What was your first fish?

Beaker · May 2, 2010

I guess that this has been asked before,but what was the first fish you caught?if you can remember that far back(for our older readers eg Mr Marsden).
My first fish was a 10oz dab caught off Llandudno pier when I was 13.

peter crabtree · May 2, 2010

mackeral on a hand line about 50 years ago, and that was the start of 49 more years fishing............

fishin4bites · May 2, 2010

a small roach on the ribble caught on ledgered bread with a fishing set from woolworths 30 years ago, doesnt time fly.

Guy Morris · May 2, 2010

Eel at Billing Aquadrome, 8 yrs old in 1985, on holiday with family friends, us wee ones were told by my friends father,that we had hooked a Sea Snake, so as you can imagine we were all really keen to deal with it !!!! Im surprised we all were not scarred for life, let alone keep Fishing.

geoffmaynard · May 2, 2010

A perch from Victoria park lake I think. I was about 6.

Poshpaul (Angling Trust and PaSC) · May 2, 2010

After the crabs from Canoe Lake in Southsea.(don't even go there you dirty minded lot...I was a child!!!)

..it was a rudd from a farm pond in Marden...poor thing flew over my head as I struck!!!!

Rickrod · May 2, 2010

my mother use too take me stickleback fishing with a little net and jam jar to a park in Bradford.on rod and line i think it was a perch from doe park res or minnows from the river aire

Tee-Cee · May 2, 2010

6" roach from Finsbury Park boating lake in circa 1950...I was seven at the time...perhaps it was 4" and grown over time!!

...moved onto the New River(as it was called) in Harringay and caught good 'goer' roach and perch before I was 10...then Walthamstow pits,then Regents Park canal....sorry,getting carried a way-silly ol'fool!

quickcedo · May 2, 2010

A 4oz Roach, from Earlswood common (near Redhill Surrey) in 1968. I was 7.

Shine · May 2, 2010

A Saithe. I think they are called Pollocks too, or part of the family. I can't remember. About 11 or 12 with something like this....

slime monster · May 2, 2010

A small Roach from Ainsdale lake Southport 57 years ago

chidorii · May 2, 2010

my grandad use to take me on walks by the River Sheaf. when I was about 8 I saw some trout topping, I was fascinated. I found a short piece of discarded fishing line (tut tut) and tied a caterpillar to the end. lowering the poor little thing into the water I felt something pull, I still remember the feeling, anyway I tied another caterpillar to the line an inch further up and allowed it to sink to the bottom. within a few mins I felt a tug, I lifted my line and to my surprise there was an ugly little creature that had swallowed the caterpillars deep down! it was of course a Bullhead!

and that's how I got hooked on fishing without a hook hehe.

Windy · May 3, 2010

I was going to say either a gudgeon or a minnow when I was 10 or so, but on thinking about it I believe that the dear old Mackerel on a hand line with feathers beat 'em both to it by about three or four years when I was about seven.

noknot · May 3, 2010

A Pouting then a Rudd

r1paul · May 3, 2010

Either a gudgeon or a Rufe from the River Theame`s at cookham about 48 years ago .

geoffmaynard · May 3, 2010

It was so long ago, it is hard to remember. The perch was my first fish on a rod and line but there was a pond close to where I grew up where we would catch sticklebacks and newts with a piece of worm tied to a length of cotton, no hooks.

Emmo (Angling Trust) · May 3, 2010

"Poor-cod" from Clacton pier.

Dicky (Angling Trust PAC) · May 3, 2010

A perch about 4-6oz from below the weir on the Great Ouse at Willington, near Bedford.

Caught with a bamboo pole from my Dad's garden with a Wilco (Woolworths) hook to nylon whipped on the end circa. 1983.

I think I was 12.

Happy days

S-Kippy · May 3, 2010

A 10 oz skimmer from a lake caught on a float with bread flake.I was about 10 and I never caught another fish for what seemed like ages...but that was it. I was an angler for evermore.

Ray Daywalker Clarke · May 3, 2010

My first fish was a Roach from a small lake near my home in Potters Bar, I was 5 years old, it was the year of the great winter 1963, 47 years ago.

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