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lesliefisherman |
how did you get into fishing |
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hi all,well what got you into fishing,but more importantly specimen fishing.cheers derek.
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Unregistered(d) |
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hi derek,glad you are still posting.
i was lucky in as much as my father was a keen angler and had fished the teme all his life my first outing was on a small brook that runs into the Teme i caught a wild brown trout of around 12ozs i was 8 years old at that age a fish like that leaves a big impression,i was and still am hooked. my grandfathers farm included a stretch of the Teme.so from an early age during the school summer holidays i was in the fields all day every day,birds nesting and fishing it's all i knew as a youg boy so i guess it's engrained in me mike |
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thisisjohn |
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Hi Derek, well me being a typical born straight after WW2
eastend kid got my intro through another lad and also my best mate as well going down to our local canal to catch stickle backs and redthroats armed with a 3 penny fishing net, this soon progressed to a drag net consisting of a bike wheel rim and a sacking over it and thrown & pulled back in with any string available dont laugh cos this was the serious stuff now, if you was lucky you caught a gudge (gudgeon) real big fish at the time The old man finally got me one a cheap set from brick lane market, well off i went with me 2 mates Lenny & glen and we cycled right up to the river Lea at tottenham,now this is only about 6 miles but to a kid of 6 that is one BIG adventure, venturing out of my area to parts unknown, well somehow or other i caught a gudgeon what must have had a death wish when i now recall that tackle the rest isjust progress from thereon in, but those early days of learning were wonderously fascinating and i try never to forget the simplicity in angling enjoyment |
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bgit |
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Suppose it was the very small stream at the back of Mum and Dads garden. Populated with mostly sticklebacks I used to fish with a net and later with a worm tied onto a piece of cotton. Neither Mum or Dad shared my avid interest. An aunt bought me a rod and as a treat we went down to the river. Using blue bottle as a bait I caught a dace and was hooked ever since.
Used a push bike to fish the river some 8 miles away and also the Avon and Kennet canal with like minded friends. Various species became challanges, tench, perch etc etc. When I started work got into sea fishing - both boat and shore - the use of a car made things easy and with Weymouth only 55 miles away living where I did, fishing every Friday night became the normal. Saturday was rabbiting and Sunday - sometimes deep sea fishing from Plymouth etc. My friends used to describe my 'orgy' of outdoor pursuits as 'Bob's Olympic Weekends' I got back into freshwater fishing properly in the late 70's and got preoccupied with Carp, Pike and ......Barbel. The flirtation with these species came down to two - Carp and Barbel - I was fortunate I had access to carp lakes only a mile away. Rivers and Barbel won entirely around a year later. Now enjoy watching nice fish as well as fishing for them. Cheers Bob |
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Felix333 |
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My parents used to live backing onto two small rivers (very near to where they built Terminal 4 at Heathrow now) and I used to spend a lot of the summer hols catching gudgeon, sticklebacks, stone loach, frogs newts etc in those awful nylon shirmp net things, and once I discovered the minnow bottle trap, minnows.
I once caught a small red eared terrapin by hand which at the time were very rare in pet shops never mind the Longford River. Anyway I went fishing for the first time with some mates down on the Thames at Sunbury and caught a Miller's Thumb first and the second fish was a 10oz dace! Five years of dabbling followed as I couldn't afford much tackle, but I only really got back into it about 3 years ago when I started working with a mate who was a carp fisherman who took me along to a commercial lake. Then progressed to barbel following a Trefor West guided day after meeting him at the NEC. Chris |
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scubasteve |
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My dad took me and my older brother to a small farm pond at the back of the house after becoming friends with the owner.
I was about 4 years old. Caught loads of stunted Crucian Carp on bread and worms, then one day a friend of my dad's who fished, came along with a new bait called "maggots". We empted the place. Then started fishing a local estate lake called "Somerford". Lots of Roach/Perch and Tench. One year they introduced Carp, and a few years later we started catching those. Moved to Bridgnorth in 1994, and started catching Barbel. Now on a couple of syndicates that give me access to big fish of most species. Just love fishing..................... Steve never argue with an idiot he will drag you down to his level and then beat ya with experience.
