Kahlan Godmanchester Rec Fishing After Work

Having taken Aoibheann to the Fishing competition last week.  I thought it only right to take Kahlan for a quick session after work on Friday 3rd July.  At Lunchtime on Friday Kahlan and I walked to the Tackle Shop and got our Maggots.  Kahlan wanted Red and Bronze Maggots unfortunately they didnt have any Bronze.  So we went with the tried and tested Red and White Maggots.  After work Kahlan and I walked down to the Godmanchester Recreation Field.  We found a swim in the bottom right hand corner where there were concrete steps leading down to the river.  We could see plenty of fish at our feet.  This time I had only taken the Whip and again only used size 18 Hook and 2 lb hook length.  We pretty much caught immediately :).  As the photos show all small Dace.   After a bit of time regularly feeding micro pellet and maggots the perch started to move in.  The biggest was this 5.6 oz.  Which is by miles the biggest Perch Kahlan has caught.  So big (for her) she wasnt too sure about holding it lol.  After the Perch pictured it was time to pack up as it was already past Kahlans bath time.  On the way home we stopped off to buy Mummy some flowers too.

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Godmanchester Junior Fishing Competition 2015

On the 27th June Godmanchester community held the annual Junior and Senior Fishing competitions.  To qualify you need to have been a student at one of the local Godmanchester Schools.  As Aoibheann is now at one of the local schools she qualified for the Junior competition.  The details are on the flier to the right.

On the Friday before the competition Aoibheann and I walked to the tackle shop to purchase our Maggots.  Aoibheann choose 1/2 pint of Red and 1/2 a pint of White Maggots.  We also got a 1/2 pint of Pinkies.  Once we got home I added some pineapple flavouring to the Maggots along with some Strawberry Groundbait to help flavour them.

The next morning Aoibheann was very excited about the competition.  We got our gear ready and waited for Aoibheanns cousin Ollie and Granddad so we could walk down together for the draw.  The picture to the left is of Aoibheann waiting.

We drew peg 21 which was around the back of the recreation ground.  Not a great swim lots of weed and we were quite high up from the river with a sharpish slope down.  I set up 2 rods and a whip for Aoibheann.  The first rod was a simple float with a size 18 hook 2lb hook length set about 18 inches from the float.  The second rod was a exactly the same but the hook was set to sit just on the bottom of the riverbed.  The whip was set the same as the second rod.

The competition was for 1.5 hours and in that time we had 8 fish (Dace and 1 Gudgeon) for a total weight of 3 oz.  This ended up with us being somewhere around the middle of the 30+ contestants.

The main thing of course was that she really enjoyed it.

And of course she got her medal :)









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