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Post by rushy on Jan 30, 2015 22:39:32 GMT
Just read a new members application form on Westyorksireangling forum and it has reminded me of how I got started fishing. used to go to Scarborough for our summer holidays circa 1970 and Mam and Dad got me a little 2 piece 6 foot rod set up and some mussels. After the first day sat in the harbour catching Whiting . . I was hooked !! That was me for the rest of the week and the rest is history as they say
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Post by Eddie on Jan 30, 2015 23:00:10 GMT
Watching Jack Hargreaves, on "how" tv programme, circa 1970? Put the idea of fishing in my head. My mum and dad had a static caravan at Easington on the east cost, one weekend when we arrived there was a split cane beach caster rod under the caravan. It was handed in but never claimed, so ended up given to me. Woolworths reel, local dam full of stunted tench and I was away. Next Christmas 12ft milbro float rod with threaded end eye for swing/quiver tip, seat box holdall,keep net, landing net, rod rests, the works and that was me obsessed for many years to come.
Eddie.
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Post by johnboy66 on Jan 31, 2015 0:00:25 GMT
My first fishing trip was on the Nidd it was the York stretch at skipbridge, don't know if they still have it but it was the left bank above the layby bridge. in them days it was the mane road showing my age now 1983 !!! lol it was my first time using red maggots used to be great for chub and big barbel. Haha Rushy mate you will like this, then it was the Leeds book for Kirk Hammerton your neck of the woods and mine from 1986 - 1989 then I joined Bradford no1. from 1989 till now back to Leeds 2012 Read more: westyorkshireangling.proboards.com/thread/1309/got-hooked?page=1#ixzz3QLuSwlsS
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Post by shaned on Jan 31, 2015 9:39:49 GMT
not that long ago lol, late summer 2010, went with a mate to a carp lake, sat for 6 hours staring at a float.....vowing never to come again, THEN, as i was packing up......I caught a 4lb carp..... HOOKED. almost 12 months later........my first river fish, river Derwent.......18lb pike.....on BREAD......honest wish I'd started 30/40yrs earlier....
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Post by trout on Jan 31, 2015 9:51:18 GMT
Ten inch brook trout down me local beck 1970 for me, never looked back
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Post by smithleback on Jan 31, 2015 9:57:00 GMT
My dad and both grandads fishing fanatics so a no brainer for me,first time wi mates mid 70s roundhay,caught a perch,havent stopped since
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Post by rushy on Jan 31, 2015 11:19:25 GMT
Watching Jack Hargreaves, on "how" tv programme, circa 1970? Put the idea of fishing in my head. My mum and dad had a static caravan at Easington on the east cost, one weekend when we arrived there was a split cane beach castor rod under the caravan. It was handed in but never claimed, so ended up given to me. Woolworths reel, local dam full of stunted tench and I was away. Next Christmas 12ft milbro float rod with threaded end eye for swing/quiver tip, seat box holdall,keep net, landing net, rod rests, the works and that was me obsessed for many years to come. Eddie. It wasn't this Milbro rod was it Eddie I still use it for posterity a couple of times a year but one of the eyes has fallen off
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Post by nige_LS7 on Jan 31, 2015 11:22:28 GMT
Nobody in my family fished, I didn't know any mates who fished and we lived at least 20 miles from a fishable river but I became obsessed with river fishing from an early age, about 9 I think. Not sure how but it might have gone something like this:
* spent a lot of time on the prom and the beach near home, walking the dog and watching the sea anglers * there were tiny carp ponds and park lakes right by where I played footy for junior teams and I used to be fascinated by the anglers there too * Jack Hargreaves "Out of Town" on TV early seventies *very importantly, maybe most importantly, was the influence of my local WOOLWORTHS. The Woolies fishing gear (Winfield brand) was right next to all the Airfix models and stuff and nobody minded if I just stood for what seemed like hours and looked at all the fascinating bits and bobs. I think there were free brochures and very cheap little books - Mr. Crabtree got into my head from the very start - you could just stand there and read all about it if you'd already blown your whole month's pocket money on a box of Airfix commandos or something. *we were allowed to subscribe to one comic or magazine a week so I cancelled my 'Shoot' footy magazine and started to get the Angling Times every week. Before too long at the age of ten I'd won one of their weekly junior 'Kingfisher Guild' crossword competitions and got meself a fishing holiday in Ireland with 9 other older lads, all of whom had dads who fished and so knew what they were doing. I didn't, but got taught a bit by the editor of the Angling Times (Peter Collins at the time, 1974) * still didn't have much chance to fish rivers when I got home, but after that we went to Ireland on hols most years, and most of my fishing was there. * I actually picked my university for the river fishing potential, rather than the course or anything, but other interests took over (the sort of interests that meant I was rarely out of bed before noon) and never fished once when I got there, never fished again until fairly recently. Now it's largely my Mrs. who's got me back into it and I'm learning all over again, totally obsessed again, loving every minute.
