Charlton’s Small Pond 26/07/12

I had an opportunity today to take both of my kids fishing as both wanted to go, so I took them to Charlton’s which is part of Billingham Angling Club, I am a member and decided to fish the small pond, we got there at 12.30 and packed up at 4.30.

I fished using my Garbolino 9ft picker with a small cage feeder to a swivel and used a size 16 pre tied Drennan hook length, which I have to say I am not a great fan off.

Emma age 6 on the left & Hannah age 4 on the right.

My bate of choice was ringer groundbait mix with added 2mm micro and ringers 4mm expanders topped with carp vader liquid sopex.

Fishing got off to a great start and we hooked our first silver on the first chuck and we continued to catch silver a chuck, although I did miss some bites as had to sort the kids out every one in a while.

On one of my casts my rod bent double as soon as the bate hit the water and the line started to scream off the reel, I believed I was in for a great fish, but unfortunately it snapped my 4lb hook length at the net and I never seen the fish, I would like to say is was a monster but it could have been fowl hooked. My biggest fish was a nice skimmer bream which is on the picture to the right.

 

Both my kids now appear to be hooked and both are wanting to go again tomorrow. The weather was horrible when we got there and rained for the first three hours or so.

 

All in all an excellent couple of hours and needless to say I will be going back again soon, just a shame I did not catch of the 200 carp that were recently put into the lake, oh well I might get one next time.