Fishing With The Cullens: Aoibheann's First Carp

On the 27th July 2014 I took Aoibheann to Fenland Fishery for a few hours. We could only commit to a few hours as we had a Family BBQ around my in-laws. We got to the lakes around 8:50. The shop doesn't open until 9:30 so we got set-up and started fishing.

Aoibheann wanted to use her rod so I set it up for her to fish a few feet under the surface. We started using red and white maggots. Aoibheann pretty much caught straight away with a small roach. Roach were the main course for the morning.

Once the shop opened we reeled her rod in and went to pay. Once again I only had to pay for one adult with two rods as Aoibheann and I shared a swim. On the way out of the store I saw some plastic fake corn which I purchased. From the last time I was here with my youngest daughter Kahlan we were catching a bigger stamp of fish on corn. My thinking was that with Aoibheann only just learning to cast we may lose the real corn on the cast.

Once back in our swim I set up a rig to fish a wafter on the deck with a simple ejecting lead system. Once I had cast out I put the fake corn on to Aoibheann's hook and he cast out again.

Within seconds she was into her first carp. She squealed and clung on for dear life as her rod bent around. I helped her bring the fish in as shown right.

Over the next few hours Aoibheann caught several Mirror and Common carp as well as a few Roach. She counted 24 fish in total. Over these few hours I had several carp all off of the wafters.

Aoibheann's largest fish is shown to the left which was a mirror carp to 3lb 2oz. Her biggest common was 1lb 6oz.

The video to below shows Aoibheann casting :)

The fish I caught are shown below.