg 11
5th Adam Ingram 1lb 2oz, peg 20
02-08-21 – River Derwent top stretch (alongside the pond) match results.
The rain last week definitely improved sport on the river, some lovely fish caught tonight. Bob Harrison with a roach over a pound on waggler and maggot, Leo fishing the river for the first time also caught a pound plus roach on chopped worm on the pole. Highlight of the match was a 4lb 8oz Ide caught on waggler and maggot by Sam Wildsmith.
Well done to everyone who took part.
1st Sam Wildsmith 10lb 12oz, peg 5
2nd Leo 4lb 14oz, peg 3
3rd Martin Jacques 4lb 4oz, peg 1
26-07-21 – River Derwent top stretch (alongside the pond) match results.
Another close match tonight.
1st Terry Gough with 2lb 12oz from peg 3 – caught on pole
2nd Tony Carline with 2lb 4oz from peg 5 – on waggler
3rd Mark Gregory with 2lb 2oz from peg 1.
25-07-21 – Frank Posiak Memorial Pairs Match results – River Derwent sewerage works section
14 anglers took part in todays memorial match. The hope was that the roach that have been showing would give a good days sport, but today they were notable by their absence. Some nice perch caught and Roger Stone had a good day on the pipe peg number 1, catching roach, perch, grayling and dace.
Overall pairs winners: Roger Stone and Bryan Woolley
Runners up: Mark Gregory and Stefan Harhat
19-07-21 – River Derwent top stretch (alongside the pond) match results.
1st Steve Posiak 3lb 2oz – caught on pole
2nd Terry Gough 2lb 2oz – caught on pole
3rd Sam Wildsmith 2lb 1oz – caught on waggler
Good turnout of 12 anglers and only 2oz separating 2nd, 3rd and 4th
12-07-21 – River Derwent top stretch (alongside the pond) match results.
Nine fished the Monday night match with the river fishing pretty hard with very little colour.
1st Terry Gough 2lb 15 oz, peg 5 – pole over ground bait.
2nd Elliott Boam 2lb 13 oz, peg 4 – pole over ground bait and waggler.
3rd Asa Cooper 2lb 10oz, peg 1 – pole over ground bait.
05-07-21 – River Derwent top stretch (alongside the pond) match results.
1st Elliott Boam 2lb 2oz
2nd Jim Marcer 1lb 9oz
3rd John Nelson 1lb 8oz
Elliott worked hard catching gudgeon on pole over groundbait , also catching some on the waggler further out over loosefeed.
04-07-21 – River Derwent sewerage works section open Match Results
A section
1st Tony Carline 4lb 5oz
2nd Bryan Woolley 4oz
B section
1st Mark Gregory 9lb 9oz
2nd Gary Wingfield 8lb 4oz
28-06-21 – River Derwent top stretch (alongside the pond) match results.
Eight Anglers fished a low clear river this evening with Asa Cooper winning of peg 6 with 6lb 2oz followed by Bob of peg 8 with 4lb 2oz.
Well done to all who fished.
Open match this Sunday on the Sewerage works stretch and Evening match next Monday on Wyver Lane stretch.
Asa Cooper had this to say about the match on Facebook:
Been on Monday night match at Belper on the river at back of pond. Started on the waggler for 10 minutes with no bites. Went on pole at 13 meters catching 81 small Dace 20 odd small roach and 2 gudgeon; all on the pole over groundbait. Three hour match, 6 ‘til 9pm, weighing 6 lb 4 oz to win the match happy days
21-06-21 – River Derwent top stretch (alongside the pond) match results.
The river was still low and clear last night and it fished hard. Pegs 1-8 were fished and all anglers caught.
1st Bob Harrison 4lb 7oz, peg 6
2nd Elliott Boam 3lb 3oz, peg 7
3rd Mark Gregory 1lb 12oz, peg 5
Bob fished the waggler with loosefeed and caught better fish than those who fed groundbait. Groundbait drew in lots of small dace which resulted in lots of missed bites for most.
Anglers have sent us their catch pictures via our catch report page and through Facebook. Here are some of the best we were sent during 2021.
Back in January, Adam Ingram braved the cold on Wyver Lane Pond and had this lovely carp. Caught on single red maggot, size 20 hook, 1lb 8oz hooklength, 3lb mainline, quarter ounce tip, on his 10ft light bomb rod. It went 10lb 10oz:
Adam Ingram with a 10lb+ January carp from Belper
In February, new Committee member Elliott Boam fished the Derwent and landed 4 chub on a mixture of waggler and stick float tactics, with bronze maggots doing the business:
Also in February on the Derwent, Adam Ingram shared a nice bream he caught, as the river looked in great shape for the final weeks of the season:
Adam with his Derwent bream
In May, Tom Dukes fished Wyver Lane Pond and landed this beautiful 17lb 6oz common carp:
Tom Dukes with a 17lb common carp from Wyver Lane Pond in Belper
In June, Philip Shaw also caught a 17lb common from Wyver Lane Pond. It was his first visit to the pond after an absence of 25 years. Not bad for his first btime back! He submitted this photo using the catch report page on the website.
