Winfield Tackle.

[Peter Waller]

Anyone collect it?

 

I was, as anglers do, poking round an angling shop today. Wherhay, what do we have here?! A Winfield Shanny and a Swedish made ABU Ellips! For only two quid!! Thanks Tackle Turkey!!

 

The Shanny was an ABU Toby look-a-like dating back to the 60's. The ABU Toby was king back then & Woolies jumped on the band wagon with a pretty convincing copy. ABU, predictably, sued Woolies. It was about that time that Woolies stopped selling fishing tackle. I often wonder if the ABU court case was a deciding factor.

 

Another bit of pointless junk for my wall!!

[Stewart_Bloor]

Now that brings back memories of my childhood days buying Winfield tackle in Wolverhampton. I can remember it as if it was yesterday.

[Andrew Boyd]

They did some good rods, the blanks were excellent ( for their day ) but the fitting were poor. A quick re-whip with new rings and bingo!

[chesters1]

the boat multiplyers were good ,i still have an international 50 ,i wish i could find out who made them after 20 years the handles getting a bit loose as you can see the only bit of corrosion is in the screw heads where 20 years of annual stripdown has taken of the plating,the handles loose as the pin that holds the plastic finger bit has come loose on the crank

 

[ 07. December 2004, 06:37 PM: Message edited by: chesters1 ]

[Jim Murray]

Sure I heard recently that they had plans to sell tackle again, can't find anything on the Net though....

 

Jim.

[ridgeacre]

Chester would that reel be an early Ryobi, it looks like it.

[chesters1]

also looks penn ish,the chrome is excellant cant have been a cheap import sold dear

 

[ 07. December 2004, 08:27 PM: Message edited by: chesters1 ]

[Brian Carragher]

the reason that people say that winfield tackle was good ( yes I bought plenty of it and I still have a few packets of their flies) is because it was Shakespeare tackle sold under woolies own brand and at a lower price than equivelant Shakespeare gear. The tackle trade as I understand it were not too pleased about the deal at the time as woolies were selling rods and reels for less than tackle dealers could buy them from Shakespeare

[chesters1]

doesent look shakespeary

[Peter Waller]

Coincidently I was also told that it was Shakespeare.