can anyone recall how they felt reeling in there first carp

It was at the park, caught on luncheon meat and 4Lb dackron hook length after trying sooooooo long to get into one I was giddy as a goat.

I can even remember the first carp I ever saw on the bank. Iain caught it at Marden I guess now I would see it as no more than a scraper double but after catching nowt but bits is up until that point it was humungous to me. He cught it on a 9Ft quivertip using popped up bread, happy days, happy days.

When I think back to the fun I used to have with the sh1t gear I started with it makes me wonder why I bothered changing them.

'cos like many of us, you're a tackle tart!

I've loved going back to wandering fly fishing up and down the river tributeries in northumberland and cumria. Because of the miles I walk, and the rough terrain, I only take one older rod with me, plus a waistcoat full of bits.

The lack of clutter is very refresshing and it means that I'm able to cover many miles in a day.

When I go to fish thornborough i take the box, net bag, holdall, rod bag (with at least 3 rods in.....and I invariably fish float on the same rod)......i struggle to walk 20 yeards from the car to the bank....and I don't catch any more, and often I'll have less as it's harder to move to a more productive swim........................but I'm still a bit of a tackle tart, so I'll keep on doing it.

I remember the first time i visited forresters before the club got involved. I remember thinking that it was a bit of a boys own adventure......an unknown pond and I was going to fish it with a tub of worms and a telescopic rod I had in the car. That was one of the best trips I've ever had.

i can remeber my first carp at the park it was when the hot weather was here, it was 14 pound common.

cant even remember what i had for my tea last nite!!!

if i remember rightly i either felt stoned or pissed,maybe both!!

not as good as i felt when i heard gary had his rod pulled in by a tench!!

your not going to live this down ian you twat

for under water fishing would you not be better with a spear gun

and a spear gun would be a lot lighter then the set up your using at the mo,plus you might not be scared to put a bend in a spear gun,who thinks fergs bait boat is crap lets have a vote!!!!

i was at killy small lake on match gear and stripped of and lost it after that marden quary first carp was about 8lb on match gear then got the bug

i cant remember my first carp,but that happen's to us brilliant anglers,as my friend terry(hearn) used to say,"neil has been sent down by god to show us how to catch carp"!! when jacko and frank came to mine for a cuppa tuther day i posed the same question to them and they couldnt remember either,like i say paul when you catch as many monster carp as us guys reality and fiction sometimes blur to create nonsence!!!

mine was a double out of marden quarry, on a seven foot wand (quivertip), caught on popped up bread.cast to an island in two foot of water, the conditions were less than favourable with northerly winds ,bright sunshine , gale force winds, torrential rain, driving snow thunder and lightning,and a very high barometric pressure of 55,001 if i remember correctly, oh and it was very busy with dog walkers as it was the great north dog sled championships that day. oh and hutch fell in! tsunami

Can you think of any sessions at Marden when I didn't fall in?

when tou fall in, can you think of any times greenpeace havent been buzzing round you in there little inflatables,shouting "keep it wet" and "we'll tow it back to sea it's looking a bit shabby now"!!!