first fish and how?

[shurdycarper]

hi all just for a bit of fun!

What was the first fish you ever caught?

And what did you catch it on?

[shurdycarper]

i'll start!

first fish was a roach or rudd and i caught it on a good old single red maggot float fishing in a tiny lake which no longer exsists

[fullcreel]

Roach, caught on a bread paste and quill, the pool has gone and I think the location is now part of a hotel.

[nodrog48]

the first fish i caught was a perch --i think very young at time lol fished maggots

[paul p]

3lb plaice, caught it on pure skill and presentatoin, i was 8years old and hadnt got a clue, bait straight rag, didnt know much about cocktails, do know, gin and tonic etc. Stud.

[JustMark]

Mackeral, on a hand line off North Pier, Blackpool. Aged 10

After that aged 14 it was a monster carp (22lbs in 1978) that everyone said existed but no-one had seen for a couple of years. Shortly following that the string of ponds near where I lived was filled in and turned into a housing estate

[geejayy]

mackerel on a trolled lask of macky from the boats at lyme regis.

but the first propper fish wasa plaice from hamble common by the gun emplacement.

[dave fish]

stickle back out of a local stream and cuaght it with my hand no bait needed a few bull heads as well if i remember correctly

[barbelblanker]

First fish hooked was a small rock thing in spain on a bit of line and a hook I found but I don't class this is my first rod caught fish as not only was it only a scrap of line, I also managed to kill the thing.

First real rod caught fish was at Roath Park Lake in Cardiff.

I was fishing on the old swimming pool near the light house and the guy next to me had been catching consistently all day and I (as usual) was blanking. I watched him for a while and when he left, dived stright in his swim (using the logic that there must be fish there because he caught them). Single grain of hemp and the float slid under. I struck so hard the fish flew out of the water and dropped off the hook at my feet. Probably 3 oz at most, roach. Chuffed I put it back then went to rebait my hook and it's only then that I saw that it hadn't come unhooked, the lower lip was still on the hook. I don't think I'll ever forget that poor little roach and I'm glad to say my fish handling skills have imporved somewhat since. Odd that I can remember the fish but not how old I was, probably 11 or 12. By then I was anlready a life long angler though, loved it, still do.

[Kiwi Angler]

Small perch from local gravel pits Nr Hull, UK, blood worm for bait aged 10. My son and daughter caught their first fish off the wharf in Russell, New Zealand aged 4 and 5, yellow tailed mackeral on fresh pipi's (Small shellfish found by digging on the beach). My dad caught his first fish on the Kaipara harbour, again New Zealand aged 65, Kahawai caught on cut pilchard.