River Wear

Not been on-line recently due to heavy work-load (working 6 days a week and 14 hours per day), also just back from a week’s holiday in Weardale visiting the in-laws. The weather while on holiday was pretty good, but the fishing was poor.
I managed to get a couple of hours fishing in on the River Wear near Stanhope and Frosterley.

Around Stanhope the river was in near perfect condition with fish rising freely to the fly life. I saw a few large brownies about 1 ½ lb jump with lots of smaller ones jumping to let me know they were there. I set up the rod and started to fish the Southern bank for about ½ mile. The wind was blowing from the West, which would be perfect for upstream dry fly. Unfortunately the wind was very strong which made casting very difficult. I did get a few takes on the hopper but nothing hooked.

The following day I was fishing the River Wear near Frosterley, again the wind was blowing from the west. The water again was in near perfect condition. The fish were again rising freely to the fly life. I thought I would try the North bank this time. I managed to raise a few fish again to the hopper but once again no fish were landed.

It was still great to be out again with the rod even though I did not managed to catch a single fish. The scenery around the River Wear is spectacular which more than made up for the lack of fish.