Lower pool-Quarry Trethurgy

   The lower pool is limited for swims,,ummm like ah one and a bit.Better size perch & half a dozon BIGGER carp than top pool,good size roach & rudd,sweetcorn does the ***** on me bubble waggler method.

Dem carps likes worms
a few roach from lower pool=)

Penwithick pit


This is deep in places but has a soft bottom.BTW many thanks who ever cut the trees back,also thanks who left the well made weed rake (orange rope) excellent thought.As well as good size roach 15lb bags and resident brown trout lurks some big growly things I've seen carp in there and iv'e seen long grey narrow things mooching around?Sweetcorn,maggots and paste do well for the roach on a bank yank stick-pole.Waggler fished sliding is good fun but look out for the weed around the edges!

I like it here the water is always a blue-green colour
CLICK THING
small brown, went back for another day.

Some of what you say is true and some not so. The link to local boys fishing, well so much of that is bull, their records are between friends as I know of bigger fish from several of these 'venues' using the term lightly.They also referance a couple of RAC lakes including small pool T which most certainly is a club lake.

I think our attitudes to this vary somewhat, young lads enjoying a bit of fishing is one thing but grown men of which we are talking about is something different. A licence allows you to fish but you must have the landowners permission. These gents know this and choose to flaunt it. We have enough in the club who fish off the back of others hard work without having nonmembers leaching as well.
   
Carn Grey pools were great for kids to learn to fish and IMO the carp that were introduced was a really bad idea. Perch over 4lbs from top pool plus some good rudd introduced I believe from Lantern, a very dangerous place where I believe a child died years ago. Bottom pool had roach over 2 1/2lbs plus huge perch and again some big rudd.

And you are correct that Molingy Quarry has been filled in by Jack May the landowner.

Sorry if I came across a bit arsey, unfair on you as I don,t know you, but making sure the record is set straight so to speak. The RAC committee did try to contact the individuals a few years ago regarding this but I believe there was no response. They were not club members and were not fishing a guest ticket.

Lantern I think has been sold by Imerys around the same time we bought Rashleigh. A friend of mine in his fifties now, fished it in his teens by tying himself to the trees as the banks are so steep. So it would be 40-50 years ago that a child died there but 1 is too many.

andy rice wrote:

Sorry if I came across a bit arsey, unfair on you as I don,t know you, but making sure the record is set straight so to speak. The RAC committee did try to contact the individuals a few years ago regarding this but I believe there was no response. They were not club members and were not fishing a guest ticket.



  Lantern I think has been sold by Imerys around the same time we bought Rashleigh. A friend of mine in his fifties now, fished it in his teens by tying himself to the trees as the banks are so steep. So it would be 40-50 years ago that a child died there but 1 is too many.

I used to fish Lantern back in the late 60's when I lived at Rescorla. That is where I first learned to fish along with a few other Rescorla boys. There were a lot of BIG roach and rudd in there. I don't remember anyone drowning in Lantern but I do remember a kid drowning in the pool where Heny Orchard's scrap yard is now. That used to be full of perch in those days. Used to fish Wheal Anna over at Bugle as well - it is part of rocks pit now. There also used to be another pool behind Penwithick pool that we called Blackhouse.That had some big rudd in it. Happy days - all a long time ago.

What happened to the big perch in Carn Grey Top pool?
Aint seen any for years. I once hooked a monster while fishing in the side on a 3m whip, fishing single pinky , 20 hook, on about 3lb bottom,......i managed to hold it for a few seconds, saw it, it was massive but it obviously got away