Hello

I live on Tyneside and am trying to catch my first ever grayling. The pickings are rare up here and I've tried to catch some today on the Ure in Ripon but couldn't find any, just brownies. I've tried the Wear and Derwent but never managed to find any one my trips out.

Can anyone recommend any decent rivers and stretches for me to try and land my first one?

I'm also thinking looking for them up in North Northumberland and the Scottish Borders if all else fails

Cheers

Mark

Try and get on the Tees around Darlington. Theres plenty there. I have caught grayling on the Wear but not since the trout season ended. The lower Derwent is meant to be fishing well for grayling but ive not tried there yet.
I believe theres plenty in the Swale around Catterick and Richmond, ill find out next weekend.
Failing that head north to the Tweed or Teviot, theres supposed to be some decent fish up there but you may have to wait til the salmon fishing is over.

Daz

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There's definatley grayling in the Ure at Ripon Mark - what stretch did you fish Mark ?

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Mark,

The lower-Derwent does fish well for grayling as Daz says. Day tickets can be bought from the Red Kite shop in Winlaton Mill. The Wear around Croxdale is decent for grayling but there are no day tickets for round there – you need to be a member of either Ferryhill or Durham City AC. You can get day tickets for Finchale Abbey, further downstream on the Wear, which looks like it might hold a grayling or two, but don’t bother with either of the ‘free’ stretches in Durham City – I’ve never seen or heard of any grayling coming out of there.

Although I don’t fish it myself, I’m told that the middle-Tees (below Barnard Castle down as far as Croft) is very good grayling water that is better suited to coarse tactics. Again as Daz says, the Swale near Richmond is also good grayling water. I would say the fast water up and downstream of Easby Abbey would be your best bet, which is well suited to either fly or stick float tactics. Day tickets can be bought from the sports shop on Fenkle St in Richmond and Easby is about a mile out of the town, just off the Brompton road.

I believe you can get day tickets to fish for grayling on the Till at Tiptoe as well.

Tight lines,

W_n_d

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Here's a little list

Free stretch at broken scarr on the Tees
£5 for the day at Gainford on the Tees, buy permits from the post office
Barnard castle about £12 tickets from tackle & gun shop

£6 on the Swale below the falls, tickets from the sport shop

£8 for the Teviot

a little further a field about 1hr 30mins or there abouts you've got the nidd £12 from the post office in patley bridge

£12 on the ure around hawes

Hope the above gives you plenty of choice....

I had some super grayling action last week on the broken scar stretch of the tees. Can't wait to get back.

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Hi Mark,

There's loadsa Grayling in the Derwent! I was there on Sunday and had about 30! They were all smallish size, but there fairly easy to catch if your wanting to practice catching them!
going to swale on Sunday, will report back!

cheers
scot

most or all of these rivers have Grayling in them

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Cheers lads, thanks for the fantastic advice, I think I might try either the tees or the lower Derwent. I'm assuming I'll have to buy my permit today as none of the post offices or shops will be open tomorrow?

Thanks

Mark