What was your first EVER fish?

[BoldBear]

The first coarse fish on a huge Tonkin Cane rod and a tiny wooden centrepin must have been a gudgeon on the Grand Union Canal at Croxley Green just south of Waford when I was around 6 or 7 years old.

My First Game fish was a brown trout from a stream at the bottom of the hill where I lived in Helston Cornwall (when I was based at RNAS Culdrose), caught by drifting half a lob worm down the current with a couple of dust shot on the line.

Edited January 6, 2009 by BoldBear

[Stretpegger]

A half pound Rudd from a Bedfordshire estate lake circa 1968.

[Chris Plumb]

Any more votes?

 

 

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[raycab]

It was a perch about 3oz from battersea park in the mid sixties.My first gamefish was a grayling from the kennet at thatcham a fantastic stretch of river that the london anglers association once had. great days indeed.

[jameshodkin]

a very small Roach, caught from a small farm pond in summer 1988. Still remember the float going under like it was yesterday

[yorkio]

I'm really surprised that so few people have answered carp (just three at time of writing) when so much of the fishing in the UK these days is for carp. I wonder whether this is a reflection of the age of those who have answered their survey (ie, old enough to have grown up in a time when carp were still a bit out of the ordinary for many anglers) or whether there are other factors at work?

[bluezulu]

a 1lb perch summer of 67 on the fazeley cut at bodymore heath.