First Proper Session With My Daugther

So the weekend finally arrived and we have done everything necessary to get out fishing.  With licenses, tackle and bait in tow Aoibheann and I headed down to Rawlings Retreat to fish Alders Lake.  Now I have never fished Alders before so with me carrying all the gear we started clockwise from the car park entrance.

With the wind blowing across the lake into the south bank I thought it best to go with the wind so off to the south side we went.  The picture on the right shows the swim we ended up setting up in.

So first things first I had my little fisher woman start mixing up the ground bait.  We were using dynamite baits silver x, Van Den Eynde red mix and the Liquid Worm.  We started by adding half of the two ground baits into a mixing bowl then in another bait box I retrieve some lake water and into that added a dose of the liquid worm and gave it a stir.  Once the ground bait was thoroughly mixed we added the water slowly to get the right consistency which should be to be able to squeeze it into a ball but the break it up easily.  We then made up a couple of big balls ready to go in.
I then set up the pole that Aoibheann and I would be using.  The lake at alders is very shallow at the peg to be safe for children so we were fishing approximately 3 meters out.  I plumbed the depth and set up the hook bait to be about 1.8 meters from the surface which would sit the bait on the bottom of the lake.

So I showed Aoibheann how to pass out the pole which she did and I took the opportunity to take the pic to the right.


It didn't take long until the swim was alive with Roach and Perch with seemed to be the order of the day.  You can see from the picture to the left Aoibheann is trying to bring in a small Roach.

 We caught about 20 fish in total that weighed in at a massive 0.88Kg or 1.9lbs.  Aoibheann is holding the biggest perch she caught which was 50g or 2oz

The last two pictures show the final haul and the biggest Roach and Perch.  I caught most of them but she helped land the "big" ones lol.
 The big highlight though to my day was that Aoibheann loved it :).

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