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I lived in Ripley for 18 months 30 odd years ago with work ,fished Butterley many times and it was a fantastic bream water .Used to fish a few matches too ,one of which was the first time I used braid which cost me the match due to loosing fish as I wasn’t used to it ☹️☹️

Really enjoying your videos, Ben, and seen a few venues I'd fancy trying. Out of interest, I saw a video from about 7 years ago when they were netting the pike. Sounds like there are still some in there. Do you know if they left some bigger ones in there? I think we are lucky to have so many decent local venues. Keep up the good work! Cheers

Its poor fishing that, you can tell by the wear on the bank, nobody fishes it. When our club controlled it, Alwin used to talk it up, me n barry used to give it go with stick float n maggots, four foot deep, beautiful run through......1 stickleback all day. I've got photos of us set up on our boxes n platforms. Thats why Nethergreen let it go. If there was barbell n chubb in, the banks would be lined. And they are not. Its like most of the Rother, barren, I know, I've suffered for 30 years! 👍

Fact: *EA bailiffs regularly walk the banks in this area as they too know it is free fishing*

Hi Ben, only been watching you for a few weeks and im really enjoying your content. Im more of a game fisherman but it takes alsorts dont it. I just watched your Harthill video, really unlucky about your tender but remember whats for you will not go by you. Id love to have a chat and pick your brains as im on my own journey into starting a learning difficulty/mental illness focused club/charity ( try getting that mouthfull into a proposal). If you get a chance give me a shout, if not no dramas. Keep on with the videos their hitting in thr right way.👍

Nice video mate, can you do a river don video from Sheffield area especially if you find a stretch with good access for the disabled angler, cheers

Do we actually have credible accounts of what's been caught or can be caught in this stretch.🤔

About 25 to 30 years ago the Rother was classed as the dirtiest river in Europe and was barren of fish and aquatic life

Nethergreen club had that stretch years ago .we put 20 pegs in but no help from river authority on stocking .need to get hold of who owns an you an me run it lol

Lost count of how many times you've explained it, if people don't understand by now it's their own fault for not paying attention.

Hi Ben, love watching your video’s mate and like yourself I like my silver fish fishing and natural venues. It’s such a shame to see a wonderful fishing venue with so much litter. I hate to see litter and crap just chucked about.

They need to be left open fully and not closed to a few inches. If it raises in the next few days, such as with the incoming storm this weekend. It needs to lower back to the current level as quickly as possible.

Still awaiting the final snagging jobs to be completed and engineers sign off of the first phase of refill. The new sluices are only for emergency drawdown purposes. Normal feed will be via the existing valve in the tunnel. Cracks me up people sit confused and speculate instead of just sending in their questions that can be easily answered 😅

All those iron railings but nothing on outflow to stop fish losses .architectural intelligence at its best an not an ounce of common sense or on the ground intellect .good job again mate cheers 👍

Ben, Tried to explain this before - the sluice gates will stay open until CRT have had the safety sign off of this stage - they will then be closed and are ONLY to be used in an emergency with a risk of flooding - the main draw off, to control the water level is in the middle of the res on the bed. Additionally, the water is never meant to go over those 'cut outs'. Again, that is an emergency release, in case CRT can't get to the res in time, just as it was with the old spillway, which as far as I'm aware was only ever needed once since 1957 when the Sailing Club opened - at that stage we had water up to the front door!

I can see this dam was designed by a genius

Loving the videos mate. Could probably do with a stainless mesh cage in front of both the gates to release the water and stop the bigger fish escaping. If the height of the dam wall is higher than the surroundings I wonder what the reason for that is. Maybe a sluice gate higher up the wall would help. Let's hope the authorities see this video and answer the questions.

Had a few decent carp outta there over years. And a few outta nature reserve 😮

Hall croft only have a short section of the river for fishing right at the upstream end of the grounds. All the rest is controlled by Derbyshire country angling club as members only. In fact every bit of river you looked at is DCAC ticket lol

Hayton fishery just round the corner from here,absolutely brilliant. Say hello to Toby(the baliff). He is a character and a gentleman of the best quality.🤝👍

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I used to fish this when I was a kid,as some good days there, I agree with David clarke,bream arnt a nuisance, if you caught a carp when fishing for a bream,that was a bonus,to me they can keep there carp fishery,take the rest of the fish out and put them in other local clubs who'd appreciate them..

Why should bream be a nuisance fish just because 3 rods in a tent want bragging rights . Fished that venue since the 70s ,cut our teeth as kids for roach and perch and it was the bream anglers that supported it all those years. Had a bad experience a couple of years ago with a very arrogant bailiff who made it quite clear us bream anglers weren't welcome ,they can certainly keep it as far as I'm concerned.

Its a heritage railway Midland Railway.