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barbelwalker |
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I first got into fishing on a caravanning weekend next to the canal. My mate dragged me down and I caught a couple of small roach. Something twigged at that point and I spent the next two years fishing the canals and lakes near Daventry catching lots of small roach. I spent hours just walking the banks talking to other anglers especially in the high profile matches we used to have on the canal 15 years ago. I eventually progressed to tench (still my favourites (just)) and bream then as the comercials became more popular carp although never with specimen tactics all match style fishing pole, feeder, and waggler. June 2003 I started barbel fishing and have done very little of any other fishing since. Not sure what drew me to barbel just fancied something different and lived close enough to venues in which they were a realistic target. Its fair to say that at the moment I'm addicted.
Mark |
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Mattharvey1 |
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Started off with a Shrimp net when I was about 3 yrs old down in Shoebryness and my first fish was probably a deep hooked Perch.
However what I clearly remember was not catching a fish when i was spinning for pike on Fawsley lake, Northants (anyone know it ?) - I was about 5yrs old and I think my dad must have cast out for me, I remember that at the end of the retrieve I looked down and a Mahoosive Pike had followed my lure right into the shallow water in the margins. I was completely flumoxed as what to do next so I made it up..... I flicked the lure out of the water and slammed it back down on its head |
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salisbury neil |
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my Dad really,
growing up a field away from the avon on the north of salisbury, Summer evenings would be for going for walks along the river to learn & wonder at wildlife, birds, birdsnests, rabbits, tadpoles, frogs, newts, snakes & of course, fish. he would teach me how to spot fish, different species, where they lie etc, (i would call it watercraft now i remember him showing me spots that would be good to see pike, nearer the end of the season carreirs etc. then seeing the huge shapes with camoflauged bodies i caught my first proper fish(brown trout) at about 10 years old floating bread, handlining off a bridge,down a path known as stinkpot alley. I was taught all aspects of this trade under the watchful eye of my dad, not looking suspicious in case commander Swan came into his garden to see off the poachers. in fact it was a good couple of years poaching trout off different bridges with a handline until i progressed to a rod ( the local flyfishing club baliff knew me by sight making it an impossible pastime to continue) when i did get a rod (one summer holiday) it was back to commander swans land, sneaking through a fenced off wood to leger for chub with bread flake until one day we were caught by the police , he had spotted us and called them. I was taken back home to a clip around the ear from mum when dad got home from work he said to her, something like "bloody kids" turned round & smiled at me hooked ever since Neil |
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northernmunkey |
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Some of you guys where born with a golden hook in your mouth ....( Mummy and Daddy had a length of the river Teme in the back garden
Regards Sean |
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barbeljoe |
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I started out fishing because my mate used to go and i decided to tag along with him and see what it was like. I didnt catch first time around but ended up going with my dad to a little pond that he fished when he was a nipper and i ended up catching a whole mixed bag of fish including goldfish, crucians and small roach. From then on i went to carping for a number of years and ended up with a best of 38lb+ which at that point was one of rthe best moments in my fishing.
