First Fishing Rod...

[wheres the fish?]

Tell me this if you can

What was your first Fishing Rod?

What was the first thing you caught on it and where was it caught?

What happened to it+ where is it?

Mine was a Masterline C-Catcher 9ft Peir Rod.

First fish was a 38cm coalfish from blyth jetties.

It got broke while in northwest scotland, near shegra beach. And now lives in my fishing cupboard with loads of other rods that need rebuilding.

 

[curtis.dunn]

mine was a 6ft £5 rod from home bargins and a coley down the side of of north shields fish quay

 

[garyp]

Mine was an ABU 484 zoom caught a 1lb ish codling on the blast beach, sometime around 1982-83 ish?

 

[lingking]

mine was a milbro something or other

first fash would have been brown trout

on a river on rannoch moor

the fash would have been eaten,either by my family or one of the 14 dogs

the rod:question: god only knows:exclam: probably snapped and burnt

 

[SIXFOOTSTEVE]

I bought an old Diawa rod and fixed spool from a lad at work , my father in law took me down to the Royal Quays to show me how to go on.

My first fish was a tiny whiting but I was the biggest thing hooked that day.

 

[g.ordon]

First fish for me was a gudgeon, caught five that day at killy lake on an old fly rod that the old man had shortened for me by slamming his boot lid on it.

 

[david.northeast]

Mine was a shakespeare navigator 12ft
First fish was a flounder of a out 11oz

Gave it to simon88 1 month ago and is now his 1st rod

 

[big sid]

Highlander (2nd hand)
Teeny Weeny Codling
Blast Beach (Me thinks)

 

[davidhayley1945]

mine was a five foot bamboo cane with ten lb line tied to the end,on the end of the line was split shot wih a size 16 hook to nylon,spent all summer catching halon baby coalys on cullercoats pier ,mind you this was 1950. davy

 

[white water]

mine was a 10 ft pier contender and 10 oz coalie down the side on middleton pier

 

[lug]

you lot must have better memories than i have lol

been fishing 23 years and cant even remember my first rod or fish

i do remember my best combo daiwa moonraker the red blank one with a abu 6500c syncro where you wound the handle back to release line

 

[anthony stobbart]

My first rod was a mitchell contender 12ft with a intrepend 90 fixed spool and my first fish was off roker was a double shot of whitting one was 2lb and then on I was hooked.

 

[g-force]

My first rod was some sort of solid fibreglass, green spinning rod from Temples in Whitley Bay (must have been all of about 6 or 7 years old) & first fish was probably some sort of sprat or tiny coalie caught from Blyth harbour.

Early teens, my first beach rod was an 11ft fibreglass yellow Temples rod, with cork handle & big chrome reel seat paired with a Mitchell 602ap multiplier (as recommend by John Holden in Sea Angler lol!) - got my first codling on that from Whitley beach. I can't remember the specifics, but in those days I lived a couple of minutes walk from North Skeer & would just walk down and fish when I could somewhere along the beach.

When I got into club fishing, got my first "proper" rod (again from Temples), a fibreglass Conoflex DC6, 13ft 6ins with 5ft of dural butt & an Abu 12 multi for use with heavy line. From there the addiction set in........

Gary

 

[Simon88]

thats right david.northeast now have a olympic each caster n av cought 2 coleys on it on sunday after none but that rod u gave me will be out again wen a get another reel lad.

 

[wheres the fish?]

Keep em coming lads nice to see how everyone has such different beginnings and all ended up in one place

 

[fish fingers]

mine was a mk1 hardy tourny with fuji guides on and a old 7000 c belonging to my dad cracking set up for its day first fish a coaley of geordies jetty in the tyne

 

[Red5]

A clothes peg, with 4lb line, limpet for bait and fish caught was a 4 inch Shanny. Off the skeers at Boulmer as the tide flooded and they came out of their holes.

First Proper rod, Normark Black Medallion, first fish on it was a 6 inch Coley from Cullernose.

 

[Rod]

First rod was an 8ft split cane rod I got secondhand for ten bob,first fish on it was probably a coalie as we used to fish in the south dock at seaham a lot as kids.First beach rod was a milbro 12ft glass rod and used it with an abu 9000 i got for xmas,sometimes used an alvey sidecast reel.

 

[Davey-m]

first what i call proper beachcaster was Daiwa sea harrier 4-8oz rod and abu 7000 reel 1st fish on it was a coalie from hendon prom next to the pipe.

 

[tooly]

Sealy blue 6 ft spinning rod with a Black Prince reel.First fish a small browmie from the Coquet.