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john ledger
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After a 20year lull i took out the Derby Rail book again for this coming season having spent most of the eighties on their waters. I set off early and so glad i did as the road i used to come off the M1 had now changed and i got lost.I decided i would fish at Shardlow which is the lower end of their waters and fished in the wooded area below the car park. After tackling up i fed two lines before fishing for about ten minutes and fished a light set up with rig taking a 6no6 stickfloat 20hook on 1lb bottom. Started to catch virtually 2nd trot down and ended a morning spell with a mixed bag of 16lb(mainly roach dace perch plus two rudd biggest fish was about 10oz and although the catch was nothing special it showed the river is well and truly on the way back as all the fish where fin perfect, and the amount of small fish is an excellent sign for the river,Its certainly on the way back.
I hate hot weather and the reason i fished the woods was to get out of the heat otherwise i would have moved up on to the gravels which in the past has always produced a few barbel.
Still it was nice to be back in such beautifull surroundings and as i used to tell Ron Clay when we used to fish the tidal Trent you can keep the tidal Ron i would rather be on the Upper reaches,the fish might not be as big but its the beauty of the area and the tidal is just plain ugly to me
I hate hot weather and the reason i fished the woods was to get out of the heat otherwise i would have moved up on to the gravels which in the past has always produced a few barbel.
Still it was nice to be back in such beautifull surroundings and as i used to tell Ron Clay when we used to fish the tidal Trent you can keep the tidal Ron i would rather be on the Upper reaches,the fish might not be as big but its the beauty of the area and the tidal is just plain ugly to me