I got into the rivers because a guy (and very good angler |
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Captain red |
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Hi,
I grew up in the country and was always into wildlife of all descriptions. Did the usual dabbling in ponds etc, and then when I went on holiday to Dymchurch with the family (I must of been about 8/9) and a school friend. Allen and I bought the (useless I know) obligatory 6ft fishing set with 3 floats, line, reel etc. you know what I mean! This is where I feel I shouldn't say this, but here goes. The day after buying them we went into the local tackle dealer and bought some, wait for it,...............................LUGWORM. I still feel embarrassed saying it, but I am going to be honest so please go easy on me! Its a pity my parents were not into fishing as maybe that could of helped here. We had a few trips to a small river, and I mean small, and I actually caught a skimmer. How I did I don't know, but I did, and on the lugworm. When I came home I then decided to get a few books and started to read every day and soon saw the error of my ways!! I soon realised that maybe maggots and bread was the way to go for coarse fish!!! When I got a little older I bought a Daiwa 5-in-1 rod and went fishing a bit more. My first PROPER day was at a small stillwater in Ashtead that according to the book held tench. I read my book beforehand and it said 5lb line and 6 to 8 hook with bread etc. Guess what, not a bite. When I packed up I went over to someone who was catching. She (yes she) showed me her setup. She was pole fishing with 1lb line for the tench as I then found out the tench only grew to about a pound in weight. Silly me, should have read my club book and not a fishing book! I got into barbel fishing much later (after lots of bream fishing form Old Bury Hill lake in Dorking) after I think I saw John Wilson catch his on his Royalty programme when it was on Channel 4. Then as they say the rest is history. Derek when did you start, how old were you and where? Did you make any bad mistakes like my lugworm bait? Keith |
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KristianP |
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Did lots of net dipping with my dad and gran in Mid Wales at the age of about 5, catching Millers Thumb and Stone Loach in the brook near Clatter. Some shocking early 80's photos still around!!
Got my first fishing rod in 1987 along with my brother after going to watch my dad at Coate Water in Swindon. It was a nine foot spinning rod from the States, as he was in the RAF, and we used it for everything. float fishing, lure fishing, ledgering, piking. I had that for years until snapping the top section. At first we used to get tangles of bird's nest proportions, with much mutterings and cursings from Dad. Occassionally cries of 'I've got a monster here' having unhooked the small roach and dropped the still baited hook in the margins, only for a double figure common carp to wolf the bait down and do a runner nearly taking the rod with it. Nowadays, I'm the only fisherman in the family, though I'm sure Dad will go out again when he retires. Especially as I'm going to buy him the licences to make him go. And he's never caught a barbel!! he doesn't know what he's missing!! Kris |
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Dorset Taff |
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My Dad!
8 years old , fishing for brownies in the brooks & streams of Pembrokeshire! Lost interest at 18....went off to Bristol...apart from a few dabbles in Baltic Wharf Basin....moved to Dorset in 1988..rediscovered my love for the pastime....then it was the Stour via a little farm carp lake...Hill View Farm...caught a 10-8 carp on 2.5lb line ( I know!! History repeats itself ( below! )...I now pass the baton to Rhys Huw |
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Dorset Taff |
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My Dad !
Rhys (Dorset Devil ...Son of DT) |
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Danefisher |
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No one in my family liked fishing. I grew up in Sandhurst in Berkshire within walking distance of Yateley which was called Tri-lakes then and I think was trout fishing only. No carp and anyway it was far too expensive for me. Fishing had to be free to qualify. There were streams with bullheads and loach and the occasional trout which flowed into the River Blackwater but we were kept well clear of playing near the river because of a polio scare at the time
In about 1960 I was invited to a school-friend's 7th birthday party. His name was David. One of his presents was a fishing outfit. It was complete rubbish and virtually incapable of catching anything. The rod was heavy guage wire with plastic rings and integral "reel". The handle was moulded in the shape of an oriental fish ! The line was cotton and the float a plastic "bob". David's father drove us all to a pond beside the A30 between Blackwater and Yateley near a roadhouse pub called the Ely. We fished with Hovis (it was Sunday after all) and we blanked big style and trooped home in disgrace. I remembered my uncle had given me an Observer's book of Freshwater Fish. There were some real horrors in it...lampreys and the salmon with the hooked jaw! Anyway a bit of reading led me to the hallowed phrase... "perch eat worms". Scales fell from my eyes. Of course all fish ate worms...not Hovis which is what hungry little boys eat. Our parents must have been in stitches because never having shown any previous interest in gardening we dug up every patch of earth we could find and collected all the