{"id":17588,"date":"2014-08-13T17:12:34","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T16:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=17588"},"modified":"2015-04-02T20:42:35","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T19:42:35","slug":"holiday-family-fishing-balloon-glow-big-pit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/08\/holiday-family-fishing-balloon-glow-big-pit\/","title":{"rendered":"A Holiday with Family – Fishing, Balloon Glow and The Big Pit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our family summer holiday moved into it’s next phase, following on from cycling to John O’Groats to Lands End<\/a> and then a day or two on Bodmin Moor we were now at my parents house in South Gloucestershire for a couple of days. We arrived at around lunchtime on Wednesday afternoon and had arranged for my Dad to take Morgan fishing at a local lake. The were going to go on their own at first but Morgan wanted me to go with them so off we went, leaving Anna to relax on the sofa!<\/p>\n

Fishing<\/h2>\n

The lake was one that a local farmer had recently opened to the fishing association\u00a0that my Dad is part of and was apparently well-stocked with carp. My Dad hadn’t fished it much before and there were quite a few rules about who could fish it and the permits and licenses you needed. This meant that I couldn’t actually fish, but Morgan being a child could as long as he was with my Dad who had the necessary permits. I therefore was just am onlooker.<\/p>\n

My Dad helped Morgan set up a carp pole which seemed fairly straight forward and then out went the bait. We tried a few bits if luncheon meat as bait when fishing on the bottom, but also bread on the surface and managed to catch fish with both techniques. It was god for Morgan to finally catch something as we’ve had no luck so far, but it also seemed a little too easy here. Morgan had fun though and enjoyed his fishing with Grandad. I quite enjoyed watching them as well and had a nice little stroll around the lake at one point. There were loads of carp just basking in the sunshine on the other side of the lake so when they had finished fishing we all went for a walk around the lake so that I could show them where they were.<\/p>\n\n\t\t