Sandbagged!

Sandbagged!
Photograph by Steve Barnett

Friday 14 December 2012

Another...

...thousand words?


In April 2011 we considered a spot on the local river, the Derbyshire Wye, which had fish rising all over it at 05:33 that morning. 



One comment came from someone who knew the river well enough to take this view: "I would be disappointed not to see rises in those two locations on News Year day, at dawn never mind a mild spring morn, as it was here in Herefordshire."

Yesterday morning he would have been disappointed. 

By Gum!   It was cold.  Too cold for even the Large Dark Olive or the Iron Blue Dun to show themselves.  Your faithful blogger, however, was not so disappointed, having a tripod in hand, instead of a rod, and in the bag was a camera and its customary impedimenta.


Here is a downstream view from beside that alder sapling reflected in the photograph from 2011.  Even with no fish showing, there is still only one word to describe the river - beautiful!


Regular Rod

9 comments:

  1. Hi Regular Rod!

    Lovely pictures! Thanks for letting me use them as background on my computer. Changing today! Keep on posting lovely pictures!

    Friendly greetings from a very cold Sweden,
    Mats Olsson

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  2. A beautiful monochrome picture, you can almost feel the chill!
    Best wishes for the festive season.
    Colin

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    1. Stunning pics again RR :) Merry Christmas & a happy new year mate.

      Bendino

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  3. In my mind, nothing is prettier than a river photographed in black and white. Thank you Rod.

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  4. Fish were breaking off their activities on the redds to take advantage of LDO hatches yesterday.

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    1. High time you were taking me (and Henry) up to have a look at all this again...

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  5. Hi RR. Thanks for supporting my blog this season. Best wishes for the Christmas break and New Years fishing trips. Richard.
    fishermanrichard at 10:04

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    1. Not so much us supporting your blog. More the otherway round. Your blog is a good read and so really it supports us!

      Best wishes


      RR

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  6. Did you take that black and white pic? It's amazing?

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