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March 3rd - My first foray into the fun


Darren T

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Today was my first day out fishing in over 10 years. Since last time I went i was 11 it seems only fair that i consider myself starting from a clean slate! Fortunately for me my uncle Mike is a keen angler and offered to take me out.

 

I arrived at my uncles’ house at around 9 in the morning with my camera bag. I have no tackle so it was just the camera, a sandwich and a bottle of drink to get me through the day. Fortunately my uncle had everything set to go, rods, reels, two landing nets, unhooking mats, chairs. In the car it went and we set off for our destination, Castlefields Lake which is part of the Dorking and District Angling Societies "turf". My uncle is a member of the club but I needed my day ticket (having already got my rod licence for the day online) and so we headed for Fullers Tackle Shop on South St in Dorking to get my ticket. We were lucky enough to catch one of the better bailiffs who let us know which pegs had been doing well in the last few days. With my ticket in hand and the knowledge that pegs 15,16 & 17 had been fishing well we headed off to the lake. It was a little trek form the car park to the lake but it was worth it. The lake was devoid of other anglers and in lovely surroundings. Deer were running through the forestry behind us and the sun was out with hardly a cloud in sight.

 

While my uncle starting setting up i donned my Polaroid’s and tried to survey the scene, the water was quite murky with visibility ending at about 3-5 inches down. There was a slight ripple on some of the surface but a large portion wasn’t touched by the wind. Once finished i had a nice Daiwa road and reel loaded up with a pre weighted puddle chucker followed by about 4ft of line. Most of the lake is 4ft so it seemed a perfect place to start. After loading up a maggot onto the hook and chucking in a small roach was banked within 30 seconds by my uncle signifying that there were defiantly fish in the water!

 

While i sat myself down my uncle trotted off to set up his ledger rig on the next peg, he was putting out small cubes of luncheon meat into the centre of the lake while i decided to try and target the margins of my peg. Over the course of the day i sat intently watching my float, waiting for it to dip, thinking it had when it hadn't ad generally really enjoying myself. All in all i pulled out around 15 fish with several being 3 inch roach and perch, a few being slightly more robust 5-7 inch roach and then finally, the last fish of the day pulled my float under. After a bit more of a struggle compared to the rest of the days quarry and a more substantial bend in the top section of my rod i finally caught sight of my fish. In the blink of an eye my uncle slipped the landing net under it and we brought it ashore.

 

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We didn’t get a weight and I was too excited to do anything but take pictures of it on the mat, but I was really pleased with my first Carp of around 8-9 inches caught on double maggot.

 

All day i had been trying single double and even triple maggot as well as single and double caster in an effort to keep the teeny tiny roach away from my bait. The casters had no luck all day and even triple maggot didn’t stop a few really small roach taking my bait.

 

All in all it was a great day for me, and I really enjoyed myself! Now i am looking at picking up some tackle of my own in preparation for the next trip out with my uncle.

 

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