Aoibheann's First Pike Session All Be It Very Short

So I decided to take Aoibheann on a short Pike session at Gingerbread Lake part of the BigHitAA waters in Eaton Socon.  It had to be a short session as we had my nephews 9th Birthday party to go to at 3pm.  After getting us both dressed up warm I loaded the car and off we went.  

First we had to pop over to my Dads to pick up our tripod for the video camera as we'd left it there during christmas day.

So finally we were off proper to Gingerbread.  When we pulled up at the first gate there we two chaps walking down from the pit.  We had a brief chat and they said the pit was flooded with only a few swims free.  Aoibheann and I decided to go and have a look.

We parked the car near to the second gate and unloaded the car put on our salopettes and wellies and went for a walk around.  After walking around part of the lake and carrying Aoibheann through some of the bigger puddles we decided to head back to the car and try the lakes at Sandy.  On the way back to the car Aoibheann whilst hopping and skipping fell over into the mud.  As you can see from the photo to the right that I took once we arrived at MacGregor Lake on the Sandy complex.

Aoibheann had taken her Disney Princess Rod which I attached a small Goldfish lure and she cast out with the Rod.  Unfortunately I don't think these rods are very good the trigger to cast can be tricky for a 5 year old and the line kept getting caught.  So we binned using that rod and she used my 6ft lure rod. 

We had a few casts around but Aoibheann after 30 mins or so was cold so she wanted to go home.  As we were only a 2 minute drive from Manor Farm Fisheries we went to have a look in the tackle shop.  As we'd forgotten our lunch I bought Aoibheann some Hob Knobs which she tucked into in the car.  Whilst we were in the tackle shop Aoibheann noticed the wooly hats shaped as fished and decided that she would like one.  To be fair she had been so good the last couple of days that I said ok.  I also got her little sister one too as they are cool hats lol.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.....

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