John Keane
Well-known member
So you're another bloke who's stood up to his knees in smelly mud catching dace, eels and flatties? Did you ever go to Mollington Lakes after tench in the old closed season? Mason's pit on the Queensferry by-pass? The pits in the fields behind the zoo?
Nope, fished just below the weir on the Welsh side. Caught some nice roach and flounders that we called flukes. Me and a mate used to go out on his lawn at midnight with a candle and catch lob worms that were laying out on the grass. We’d be up at 4am and off to Mollington Lakes before light and put a worm on with a single swan shot and silver fag paper on the line. As soon as it got light we’d be on the float laying on. What a great fishing venue that was. Think it got spoiled by ar$eholes like us coming and going at ungodly hours, banging car doors, talking loudly after they built a private housing estate within earshot. That tench fishing has never been bettered IMO. If you fished on the causeway between the two lakes you had to keep your eyes skinned for bait robbing rats. I was once fishing on the second lake close to a bed of stick ups and hit a fish that just went apeshit and dragged me into the weeds and snapped me up. Big tench or a carp, who knew?