A holiday and unexpected fishing adventure

So we recently returned from a two week family holiday to Norfolk. This is very reminiscent of a similar trip over twenty-five years ago with my parents and siblings. Back then, I was just starting fishing and really did not know what I was doing. Back then, we had a house boat which we ran up and down the broads. I think for the whole holiday I caught perhaps two small roach (I was restricted to using bread as bait).

This time out, I was the 'adult' and I took the kids age 4 and 5 to the bank a couple of times. It was surprising how they really took to handling the bait (maggots), chucking it out, casting the rod etc. Still, there attention span was too short to really sit around for an hour. Their first bash at fishing was two years ago when we went to Devon on holiday and we took the kids to Tavistock Trout Fishery. They had a nice children's pond full of eager rainbow trout and the kids bagged some one and a half pound trout which we ate. It really was a case of cast in and pull them out though - still good fun for all.

Fast-forward two years to the summer holiday in Norfolk and I took my fishing jacket with me just in case we got 'a chance' to do a spot of fishing. And boy was I not disappointed...