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Going back to the mindset of your first days?


Dave H

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I was recently speaking to a very good angler of over 30 years of fishing. I mentioned my sport who I too had spent a long time doing. We agreed that it would be nice to go back to the very days we started in both our sports.

To not knowing how to cast to catching our first fish but in general bringing that Extra excitement into it. I still enjoy the buzz today but the finding of all things new. I remember catching my first fish. It was a Dace from the river Mole in 1970 I was 9 years old. Maybe we should not go that far back as I remember taking it home in a jar but the real fishing excitement.

I remember fishing off a boat on the broads when I was about 14. I caught a Bootlace after a bootlace and in the light. I remember getting a small packet of hempseed which was banned for a short time as was alleged it got the fish on a high and felt like i had the latest secret weapon that was going to put thousand of fish in my keepnet. Still bootlace after bootlace and then a small jack of about a 1lb...What joys?

Mainly to you old timers would you like to go back to those first few days of fishing but not in the same mindset as you are now but in the mindset of being back then as it was magical?

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There is not one thing different between ideology and religeon
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I recall catching a 2lb perch from the broads when I was a lad; grabbing swan muscles out of the lake to fish with; catching bleak along the Trent and watching my brother cast my "all time fave" spinner out into some lily pads and then snapping off! LOL! also using a tiny perch bobber just down the edge of a wall....great fun

but to me I found that fun again with the pen rods..they take away all the modern stuff and, to me at least, they really bring back the excitement....

so I think you can return to the excitement of the "old" days by simply cutting back on the techniques and tackle you use....there is something that is always exciting about catching fish in as simple a way as possible....which if you think about it is exactly how your dad or granddad or whomever got you started fishing in the first place....

I know my dad started me off really simple....I was allowed to put the float on, and the shot and then id patiently hold my rod tip under his nose til he tied my hook on for me! LOL!

great days!

the other way to get back those feelings is to teach others of course...on the days we take the pupils out fishing with us for a week its really exciting to see the energy they put into it and the joy they have when they land their first carp or chub or whatever....a lot of them will have been caught up in the "new craze" and they simply wont have thought about fishing the margins or just free-lining bait or float ledgering or anything other than blasting a method feeder out across the lake....

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No, never go back.

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Species Caught 2014

Zander, Pike, Bream, Roach, Tench, Perch, Rudd, Common Carp, Mirror Carp, Eel, Grayling, Brown Trout, Rainbow Trout

Species Caught 2013

Pike, Zander, Bream, Roach, Eel, Tench, Rudd, Perch, Common Carp, Koi Carp, Brown Goldfish, Grayling, Brown Trout, Chub, Roosterfish, Dorado, Black Grouper, Barracuda, Mangrove Snapper, Mutton Snapper, Jack Crevalle, Tarpon, Red Snapper

