Its a good idea to start with a small one piece 3 metre whip. They are telescopic, no reel and no tangles. Ebay have them from about £8 upwards. Go to a local tackle shop and they will be only to happy to help you.
Its a good idea to start with a small one piece 3 metre whip. They are telescopic, no reel and no tangles. Ebay have them from about £8 upwards. Go to a local tackle shop and they will be only to happy to help you.
Great advice. I'd urge you to try your local shop wherever possible Razil as they need a lot of support and the knowledge most of them have is invaluable.
Its a good idea to start with a small one piece 3 metre whip. They are telescopic, no reel and no tangles. Ebay have them from about £8 upwards. Go to a local tackle shop and they will be only to happy to help you.
Great advice. I'd urge you to try your local shop wherever possible Razil as they need a lot of support and the knowledge most of them have is invaluable.
Yes, do use your local tackle shop. Might be a couple of £ dearer but by the time you add P&P and the free advise that the guy in the shop will give you it's a no brainer.
Oh and you other anglers that need a licence, only use rodlicence.net if you want to pay a £20 admin fee for getting your £27 licence (£47 total)
All the lakes mentioned above are good heavily stocked and great for the beginner Also orchard farm is good And mousehole lakes near yalding is good and owner Mick is very helpfull with beginner's Also has bait and tackle and good cafe on site
If you go to lucks lane buy the 'bloodworm floaters' the fish go potty for them. Will be bringing my birds little brother there in a few weeks to catch his first carp. Thats where I caught mine
Used to love my fishing. But weirdly fell out of love with it when I was night fishing. Since then I've not been able to get back into it. But going to try when the weathers nice.
Personal best is nothing special 21lb 7oz common carp from clubhouse pond at darenth lakes, what's everyone else's PB?
Cut my teeth at Horton Kirby as a lad. 6lb 2oz Chub river Avon, 23lb Cod Ramsgate, 3 lb 2oz roach Crowthorne Angling, 22lb Salmon river Tay. No serious carp fishing, too old to grips with all the different tackle and technical stuff and it needs so much damn gear.
32lb mirror 38lb caI Only out for odd days now though when the wheathers nice
Nice. Never caught a catty but always wanted to. Are there any catfish only lakes knocking about?
there are plenty of cats in lakes 4 & 8 at orchard farm if you can get through the carp!! Bit overstocked for my liking but is a nice local fishery to me . I'm quite lucky as mousehole,lucks,frant,orchard,monks,claygate,tricklebrook,hawkhurst are all within 15mins of where i live The only one that has a designated cat lake is hawkhurst where they go up to 80+lb But it does have a lot of rules and restrictions Good luck
My eyesight is not very good. On my iphone I thought the thread title read "fisting in SE London". I then read Greenie Junior saying he had 56 in one day and something about dog biscuits and promptly fainted.........Off to specsavers!
Cut my teeth at Horton Kirby as a lad. 6lb 2oz Chub river Avon, 23lb Cod Ramsgate, 3 lb 2oz roach Crowthorne Angling, 22lb Salmon river Tay. No serious carp fishing, too old to grips with all the different tackle and technical stuff and it needs so much damn gear.
Yup Horton Kirby for me too as a youngster, used to have some cracking fishing.
I'm a member at Edenbridge now. They've got a couple of decent lakes and some nice river fishing.
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Apparently you don't even need a licence downstream of the Barrier! Just dangle your rod off the amenity pier at Erith it seems!
I would recommend Willow Lake from the above as a good place to start.
Good luck!
http://www.monklakes.co.uk/LakesAndRiver.htm
Had 56 in a day just by floating dog biscuits on top and on othe rod luncheon meat
Go to a local tackle shop and they will be only to happy to help you.
Oh and you other anglers that need a licence, only use rodlicence.net if you want to pay a £20 admin fee for getting your £27 licence (£47 total)
Also orchard farm is good
And mousehole lakes near yalding is good and owner Mick is very helpfull with beginner's
Also has bait and tackle and good cafe on site
Thats where I caught mine
Oh and you other anglers that need a licence, only use rodlicence.net if you want to pay a £20 admin fee for getting your £27 licence (£47 total)
Yes I did that last year in a hurry! Got my money back though.
Personal best is nothing special 21lb 7oz common carp from clubhouse pond at darenth lakes, what's everyone else's PB?
38lb cat
Only out for odd days now though when the wheathers nice
Never caught a catty but always wanted to.
Are there any catfish only lakes knocking about?
http://www.downriggershop.com.au/carp-fishing-in-sydney.html
Bit overstocked for my liking but is a nice local fishery to me .
I'm quite lucky as mousehole,lucks,frant,orchard,monks,claygate,tricklebrook,hawkhurst are all within 15mins of where i live
The only one that has a designated cat lake is hawkhurst where they go up to 80+lb
But it does have a lot of rules and restrictions
Good luck
I'm a member at Edenbridge now. They've got a couple of decent lakes and some nice river fishing.
No idea if it's still available.
Just getting all my gear ready for my club start date on 1st June. Can't bloody wait.
It was just generally poorly maintained, old sweetcorn cans left about etc.
3 roach caught in 5 hours - attacked by the resident geese..
Sounds like a proper grueller! Geese and Swans can be a right pain.