HOOKING your first fish must be a real buzz for any seven-year-old, but when he landed a 7lb 12oz brace of perch Jack Morrison quite rightly got a little over-excited.
Fishing at a southern stillwater with his father John and uncle Bernie, Jack waited all day for a bite, and was finally rewarded an hour into dark when his feederfished maggot hookbait was picked up by a huge 3lb 13oz perch.
“I was overjoyed to see him playing the fish in - he got so excited and kept shouting ‘I’m in, I’m in!’,” Jack’s father John told Angling Times.
As if that wasn’t enough, the schoolboy then proceeded to hook another giant 10 minutes later while his father was away in his uncle’s swim.
“The next thing I know Jack’s shouting ‘I’m in!’ all over again and I couldn’t believe what I was seeing when an even bigger perch came to the net – my brother and I ended up biteless at the end of the session,” admitted John.
Jack beat both fish on 4lb mainline and a 2.6lb hooklength to a size 18 hook baited with double red maggot.