worms. The next time we went to the pond we caught a perch a chuck. All of them 2 oz or so. The sight of our floats bobbing about before going under was fantastic. David's little brother Stephen caught a really weird fish i.e not a perch and later identified as a tench which must have weighed a pound and a half. Later we moved to a gravel pit. It was all small roach there. Then I moved to Marlow and fished the Thames which was much harder unless you wanted to catch bleak or ruffe. I had no one to show me how to do anything and made so many mistakes they are embarassing to recall, compensated for by all the enjoyable moments. I read Angling Times now and then and also had a copy of Mr Crabtree Goes Fishing. I never caught any big fish but when you are young that is not what it's about. My introduction to barbel fishing was on the Severals in 1979. With a light leger rod and 4 lb line I lost seven in a row including one on the float and the only fish I landed was a chub that went 5lb 4oz, about double my previous pb ! From then on fishing the Avon and Stour has been the only fishing for me. I even lived in Throop for two years before I had to leave when I changed jobs. I fished 5 days a week then. I didn't go back for nearly 20 years and when I did I could not believe how little water was in the river. Now it is the warm autumns which I notice. In 1980 frost would turn all bankside vegetation brown before the middle of October. Here I am now in Cheshire in the middle of November and we haven't had a frost yet ! If anyone recognises my reference to the pond by the A30 just south of Camberley and knows its name, please let me know. I have a feeling it was filled in as part of a road building scheme. |
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Wurzel |
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Danefisher,
I used to fish that pond i think. We used to call it the A30 pond oddly enough, but i cant remember its real name. Think there was a big nature reserve or large park behind it. Used to catch crucians whilst after the bigger carp. I really cant remember how far back it was when i started fishing proper, but must have been around 8-10 years old. caught my first roach on a chapman 500 and a black prince with 5lb line from Gunnersbury Park in London. Fished the Thames mainly at staines, laleham and occasionally richmond. Got into carp fishing when i was about 12 or 13 and landed some lovely commons to around 13lb out of Gunnersbury Park. Carp fished with a mate of my dads called Nick the Plasterer, cant remember his surname but he lived in Stanmore. Baits were HNV paste made from strawberry complan, bemax and lanes strawberry flavouring. Caught loads on the stuff. Moved to Swindon in 1978 and fished the upper thames catching chub to around four pounds. Id never seen chub that big before. Tried all sorts from then on including tench, carp and pike on the cotswold water park. Started getting interested in barbel in the mid 80's having never caught or even seen one until then. Wurzel "With grace we will suffer, with grace we shall recover."
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shippo |
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Lived half a mile from bristol avon and as i pushed into my teens the river was a big draw for teenage boys wether it was swimming or fishing there was always a large group of us. Fishing took place off the bridge at reybridge(if anyone knows it) near lacock up to 5 rods propped against the bridge(and always on the lookout for roger the bailiff(you cant fish off a road bridge) fishing for pike or floating bread for chub always so many adventures and it has stayed with me for over 20 years still fishing the same stretch love it and now ive discovered barbel think it will be with me forever
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lesliefisherman |
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hi all,like most of you started off with a 6penny net from woolworths catching little stuff about two inches long,and i thought how boring,then someone bought me a tank aerial fishing rod,when i moved from mitcham to hitchin,i was about 13yrs old at the time,so after school i used to cycle to maylins pool{withy pool}in henlow,as i heard there where bigger fish in there.i got there one evening about 5oclock and walked round the far side,and cast in with a bit of bread on the hook and float fished,and as i was looking in the water,i saw this big black shape coming towards my float,didnt know what fish it was,but just big,i was shaking because i had never seen anything like this before,so i had the rod in the left hand,and the right hand round the tree,incase it pulled me in,but the fish{carp}swam right passed the float,i thought thank god.i was thinking ime going to have to get a bigger rod.after this episode i wanted to catch big fish.as i grew up and a lot of carp later,i wanted to fish for barbel,i had heard so much about there fighting qualities that this is what i wanted to do,so since then in 1983 and one or sometimes two trips a week to the hampshire avon,brings me up to this present time.despite the big run of blanks,i will never give up.regards derek.
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Danefisher |
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Wurzel, I played cricket for Marlow in Gunnersbury Park against a club called Adelaide. I reckon their big no.6 batsman must have clonked one of mine in your direction !
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lesliefisherman |
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hi,sorry forgot to say,ime enjoying your storys.
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