My first fishing trip

It was my first time fishing, I had just gone out and bought a rod, reel, 4lb line, maggot box and a fishing box that you can sit on.    Ben and I set off to find somewhere to fish that was not that expensive to fish.
The place we found was called Horsham lake in Upchurch.  It is quite a big lake and was only £3 a rod, so we went along the muddy road to the lake.  When we arrived at the lake it was about half past six in the morning and there was hardly anyone there.  By the time we set up it was about seven o'clock and a few more people had arrived.
Well any way it was about half eight when I caught my first fish, it was only a small roach under a 1lb.  Then about ten minutes later Ben asked me to bring over the landing net as he had hooked, what he thought, was a big fish but it was only  a baby carp weighing 1lb 6oz.  After that neither of us had bites until about half past eleven when I hooked quite a big fish which turned out to be a 3lb 4oz carp. I was happy with this catch for my first time fishing.  From then on neither of us caught anything big enough to be proud of so we started to pack up at about ten to five and then I went home and told my mum about our day out fishing and she asked if I would like to go again and I said yes.

David Hyland
Aged 15.