Took my old 1970's Winfield spinning rod up to Otley a couple of months back and in a short session it claimed the first of what will hopefully be many river pike. OK, the fish was just a pound a half, but the rod didn't even notice it had a fish on, which convinced me it can probably handle anything Yorkshire's rivers can throw at me. It seems as good as new (unlike the lovely old ledger rod that Peter Collins recommended me in 1974, which has not been well served by 30-odd years in various attics, garages and storage containers).
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Post by Eddie on Jan 31, 2015 11:25:08 GMT
Watching Jack Hargreaves, on "how" tv programme, circa 1970? Put the idea of fishing in my head. My mum and dad had a static caravan at Easington on the east cost, one weekend when we arrived there was a split cane beach castor rod under the caravan. It was handed in but never claimed, so ended up given to me. Woolworths reel, local dam full of stunted tench and I was away. Next Christmas 12ft milbro float rod with threaded end eye for swing/quiver tip, seat box holdall,keep net, landing net, rod rests, the works and that was me obsessed for many years to come. Eddie. It wasn't this Milbro rod was it Eddie I still use it for posterity a couple of times a year but one of the eyes has fallen off View AttachmentView AttachmentIt could well have been, it was definitely that colour! They just don't make enough orange rods these days! Eddie.
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Post by gcb on Jan 31, 2015 15:51:02 GMT
A drainage ditch at the side of Thorne canal - it's still there - about 1960. A length of cotton with a matchstick as a float and a worm tied on the end of the cotton. It was several years until I started using hooks which you could by in singles. The minnows and sticklebacks used to hang on long enough before you lifted them out to hand to put in your jar. I always used to sneak off. Don't go near the water Geoff .... no mam !!!
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Post by nige_LS7 on Jan 31, 2015 20:14:01 GMT
Now it's largely my Mrs. who's got me back into it and I'm learning all over again My Mrs' dad has just reminded me that he offered me all his old fishing gear, then I never used it for months, which is how Claire started to nag me that we should go fishing and use it ... ... he said this when he heard that for the last 2 days she's been fishing one her own without me as I've been a bit under the weather and busy with other stuff. Apparently she bagged up on roach today at Highbury pond on her way back from Aldi
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Post by rushy on Jan 31, 2015 20:53:12 GMT
Now it's largely my Mrs. who's got me back into it and I'm learning all over again My Mrs' dad has just reminded me that he offered me all his old fishing gear, then I never used it for months, which is how Claire started to nag me that we should go fishing and use it ... ... he said this when he heard that for the last 2 days she's been fishing one her own without me as I've been a bit under the weather and busy with other stuff. Apparently she bagged up on roach today at Highbury pond on her way back from Aldi Ha ha love it !! It's normally a sneaky pint in the pub on the way back from Morrisons to give the wife a feeble excuse about the queues being really long. Never heard about the wife bagging up on Roach on the way home from Aldi , you should have twigged Nige when she was putting the tackle in with the shopping bags . . . Nice one Claire . . And don't worry about Nige . . . It'll only be man flu oooooohhhh
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Post by jhop on Jan 31, 2015 21:42:56 GMT
Roundhay park juvenile match 1972 under elevens as a 7 year old won the age group, remember learning how to cast a feeder rig on the grass in the cul de sac where we lived prior to the match. Carried on into late teens then started playing rugby and american football then golf returned to angling last season, looking forward to this season.
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Post by av1nbarb3l on Feb 1, 2015 12:04:51 GMT
give ower rusty ya musta been fishing in the 60s easy
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Post by av1nbarb3l on Feb 1, 2015 12:45:30 GMT
sea fishing was my first fishing trip me ma used to drop me off at north gare every day nearly during my days out of borstal i used to walk round to the mud flats near the nuclear power station to dig ragworm and id be sat on the pier all day catching whiting and the odd flatty my course fishing days came much later about 30 years ago at charltons pond near home in billingham great days they were i had quite a few boat fishing trips with me dad and his mates and with me uncle stan who also used to take me night fishing off the hough in hartlepool after school oh to be young again
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