Species Caught 2012
Zander, Pike, Perch, Chub, Ruff, Gudgeon, Dace, Minnow, Wels Catfish, Common Carp, Mirror Carp, Ghost Carp, Roach, Bream, Eel, Rudd, Tench, Arapaima, Mekong Catfish, Sawai Catfish, Marbled Tiger Catfish, Amazon Redtail Catfish, Thai Redtail Catfish, Batrachian Walking Catfish, Siamese Carp, Rohu, Julliens Golden Prize Carp, Giant Gourami, Java Barb, Red Tailed Tin Foil Barb, Nile Tilapia, Black Pacu, Red Bellied Pacu, Alligator Gar
Species Caught 2011
Zander, Tench, Bream, Chub, Barbel, Roach, Rudd, Grayling, Brown Trout, Salmon Parr, Minnow, Pike, Eel, Common Carp, Mirror Carp, Ghost Carp, Koi Carp, Crucian Carp, F1 Carp, Blue Orfe, Ide, Goldfish, Brown Goldfish, Comet Goldfish, Golden Tench, Golden Rudd, Perch, Gudgeon, Ruff, Bleak, Dace, Sergeant Major, French Grunt, Yellow Tail Snapper, Tom Tate Grunt, Clown Wrasse, Slippery Dick Wrasse, Doctor Fish, Graysby, Dusky Squirrel Fish, Longspine Squirrel Fish, Stripped Croaker, Leather Jack, Emerald Parrot Fish, Red Tail Parrot Fish, White Grunt, Bone Fish
Species Caught 2010
Zander, Pike, Perch, Eel, Tench, Bream, Roach, Rudd, Mirror Carp, Common Carp, Crucian Carp, Siamese Carp, Asian Redtail Catfish, Sawai Catfish, Rohu, Amazon Redtail Catfish, Pacu, Long Tom, Moon Wrasse, Sergeant Major, Green Damsel, Tomtate Grunt, Sea Chub, Yellowtail Surgeon, Black Damsel, Blue Dot Grouper, Checkered Sea Perch, Java Rabbitfish, One Spot Snapper, Snubnose Rudderfish
Species Caught 2009
Barramundi, Spotted Sorubim Catfish, Wallago Leeri Catfish, Wallago Attu Catfish, Amazon Redtail Catfish, Mrigul, Siamese Carp, Java Barb, Tarpon, Wahoo, Barracuda, Skipjack Tuna, Bonito, Yellow Eye Rockfish, Red Snapper, Mangrove Snapper, Black Fin Snapper, Dog Snapper, Yellow Tail Snapper, Marble Grouper, Black Fin Tuna, Spanish Mackerel, Mutton Snapper, Redhind Grouper, Saddle Grouper, Schoolmaster, Coral Trout, Bar Jack, Pike, Zander, Perch, Tench, Bream, Roach, Rudd, Common Carp, Golden Tench, Wels Catfish
Species Caught 2008
Dorado, Wahoo, Barracuda, Bonito, Black Fin Tuna, Long Tom, Sergeant Major, Red Snapper, Black Damsel, Queen Trigga Fish, Red Grouper, Redhind Grouper, Rainbow Wrasse, Grey Trigger Fish, Ehrenbergs Snapper, Malabar Grouper, Lunar Fusiler, Two Tone Wrasse, Starry Dragonet, Convict Surgeonfish, Moonbeam Dwarf Angelfish,Bridled Monocle Bream, Redlined Triggerfish, Cero Mackeral, Rainbow Runner
Species Caught 2007
Arapaima, Alligator Gar, Mekong Catfish, Spotted Sorubim Catfish, Pacu, Siamese Carp, Barracuda, Black Fin Tuna, Queen Trigger Fish, Red Snapper, Yellow Tail Snapper, Honeycomb Grouper, Red Grouper, Schoolmaster, Cubera Snapper, Black Grouper, Albacore, Ballyhoo, Coney, Yellowfin Goatfish, Lattice Spinecheek

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You can never get all of the magic back - the innocence is gone - but it would help to leave most of the clobber at home and get back to basics.

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."

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Can see all the points. I think Rob that's more how i feel but it's not this sport i am referring to as i have been away from this quite some time so i feel a bit like that starting feeling now to not such an extent as catching your forst few but its nice after the break which is why i probably put up so many waffling thread starters at the moment...Sorry about that but hey ho!

Its more about my own but thought it would be interesting to see in this sport too.

 

Anyone want to take me Pike fishing as due to not being well last year i have not caught one for 16 years . i am desperate to get that big old fat head toothed critter in my net again...GRRR!! :)

 

Although i did have one but was not fishing for it so id did not quite mean the same

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When I first started fishing, I'd always be wondering if today would be the one magical and impossibly exciting day of the season I'd hook a carp.

 

Now I spend all year trying to avoid them.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music

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When I first started fishing, I'd always be wondering if today would be the one magical and impossibly exciting day of the season I'd hook a carp.

 

Now I spend all year trying to avoid them.

 

You love them really ;0)

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I remember the Carp being that fish nobody could catch. it was to clever we were told. if you caught one you were a bloody hero...LOL.


There is not one thing different between ideology and religeon
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was it as good as you remember? confucius said someting about reminiscing but i cant remember what but do rememeber what he say about fishing

 

confucius say man who fish in empty pond leave empty handed and he also say man who fishes in other mans well often catches crabs.

Azree

 

Let us see rather that like Janus—or better, like Yama, the Brahmin god of death—religion has two faces, one very friendly, one very gloomy...” Arthur Schopenhaur


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