Another local fishery to me. The reason it's so well maintained and so much money is being piled into it is because it's run in the main as a carp fishery - general course fishing just doesn't generate the same revenue. There is still some good course fishing on offer available on day ticket. The current management team/ club committee have transformed the place over the last 10 years or so.

Ben have you heard about rowthorn lane carr ponds near Hardwick hall it is a members only club there is 4 ponds and the membership is around 30 pound for the year and its is located in the Hardwick hall estate

Hi Ben great video , I fished codnor years ago , put it on my bucket list now for a visit , probably try a burger as well while I’m there , got to agree it looks very nice Reservoir & fishery 👌

I appreciate your diary of harthill. I learned to swim in there in 70s an used to swim to island in pebley as a teen

Great video of my local res 👍try looking at tibshelf and newton ponds in tibshelf Derbyshire,great little venue for all the family,very clean and tidy ,and friendly people who run it too 👍

That was an interesting walk around the reservoirs, looking at where the water comes from. It's just a matter of time before CRT decides that they will close the sluice gates and let Harthill fill up properly.

Hi Ben I have just seen a comment on Facebook someone asking where all the Bream from Butterley Res went and they said a lot went in Codner and they are removing more from Butterley because the carp men don't like catching them, Great filming again

I've fished "the park" since the late 70's and it's not a patch on what it used to be like - due to the modifications they made in the mid 80's - dropped the water level by about 3 foot and diverted the old cromford canal into the res. Before this it was crystal clear, weed in the margins and extensive lilly beds at the top end (shallows). The colour of the water now is because of the canal now running into it. The former feeder stream for it comes in under the little bridge you walked across - which you probably noticed was very clear water. It used to be a brilliant tench venue and was so rich in natural food it was doing carp to mid 30's in the late 80's - which for the East Midlands was a massive fish at the time. The lake had a stocking of carp by the then lease holders - Ripley and district angling club and the water became a really good mixed fishery with a good head of 20lb plus carp. Unfortunately the modifications came shortly after and the water quality started to deteriorate due to run off from the surrounding fields into the canal which now fed directly into the res. Ripley and district lost the lease to the res not long after and the new lease holder decided to turn the res into a match fishery and stocked a lot of small carp. Within days of this stocking nearly the entire original stock of large carp died and the general course fishing had been declining since the modifications had been done - all of the weed and lilly pads died off due to the dirty water coming in from the canal blocking sunlight from entering the water. No weed = less natural food and less spawning area's and no where for any fry to take cover. The water quality also killed off a lot of the bloodworm beds. Further stockings of different species of fish did nothing to improve the situation until the current lease holders started stocking large bream from butterley res a bit further up the valley. The koi carp that are in their came from my granddad's pond after he died. When his house got sold the new owners filled the pond in and the fish ended up in the res. If you stand on the overflow bridge with a torch at night you will see a lot of smaller fish swimming over it into the the stream that used to be the canal. The canal used to have no fish in it further down but is absolutely stuffed with all species now. The canal empties into the river Erewash at jacksdale which is also stuffed full of fish now. Cracking video mate 🙂

Used to have some great sessions bagging up on big tench

The water held in Pebley has been transferred to Harthill for the first stage of the refill. Closed off last week in anticipation of the storm

Good head of silvers big bream over 10lb good head of carp to 25 lb+ good for waggler feeder and pole

Morning Ben - thanks for the update - by the way, I don’t own the sailing club - I’m the Commodore (think Golf Club Captain) - the club is actually owned by the members as shareholders. Most of the vegetation will die off very quickly - it’s the willow samplings that have taken root that need addressing urgently - we’ve already dug about 50 out at the root. I’m back in the UK next week and weather permitting will look to do another flyover video.

Why aren’t the sluice gates closed

Great video, Once fish are back in what happens to them when the sluice gates are opened? Shouldn’t there be some mesh on it or are they wise enough to stay away?

Very very informative

Glad it’s overflowing might get some compensation water in the canal

Bodge job

Has the work been signed off ( completed)by all parties involved with this project.* Have you a copy of what work that was scheduled to be carried out and a completion date.

Have you thought about approaching embryo for a job on Harthill 😀

Really good vid mate been nice to see harthill come back to life .still shocked they left all greenery in bottom gonna take years to rot .

OCD in action 🙄

The first place I fished 60 years ago. It was open all round then with the pit top coming down to the lake. There were only a few wild carp in then. Bream, roach, perch and some big tench. It was run by the colliery fishing club then, it's changed massively. The best bream pegs were on the point opposite were you say you can't fish now. Brilliant must go back.

What a great review. The only thing you missed was the defibrillator that is located at the baliffs hut .

I do not think they are still in use but they are certainly a great land mark

Those towers are the headstock of old clipstone pit

Those towers are the headstock for the winding gear for old clipstone pit