Date Fished 9/9/2026
8am until 4pm
Youtube teaches us lots of things - fixing leaky pipes, poaching eggs and more importantly where to fish on new rivers. Having watched a few video's recently and a side quest to my Tees barbel, I want to catch a barbel from a few other rivers.
Yes, that is all the river barbel I have ever caught. I want to add more English rivers, but doing the "local" ones first on my Leeds ticket.
Ellis and I hit the Yorkshire Derwent. He had fished this beat on Monday and had a bream and bits.
Today, I was after barbel and bream and Ellis was after everything. He had brought his 17ft float rod as this is a very deep beat.
Both starting with the bait dropper, we put some hemp in the abyss.
Ellis had one sleeper rod and expertly float fished in 15ft of water and caught 30 odd bleak, roach, chublets and perch.
I had (in essence) two sleeper rods with pellet and boilies and the highlight was sitting on my chair with the legs folded up, so I just sat on the floor, very comfy!!
It's a great beat and we will be back. Plenty of fish topping and Ellis saw some chub, bream and a pike on his brisk walk before we packed up.
We chatted with a few anglers as we left and everyone quoted the YouTube video's.
Seems the secret is out!
