Hi guys,

Just wondering about day ticket availibility in Yorkshire? I've got a couple of friends over in September and was hoping to get them on some good day ticket rivers. I'm based in Nottingham and am going to take them to Derbyshire for a day or two but wondered if there was any day tickets in Yorkshire to take them to as well.

Regards

Johnny

Hi Johnny

Stuart Minnikin lists the ticket waters:

http://www.yorkshire-dales-flyfishin...-yorkshire.htm

Steve C

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Thanks Steve,

I'll check that out.

Johnny

[QUOTE=birdboot]I had a couple of hours on the Swale below Catterick Bridge today.QUOTE]

That is the Bridge House Hotel's water isn't it? I've never fished there myself as a day ticket seems a bit expensive and it doesn't look any better than the adjacent Richmond waters. Do you find it a better stretch of water than Richmond?

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Fishing the Wharfe at Bolton Abbey On Saturday it was like mid summer with my thermometer recording the temperature as 26C! In the mid morning there was a decent hatch of olives and also lots of Grannom. Fish were feeding well on both and had several nice fish in quick succession, with a sedge pattern particularly successful. However, as the day went on hatches faded out. There was however still a lot of surface activity in the still parts of pools to midges. The fishing was more like summer than spring, but at least there is still a good flow of water in the Wharfe and it's fishing well on the nymph and spiders.

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Against my better judgement I fished the Swale at Great Langton on Monday. Past experience suggests this stretch is great for Grayling but poor for trout. However, my wife likes fishing this stretch and so insisted we go here as subtleties such as the close season seem to pass her by! Anyway I was right as I didn't see a trout all morning but had 9 Grayling even though I tried to avoid them.

There were lots of Grayling rising to midges in the long flats but few other flies around until about midday when Grannom's seemed to be everywhere. However, there was little response to this, which only strengthens my belief that there are few trout in this stretch.

The river is very clear and low at present and so I was surprised that the river seemed very cloudy at Great Langton Bridge. I couldn't understand this until I got about half way up the beat and found that the course of the river has been extensively remodelled by the winter floods and is now eating into the soil bank and this was colouring the water. Someone is going to have to do some work here or the farmer will loose half his field and the siltation isn't helping the river.

It's also Lamprey spawning time and this is a favorite stretch with them. There are hundreds of writhing lampreys in some of the gravelly pool tails creating large redds of clean pale gravel. Does anyone else have lampreys spawning in their rivers?

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[QUOTE=Imago]No, it's the Leeds water, which is below the Bridge House one. Last I heard, the hotel's day ticket was £5, which is the same as the Leeds one, but the latter stretch is much longer and more varied.

I know the Leeds stretch quite well and your right that its a good bit of water, particularly for Grayling. Also a season ticket is quite reasonably priced, though I can't remember exactly how much. One day I'll have to fish the Bridge House stretch just to see what it's like.

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Managed a few hours on the Calder today, started at @ 11.30 nothing rising nor any flies hatching so on with a PTN goldhead and a small czech on a dropper. Nowt for the first half an hour and given the low water levels and cool wind no surprise.
Decided to try the streamier water and deeper runs with a weighted Czech on a size 8 Siman hook and a small black nymph on the dropper, Result a nice 14" trout took the czech and gave a really good account of himself.
Two casts later and im into another lovely fish as the sun comes out and warms my cockles. Another brown but a tad larger at 17" and very thick set probably touching 3lb.
Sat back on the bank for a few moments and realised how I had misread this beat many times before this season, this year it all seems to be coming together here and im REALLY enjoying it.
Moved up the stream to give the pool a rest and found what must have been a nursery as after changing to a cdc/elk with a size22 ptn underneath Ihad about a dozen browns from 3" to 6" in under half an hour.
A lovely afternoon in the best of the days weather and another plus for the Yorkshire diaries.
Gary

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Thanks for the link Steve, just what I needed. Daughter is moving to Catterick in a couple of months so we'll be spending a bit of time up there. Saves me having to choose a campsite with it's own beat, one must get the priorities sorted beforehand.