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 :)
Blog Later......
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