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.

Charlton’s Small Pond 27/07/12

Today both my kids and I decided to go fishing again and went back to Charlton’s small pond for another session. We got there at 12.00 and packed up at 4.00.

Had a bit of a issue before we got there as I could not get parked outside of my local tackle shop Spotty Dog in Stockton, however I rang them and they brought the maggots out to the car for me. We then got to the car park for the pond and Hannah noticed that I had forgotten to pick up the kids seats so had to drive back home to get them.

I fished using my Garbolino 9ft Super Squad Picker with a Preston 15g Banjo method feeder and used a size 18 pre tied Preston quickstop 4” hair rig.

My bate of choice today was ringer groundbait mix with added 2mm micro and Asda sweet corn on the hair rig.

Fishing was a fish a chuck again, ended up catching 1 little roach, 9 nice sized Skimmers, a 1.5lb Bream and a very nice looking 2lb Mirror Carp, again I lost a fish at the net as it spat the hook.

 The kids also seemed to really enjoy fishing again and even had a little go on my Leeda 12ft waggler rod with a classic 2bb crystal float, needless to say they are both wanting to go again tomorrow, however, I have been fishing 3 times this week and need to sorted my gear out for a match on the 4/08/12 at Yarm Fishery.

An excellent couple of hours again and I will definitely be fishing there again, they reckon that the Bream go to 6lb in the pond and the Carp to 7lb.

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.