First Ever Fish

[Anderoo]

A small perch on floatfished maggots from a local lake with my dad. I was four. We put it in a bucket of water (an orange bucket, I remember!) and I spent ages watching it swim around, completely fascinated. I still get the exact same feeling when I go fishing now

[chelmerpaul]

Nothing as exotic as Newt! I can't remember my first ever fish, but I reckon it was a hard fighting gudgeon or maybe a monster bleak from the Thames.

[liamfish]

some sort of spined bullfish in france with my dad at the age of 4 ish

[RUDD]

My first coarse fish was a RUDD of course when I was 8 or 9 - well what did you expect

 

It also happens that my 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 400th were also Rudd

My Second species was an Eel and my third a crucian carp once I was old enough to fish a new water (14)

[Puzzled]

Perch, caught on my mates split cane rod at the local duck pond. We were all lining up to take turns in holding the rod and I struck so hard when I saw the float dip that the poor little blighter was foul-hooked throught the eye!

[riverside]

The first fish I ever caught was a 10 oz flounder in 1972. My first freshwater fish was a small roach.

[Houseplant]

Aged 5, small perch from the River Thames at Windsor.

[corydoras]

My first fish was quite a decent one. A cod of about 12lbs, from the rocks just outside the Coulport navy base.

Edited October 25, 2006 by corydoras

[jason.p]

My first was a Bleak from the Thames at Teddington sometime in the late 50's. That was it!!, been fishing ever since

[Dick Dastardly]

Budgie, Bitterwell, thats just outside Bristol isn't it, remember cycling up there with a rod and creel on my back when I was at Uni, caught my first double from there... Is it still a fishery ?

 

Yes thats right.Ive not been there /fished it since I was a lad.I believe its still a fishery though as Ive seen reports on it in the weeklies "where to fish" type sections. dis a lot of my early "proper" fishing there.My old dad used to drop me off there on a Sunday before he went to work! Was a day ticket water back then (quite an expensive one at 25p as well!) A "Bett Lynch" lookalike bird by the name of Sheila Skeets used to run it on behalf of the council.Had a small chalet in the diving board corner.I never caught a carp there but saw my first big ones (15lb) caught there.

 

If I remember right it also once held the British eel record (around 8lb?) at one time.Quite possibly the one prior to Steve Terrys present one.