Well kids wonted go course fishing today ,where I been working since last September .and worked on this site before, I got know the landowner . I asked if he didn't mind my kids wetting a line in is little pond . He gave me permission ,and wouldn't except no money ! ,happy days ..it's only a little pond ,with nothing else in it but carp carp and more carp lol . There was only a hand full of commons mirrors and ghosties put in when it was dug ..they spawned that well over the years ,I swear you could walk over there backs there that many .it full to the brim ,to many lol ...had a heavy thunder storm in the morning while packing the car put it soon past . Jack and Alfie started tackling up while I set about feeding the hungry tribe .
Using pole and maggot first they where soon catching ,Alfie caught this little cutie to start the ball rolling first..
Then they where banging them out maggot ,corn ,Libby and Freddie where sailing little paper boats they had made ,and they where even trying eat them lol ,never seen anything like it ,it hey where very hungry fish !!..
Then the heavens opened ,jack got a brolly ,but little lib and Freddie and Alfie ,I made take cover in the car untill it stopped .an hour later ,my head was battered stuck in the car waiting for it to go off ,with three very excited kids who just wonted to go out in it , made me feel like I was an old man lol ,but they would have been like drowned rats !!..let me out !!! It's stopped lol ...
They soon got back into action older jack helping his little bro Freddie out on pole ,so proud !!
Little Libby getting in the action ,minus her teeth lol!!
Jack the lad !
Little Freddie
I pinched a little go of jacks pole
This went on for few hours ,they where filling there boots . Had to drop little Freddie of at is mums at four o'clock as he was going his mates party !. When I got back the boys where fishing the other side of the pool on floating bread.look at this picture ,it's paved with them !
It was gettin on a bit now and I had to be the big bad meanie to tell them pack up as Libby had had enough and it was time to get back and have some tea !, they been there for seven hours time flys by when your fishing .ohh dad! Dad five more minutes five more minutes ,ok ok lol!
Then Alfie stole the show
They must have caught about fifteen pound of carp here ,with they didn't put in keep net as it was on the other side of the pond ..can you remember what it's like when your a kid when you come to pull your net out and weight your catch ,it's amazing .. Back when I was knee height of grass hopper I was brought up on a canal boat ,used them old keep nets with massive mesh lol , it was like a gudgeon gill net ,used have more that swam into it than I'd put in ..happy days !!..end result thirty five pound in net ,and the rest they put back ,they easy had fifty pound of fish ,commons mirrors and ghosties ,where they happy you bet .. Got home grapped a take out ,couble vodkas and chilled with the kids ,telling me what a great day they had had ,and how much they loved it ,life no better than that job well done !!!!
Till next time .......