Last week I ran the four day beginners course at Frobury Fishery and the venue lived up to its expectations.
The group was from Connexions e2e and were a pleasure to teach. All fished with an enthusiasm that was a joy to share and all caught plenty of fish, including the caseworker Kym Nielsen who caught her first ever fish. Most of the fish were small carp up to about two pounds but some tench and rudd were also caught. The fish seemed to prefer sweet corn despite being offered red maggots and soft pellets, we fed heavilly with red maggots, hemp and pellets and most of the fish were caught on five metre whips. On the last day one of the girls, who already had some experience of angling with her boyfriend, used a rod and reel and caught some carp with a float fished worm.The students and the caseworker have already put some very kind comments on the initial post about this fishery.
This is an ideal venue on which to teach beginners and I wish it was closer to me. Some of the other lakes produce bigger carp and I will be running courses for the more experienced anglers there in the near future.

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hiya martin, i’ve just seen our pics thanks for everything hopefully this weekend i mite beat my record we just really don’t no where to fish we wanted to find sumwhere different ave u got any ideas where we could fish? i really want u to coach me again i had a great time and i’m now using ur knot u tought me.i’m going to try and get a pole soon i think an 8m pole would be best for me how much would u be able to get me a browning 8m pole for its just i’ve looked everywhere and there at least 100 pound would u email me plz thanks again hope to here from u soon natasha.
Comment by natasha emmett — May 27, 2005 @ 7:01 am
hi martin
i’ve been fishing the river thames alot at the moment i’ve been catching alot of bream and chubb on saturday i caught 23lb of bream i had a bream about 8lb or more it was so good we fished on childbeale email me bk. hope to hear from you soon tasha
Comment by Tasha — October 10, 2005 @ 4:01 pm