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Autumn Angling: Grayling Fishing on the River Derwent
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on Oct 1st, 2009 and filed under Where to Fish.
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Hi great article enjoyed reading it.The grayling were introduced into the derwent in 1875 by members of the upper club and reached the river by rail from Yorkshire.They were transported in milk churns and a young lad went with them to pour water from one churn to another to keep the water oxygenated.. The upper club the derwent angling association allow day tickets for both trout and grayling fishing for its entire 15 miles until the end of December.Then only on land owned by the club until the 31st of Jan.all day tickets available from the post office at shotley bridge or Frazer’s angling gates-head
.cheers Alan…….
look at the web sight derwent angling association
Great article Pete, so glad you’re enjoying the river. APDVAA did do a small stocking of graylig in the 1980′s.
Great article Pete, I’m a member of the DAA and was wondering how the pollution this year has affected the grayling fishing. Which parts still hold them? I’ve tried Allensford to Shotley weir but never found any.
Just surfing around and came upon your site. Very nice post. Will be adding you to my RSS reader.
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I have been fishing the middle to lower Derwent for number years and have always managed to find eager shoals of grayling in October and November. This year however, has been different. Whilst it has been possible to catch and return eager little trout, the grayling have been very scarce. The most worrying aspect is that previously the angler could often be beseiged by juvenile fish, which are keen to grab dry, wet, and bugs where appropriate. These now seem to be very scarse indeed!
Of course it might be that the grayling have now moved to different parts of the river, or more likely a combination of poaching, polution and predation have begun to take a toll on a very fragile ecosystem.
Good site, and plenty of good crack! i will have to get over to the north east this season and try some of the waters, pete