Emerging mayfly

A mayfly emerged fresh from the river. Its greenish hue was a colour I used in making some successful artifical foam bodied mayflys. See the river fly diary page for examples

Just to prove it wasn't my fishing bag altering the colour here it is from the trouts point of view!

Ogden day 10am Sunday 5th June 2016

Ogden Day, Sunday 5th June 2016 from 10 am just downstream of the main road bridge in Bakewell.
On this day it will be one hundred and fifty one years since Mr James Ogden demonstrated his floating flies on the Derbyshire Wye below Bakewell Bridge. The day after, the dry-fly-only rule was adopted on the Peacock Fly fishing water and has been in place ever since. 
There will be a re-enactment of his demonstration to catch a fish. Let us hope he is successful!

Ladies of the Stream - fly fishing day on the Derwent near Hathersage

A wonderful stretch of the Derwent. And what beautiful weather we had. The following shots were provided by Hilary and give a good idea of the enjoyable day we had.

There were seven of us to fish, though Isobel and Juliet mostly guided during the day. Mayfly were starting to come off and the fishing was most productive.

The colouring on the wild brownies is delightful.

The olive uprights were in abundance at the end of the day, flying in clouds around us as we were packing up.
A great day. Thanks to all for attending and especially thanks to Juliet and Isobel for organising the day.