An afternoon teaching:

[Banana Steve]

An afternoon teaching:

After fishing Friday and Simon N having a go on my pole, He decided that he would like to get one. After shopping around, Simon picked up a 12.5mtr Preston pole. He popped round to my place on Saturday where we commenced to set up the top sets with bushes and elastic. Simon was keen to give the pole ago, so we arranged to meet up at Crockerton on Sunday at around 1pm.

Well Sunday arrived and the morning just brought rain. I rang Simon to make certain he was still going, yep he was still going and by the sounds off it he was really looking forward to going. So at 12.50pm I headed to the lake. I just took my box and a few items to make life a little easier for Simon. On arriving at the lake I found both Cindy and Simon ready and willing to go. So we headed off to pegs 14 and 15, Simon set himself up in peg 14 and Cindy popped into 15. As Simon set his station up, I gave Cindy a hand to set her depth up for the float rod she was using. Once Simon was set-up on the pole we sorted his rig out and I showed how to plum the depth and get the pole rig in the right area. Once Simon was ready he started fishing, his main line of attack was meat but he started on maggot which helped him catch a few small perch. After a while he went onto the meat and started to catch slightly bigger fish.



After an hour or so, Simon hooked into his first elastic stretcher, a quality skimmer of around 1lb

As the day progressed Simon had a few of these sized fish.
He stated to catch some quality hybrids as well.


Cindy in Peg 15 was struggling and even though I sat behind her for a while the bites were just not coming. With peg 13 being available we headed off to try there. Once Cindy was settled, I re-adjusted the depth of her float so she was fishing the deck. However, Cindy was struggling a little with her casting, so with a little bit of coaching we sorted her casting out and was casting at least double her normal distance. It wasn’t long before Cindy had her first fish in peg 13.



Cindy in her peg


Cindy’s best fish of the day


Sitting in peg 12 was a new member of the club and he was doing very well on the pole, so I thought I would have a chat with him to see how he was enjoying the fishing, on meeting him he mentioned the forum, at that point I knew he was a member of the forum and it was nice to meet Montygti, he was doing really well catching a good selection of fish.


It was 6pm when we knocked it on the head, Simons last fish of the day was a Bream of around 2 ½ lb, but on taking the photo the fish jumped out of Simon’s hands straight back into the lake, so photo taken, but it was a nice fish to finish the day of.

I think Simon enjoyed himself and hopefully he will enjoy the pole from now-on. I was glad to help both Cindy and Simon, it made the whole day worth going knowing that they both had learnt new skills.

[Simon N]

Thank You Steve , We Both Had A Great Afternoon. Fantastic To Finally Get To Grips The Pole Fishing. Your A Great Teacher To A Style Of Fishing Ive Been Worried About Trying For Years, Just Hope I Wasnt To Bad Of A Student For The Afternoon.

[blackwater]

Well done all of you, Pole fishing is one style i just don't get any real pleasure out of! maybe i need a lesson some time!

[Banana Steve]

Originally Posted by blackwater

Well done all of you, Pole fishing is one style i just don't get any real pleasure out of! maybe i need a lesson some time!

Co Down might be a tad far for me to teach you

[blackwater]

Originally Posted by Banana Steve

Co Down might be a tad far for me to teach you

Just a little! I must get the pole out when the better weather heads in and try and get a few nice rudd/roach from the local!

[headless]

Good report Steve

It is nice to see an anglers spend his precious time teaching others, good on you

Well done Cindy and Simon, pole fishing can become addictive, wait until you hook a Carp, the fun will start

Darrell

[Fishing Forum Admin]

well done all lookis a great day

[pingu]

nice one there steve,
if its anything like when you showed me how to use the waggler properly i know they wont go far wrong


dave

[Ryan messen]

Pole fishing something to try in the future for sure and now I know whos door to knock on. Looks like it was a good day al round.

[Banana Steve]

Originally Posted by Ryan messen

Pole fishing something to try in the future for sure and now I know whos door to knock on. Looks like it was a good day al round.

Always welcome Ryan