Tom's first fish

This will be a memorable day - and with the help of this blog, he'll be able to back up his story when telling the fishing tale to his buddies.

We were at the lake at 7am - quite rough this lark. A Thermos of hot chocolate helps sooth the soul. After about three hours of funny weather: intermittent rain and overcast on a falling barometer of 1003.3kPa; Not much wind and a calm murky lake; Tom caught his first Rainbow trout. A nice sized fish of about 35cm.

I had one earlier so it was one each for the day's fishing. Not many trout were biting and we only saw one other being landed across the lake. The falling pressure may have had something to do with it.

Tom actually fought quite a bit to land his trout. He had it over some reeds and the fish just wanted to go the other way. He was quite excited as he landed the trout between two clumps of rushes. Some other fishermen had been chatting to us at the time and were quite complimentary to Tom about his fish. He at least hooked one and they hadn't had a bite.

We had the trout that I caught yesterday for lunch. They had been in the marinade for 24 hours and I lightly cooked them in a pan with butter. They were still pink in the middle of the fillets. Everyone at lunch was impressed with the tender and flavoursome fish.