grayling fishing in lancashire

I go in search of grayling on the stunning river calder in the magical county of Lancashire.
I love fishing this river

[@tonycurrie5009]

Great to see the Calder so healthy. Baby greyling is a true test of the quality of the water now. 👌❤️👍

[@garywilliamsandmitsy]

The waters tip top and lots of goodies too eat in the gravel 😊

[@marcusharrison6913]

I can't believe you caught the same grayling (the heron damaged one) that I caught the day before when you were there with me Gaz! I was just upstream on the Abbey stretch on the same day that you filmed this, I caught 8 grayling (one was a clonker!) and had a lovely surprise barbel, only a small one but a barbel nonetheless :-)

[@garywilliamsandmitsy]

Aww well done mate. Tis a lovely peg at the bridge. I like it there alot 😊😊😊😊😊

[@leen8939]

I was just up from there on Thursday , it was still up and a bit coloured but had a load of them grayling and some chub on the feeder and float , some very nice ones aswell . Got to about 11 ish and the bites just stopped dead though . Going down again later this week and I’ll be taking some scales this time .

[@garywilliamsandmitsy]

There are definitely some big chublys down there. Well fed with duck bread

[@leen8939]

@@garywilliamsandmitsy if you’ve got Did’s (Carl) number ask him to forward you the pic of the one I sent him . I pulled out of another one that felt a similar size aswell , it had my drennan matchpro ultralight bent double and I could hardly do anything with it . With the extra flow and small 18 b560 the hook pulled just as I started making a bit of headway with it

[@michaelflaherty9697]

hi Gary can you tell me how many pints of maggots would you need for a days trotting cheers Michael

[@garywilliamsandmitsy]

Depends on venue and conditions. But winter on the calder i wouldn't use much maybe a pint. But if I was on the ribble ide take anything between 2 and 4 pints in winter and hemp too. But wouldn't bother with hemp in winter on either the calder or the darwen. Hope that helps

[@michaelflaherty9697]

Thanks for the quick reply,I had ago trotting on y=the Ribble free stretch in preston the other year in April with only a pint of maggots that I used up after an hour or two so ended up going home early This time I thought I would give the River Douglas a go this time and see how I get on. Yhanks again Michael

[@garywilliamsandmitsy]

The typical winter session on church deeps would be 4 pints of whatever you like. Hemp n tares. Hemp n caster. Bread mash n tares. Or just maggot. Best fish respond to less maggot in my opinion.. experiment 😊😊😊