Charlton’s Small Pond 19/08/12

My friend Adam from work asked me to pop out fishing with him as we he is getting back in to the sport after downing his rods some time a go..... so I thought is best to take him and with 2 kids to my local venue Charlton’s and we fished the little pond.

On arriving at the pond at 11am the weather was sunny and hot, but later rained heavy and then got out sunny again, we left the venue at 2.30.

I helped Adam and the little ones setup their rods and then I setup my Garbolino 9ft Super Squad Picker with a Preston 15g Banjo feeder filled with Ringers method mix and added micro pellets, I used a size 16 pre tied Preston quickstop 4” hair rig with single sweetcorn and fished to open water about 20 yards out.

Bites were steady for the 3 and a half hours that we fished, although some of the bits were very shy. To my delight I caught my first ever Crucian carp which weighed in at 1lb 2oz, I also pulled in a nice Bream at 1lb 8oz and also pulled in 5 Skimmers which were about 1lb each. Adam ended up catching 1 Skimmer which was about 12oz.

While there the bailiff from Billingham Angling Club come to checked that we all had our licenses and a guy and his son come and asked me for some advice on casting.

Unfortunately, when I got home I bounced my flask on the floor which smashed into bits and I guess I will have to buy a new one.

All in all an excellent couple of hours fishing with a friend and I will be going fishing with him again sometime soon.