Tuesday pudding club

After yesterdays lunch club a pudding club followed Tony was in with a good flounder

Cameron was wrestling with a dab not sure of the outcome I think it was a pin-down hold

As usual no bites or fish for me( I must un-blank before feb)
Phil the bill arrived for a visit
Simon also fished 5 in all and a good time was had

nice one

Well done on getting out again.

Topman Tony, i've alot to learn mate.

Well done everyone.

A cracking Flounder there!

good report/pics well done all

Daytime flounder from the point! It`s almost like the good old days.

But then deja vu isn`t as good as it used to be is it?

squidward wrote:

Daytime flounder from the point! It`s almost like the good old days.

How did it used to fish in the summer?
Any chance of something interesting?

I knew that Mike "Fairziff caught a whiting in there last year sometime.

Tony Lever wrote:

anthony@fish-jensen wrote:

Tony Lever wrote:

One of the best fish I've caught from Rhyl was a 3 1/2lb Plaice............... from the Marine Lake.

now thats a venue I bet very few forum members would have known about

It was nearly 45 years ago, John Povah had had the idea of turning the Marine Lake into a fishing lake with day tickets etc. Most of the boat skippers would bring back live fish from the boat trips and put them in the lake. At the time they didn't drain it every winter so they thrived in there. It had a good head of flatties, whiting, codling mullet, although I don't remember catching any doggies in there. We used to go down with coarse tackle and float fish "The Well" catch a load of dabs, keep them in a keep net, and put them back at the end of the session. The day I caught the Plaice I was spinning for a Salmon. for those who can remember, our salmon stocks were devastated in the 60's by a disease called Columnaris. somebody had caught one of these fish and instead of destroying it had put it in the lake. I was spinning with a No3 Mepps hoping to catch it , whenI got a hit. I thought it was the salmon, but was quite surprised when I realised I hooked a Plaice. I can remember taking it to the Marina Garage to have it weighed. Joan Spiller, the owner refused to weigh it, she said I caught it "dragging" down the river. It wasn't in particularly good condition, if it had been, it probably would have gone well over 4lb. Unfortunately John Povah couldn't convince Rhyl Council that a fishing lake was a good Idea, and within a couple of years the Lake was drained and the fish dissappeared...... or have they?????
http://www.sunnyrhyl.com/?p=793#more-793

not much of a suprise tony that john couldnt convince rhyl council that it was a good idea they only listened to ideas that spent thousands of pounds and were doomed from the start for example the super dooper monorail , the childrens village,to name a couple

Some great stories there chaps of days gone by.

Thanks very much.

Steve.

Tony Lever wrote:

Steve, did you come into our shop yesterday (Caldo Rhuddlan) I didn't see you but one of the lads said you were there.

yes i was in the shop needed some waterproof grease .
a lot of the fish that were put into the marine lake came from when we were shrimping at the time you wernt required to have a veil in the net so everything had to be riddled and sorted by hand.i bet you can remember getting buckets full of king ragworm from there aswell used to sell ours to william roberts