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Young Writers Series

December 11, 2002

YOUNG ANGLING WRITERS

Rather than run a competition for young angling writers I reckon it will be better if I give a small tackle item to every young writer who has an article published on this website and a larger bit of kit to the one I consider best each month.

So, if you’re under 16, send in those articles, preferably with a picture or two. Minimum 500 words, maximum of 1000 words.

Email them to me at editor@fishingmagic.com either as an email or as a text file attachment.

We’ll let it run for three months and see how it goes.

To kick off this young writers series here is a short article from Aran Searle who won the Angling Star competition.

The King Pike by Aran Searle

Last year me and my dad decided to do a bit of piking, but for some reason we didn’t get round to it. So this season we definitely planned that we were and one weekend recently we prised ourselves out of bed at 5 o’clock. Or at least that was the plan.

Aran, not with a pike but a nice little carp he caught earlier this year

Me being me, that turned out to be nearer to 6 o’clock. We were going to go to Tyrham Hall fisheries, at Lindholme, near Doncaster. We have fished Tyrham loads of times and caught some cracking fish, including a 23lb carp out of the stock pond, plus my biggest ever tench at 4