How did you learn how to fish?

[phonebush]

As of today, after some 50 odd year of angling I still don't have a handle on how to fish, still learning.

 

My mother always said I was a little daft.

Phone

You do not have to agree with my dear departed mother.

[Vince]

Still learning been fishing for a couple of month's now and love it!!

 

Wish my wife thought the same!!

 

She is off to visit her dad in a week or so sow ill be away for a week so you can guess what I am gonna be doing every night

[coxie]

I too was given Mr. Crabtree when I was quite young. Walked miles of river bank looking for a swim like the one depicted in the first "story" Fishing in Winter. A huge near bank eddy full of chub, roach and bream. Never found it!

Then I started to go with some school friends who fished Watford's River Gade in the summer evenings. A roach was a great prize, as were perch. We mostly caught gudgeon and minnows.

 

We graduated to the Rickmansworth Aquadrome, but, without guidance from adults, didn't have too many red-letter days.

 

The best thing I did was to join a club and watch and learn. Still doing that!

[Ray Larkin]

I had not been fishing since my schooldays, my son asked me to take him and his friends fishing one day. After watching him and trying to teach him I decieded to buy some tackle for both of us. We visited the Thames on several occasions and found that I needed teaching myself. We started going with a mate of mine who taught us lots. Not so long ago I went and stayed with Ian Heaps and completed his one week School of Angling in Wales, now that is a true Master. He taught me so much that I will have to go again as I had never heard of the half the things he showed me. It was well worth it and such a laugh for the whole week. Has anyone else fished there ?