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lesliefisherman	how did you get into fishing	Lead	[-]
Posts: 2713 (11/11/05 09:37) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None hi all,well what got you into fishing,but more importantly specimen fishing.cheers derek.
Unregistered(d)	fishing	#1	[-]
Posts: 0 (11/11/05 09:51) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	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
thisisjohn	1st fishing introduction	#2	[-]
Posts: 8025 (11/11/05 10:06) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	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 , by this time i was totally fascinated by fish & fishing (much to me mums horror and fear of me drowning ) but boys being boys i couldnt see wot all the fuss was about after this i watched older lads and gronups fishing with rods & reels, oh Dad i gotta have one was my plea for a long time after ( me mum still holding her hands up in horror) 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 , after this i just had to catch bigger things and used to cycle to highgate ponds and hampstead ponds where i eventually saw one of those shadows under the surface, after much inquisitive questioning of the men fishing there i found that these were called carp, try try? then after reading everything i could about fishing finally went to the thames and after much learning caught me 1st barel from a weir, then it was even more drive in me to catch one of those carp BIG nah Monstrous fish to me then 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 ...j.w
bgit	Re: 1st fishing introduction	#3	[-]
Posts: 4384 (11/11/05 10:28) Administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	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' . Hung up my guns at least twenty years ago. 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
Felix333	Re: 1st fishing introduction	#4	[-]
Posts: 825 (11/11/05 11:10) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	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
scubasteve	Re: 1st fishing introduction	#5	[-]
Posts: 3356 (11/11/05 11:30) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	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.
barbelwalker	Re: 1st fishing introduction	#6	[-]
Posts: 466 (11/11/05 11:32) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	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
Mattharvey1	Re: 1st fishing introduction	#7	[-]
Posts: 685 (11/11/05 11:42) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	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 - needless to say after the ripples subsided the Pike was nowhere in sight. Looking back I reckon that fish must have weighed at least a pound and a half
salisbury neil	Re: 1st fishing introduction	#8	[-]
Posts: 50 (11/11/05 11:55) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	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
northernmunkey	Re: 1st fishing introduction	#9	[-]
Posts: 244 (11/11/05 12:45) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	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 ). I started out fishing on the Bridgewater canal behind Timperley train station. Spent most of my youth match fishing with my Dad. Would give anything just to do that once more. Regards Sean
barbeljoe	What got you started??	#10	[-]
Posts: 1678 (11/11/05 12:46) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	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 ) at my dads work kept on about telling us to go and fish a local small stream for chub which we did and with his help, caught our first ever chub and from tyhat moment i was hooked on river fishing!!

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