On the first day of the river season, Adam Ingram was back into the bream on the sewerage works section. This cracking fish tipped the scales to 6lb 4oz. Great start to the new season!
Adam with a beautiful 6lb+ Derwent bream
Also in June, venue regular Jonah Cooper found this 6lb+ pike willing to take his sprat, which he’d rigged on a circle hook to ensure the fish could be quickly and safely released. He said of the capture:
“The fish gave me a decent fight and another Pike even followed it in whilst reeling in the hooked fish so that was cool to see.”
The bream continued to show on the Derwent throughout June. Elliott was rewarded with this fine bag of six fish, which included a few lumps:
Thomas Webster had a nice afternoon session on the pond with a nice mixed bag, which included large perch, numerous silver fish, a carp and a barbel. Great fishing!
Jonah returned to the Derwent chasing pike and was rewarded for his nocturnal efforts with this fish. Jonah caught the pike after midnight, having only been fishing for an hour. Lure tactics proved successful this time, with Jonah putting an Abu Garcia 10cm Soft Plastic Trout to good use. As always, Jonah submitted details and photos of his capture using the catch report form.
Jonah Cooper with a Derbyshire Derwent pike caught lure fishing in the dark!
In July, roach were showing well on the sewerage works section of the River Derwent at Belper. This bag of around 150 fish were caught on stick float, with single maggot hookbait over loose-fed hemp and maggots.
A huge bag of prime River Derwent roach caught on trotting tactics
It wasn’t just on the sewerage works stretch producing roach, as John Hargreaves showed with this nice bag of roach and dace caught from the members-only top stretch alongside Wyver Lane pond. All were caught on maggot and waggler tactics.
A mixed bag or roach and dace from the River Derwent at Belper
In August, John was back to bother the silver fish on the top stretch. He put together this nice net of mainly roach and dace from alongside the pond, adding a lovely golden rudd.
John Hargreaves’ mixed net of roach, dace and rudd from the Derbyshire Derwent
Soon after John’s catch, Elliott Boam proved that if silver fish are your quarry, the Derwent was the place to head. It fished superbly throughout August and roach to 1lb+ were caught both pleasure fishing and in matches. Waggler and maggot was the favoured method.
These bags of roach, dace, gudgeon and grayling were caught by Elliott Boam, a regular on club matches and also a member who contributed many hours on work parties last year, improving the pegs on the river.
Bailiff, Andrew Kennedy, wanted in on some action after being unable to fish much during the season. He visited the river at dawn for a three-hour session and had this to say about his experience:
“Trotting mainly caster, shallow under a stick float, I had over 20 lovely dace, a wild brownie and a chublet. In the last hour I was mobbed out by minnows until a shoal of good chub moved in, just as it was time to pack up! I could see them picking off free offerings in the shallow water but I think the alloy stick float stem kept spooking them. If I’d had time to refine my approach they were there for the taking, but I had to get home. It goes to show that if you keep the feed going in regularly, the big fish can turn up. Exciting fishing and just what I needed for my first trip to Belper this season.”
In October, Dale Lander emailed us details of a 19lb mirror carp which had picked up his 2 x 12mm boilie offering at Wyver Lane Pond. Dale noted how recognisable this fish is, missing the lower half of its tail. Have you caught this fish before?
Dale’s 19lb mirror carp
If you have any captures you’d like to share with us, please either head to our catch report page or the Club’s Facebook page and include as many details as possible, including whether or not you’re happy for us to share the photos and details.
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With the river carrying a few inches of extra water and a bit of colour it was hoped the river would fish a little better, but all competitors struggled due to the amount of leaves in the river system of late.
The annual charity memorial match was held on the Sewerage Works Section of the Derwent at Belper.
Fished in pleasant September sunshine, with the river at normal level and running clear it was expected to be tough going, however everyone managed a few bites. £45 was raised for charity.
Results:
1st Martin Jacques = 6lb 3oz
2nd Adam Ingram = 4lb 2oz
3rd Elliott Boam = 2lb 14oz
4th Roger Stone = 2lb 8oz
5th Adi Ingram = 1lb 8oz
6th Paul Spencer = 1lb 2oz
7th Stefan Harhat = 5oz
The John Mason Memorial Trophy
RIver Derwent, Sewerage Works section
John Mason Memorial Match weigh-in
The weigh-in
Adi Ingram’s net of fish
John Mason Memorial Charity Match – Sunday 13th September
Goods Road, Sewerage Works section from Pontoon bridge to Railway bridge.
£15 pools. Draw at 8am at the Spinney. Fish from 9.30am to 2.30pm
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