Tigger
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I don't like the new baitrunners - the clutch doesn't seem as good and the build quality feels inferior. I managed to get hold of a good second-hand GTE last year from ebay so I have 3 of them now. It is very hard getting hold of the GTEs second-hand (have a look on ebay - I bet there aren't any, or very few) which I think tells its own story...
(I mean the original GTE Aero, not the new GTE-C or -B or whatever - loads of them!)
EDIT I just had a quick look on ebay and actually there are a fair few about at the moment - this is unusual, so if you want one, now would be the time!
I'm a fan of the gte Aero 5000 and the 8000 but I also like my 5010' s , 8010's etc.
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To cut it short i never did get to look at a Harrison as i PMed tigger and he forced me into buying a Normark Avenger off ebay.
Thanks Ian its a lovely rod that ticks all the boxes even the softer tip one and that dream 2lb roach hasn't a chance now.
Hang on Brian I only had your arm twisted up your back....hows that forcing LOL. I just hope it does actually get you that 2lb plus redfin m8
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It was lot 41 0n the July 2009 auction with a guide price of between £200 and £300 but looking at the prices realised for that auction it did not sell for whatever reason. It does look very similar to a Lythe apart from the handles.
I thought the handles where quite smart. Thery look like timber of some kind. Your right TT it does have a look of a lythe.....a bit better even !
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No not really, Ive been going flat out at work the last couple of weeks. Have you?
I had a couple of blanks at the spot we went to then, third time lucky got a 3lb+ chub and a small trout of all things. I had another go Saturday just gone and got three chub all around 2 1/2 lb.
Went down the severn last week and appart from a very large pike that took a likeing to my cheese paste which after 4 to 5 mins it grated the line and parted company nothing was up for it.
All in all pretty fishless Brian....and horribly cold !
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I guess it wouldn't be so different fishing for carp on a commercial type fishery. None of the size 18 hooks I have look strong enough to give me confidence after one was bent partly straight by a chub a couple of weeks ago. Do most people use hooks to nylon or tie your own? And what hook type can you recommend?
I use a kamasan animal hook or a drennan super spade. In the size 14's I cram 10 maggots on and have no prob's whatsoever with hook up........just make sure you strike like a panther !
Never had either straighten or cause me to loose a fish.
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Some of my other float rods (which I like nearly as much as the normarks) are the drennan im8 and im9 range.
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i mean theeeee past 20 to 30 years ago,price has never been indication of quality they were in the same region as those dire DAM rods
I agree that a high price doesn't always get you the best or anywhere near it but in the case of the normark float rods I think it does. I like them anyway so they'll do for me
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Hello I have decided that once it warms up a bit I fancy adding 2 or 3 fish to my list of captures. Instead of my usually Chub and Perch I would like to try some local streams for 3 spined Sticklebacks, Bullheads and possibly Stone Loaches. My question is what size hooks do you suggests? I thought I might use squats, pieces of redworm and bloodworm so would i need hooks around the 24 size? I fancy getting a pen fishing rod for messing about with little fish and would fill the reel with 1lb line and simply freeline the baits past rocks were the bullheads will be lying up and through the shoals of sticklebacks. If anyone has any tips then they will be gratefully received. Thank you.
For sticklebacks you don't need a hook. If you just tie a worm onto a length of cotton and watch the fish latch onto it, wait till it gets one end into it's mouth then just lift it out. I used to do it all the time when I was a kid.
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No I didn't, not even sure if ballraces hide behind the badge. I saw a similar reel (I think) being sold without the badge and it was fitted with cup and cone bearings. Can't see way to unscrew anything so I'm reluctant to start levering bits out.
I wouldn't go prising at the badge either but I've been told that's the way to get to the bearings. I think you get to the Arnold kingpin the same way as I think there made exactly the same(without a pin and locking nut on the backplate). Maybe it would be worth you asking Gary mills if he knows how you get to the bearings ?
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Ok then,
This looks quite nice, a highly regarded reel I understand.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...e=STRK:MEWAX:IT
I'm now sitting on my hands.
What about this one then.....better colour than your's http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/The-Barbel-Catcher-c...=item27af944efa
Rusty, did you ever find out how to change the bearings in your swallow?
I think you go behind the centre badge on the front of the spool ( I been told that's how but I'm not sure)).
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I hope there's room for us Lancastrians again
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Worms, you are at it again, "in your expert opinion" they would "prefer to eat the small fish"....Wingham is full of large fish....eight pound tench galore.....Big Macs for Otters.
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Wingham must also be full of smaller fish if not then there's something amiss, maybe the fish are on contraseptives ....doubtfull
. On the last fish in there was a hatch and the top of the water was bubbling with roach...surley they're smallish fish Den. -
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we have hoards of magpies and jackdaws around here (same everywhere i suppose) i watched a buzzard being blitzed by a mixed vigilante pack of them it didnt stay around for long
big big birds but a bit like bombers and fighters of ww2 .The magpies are a bit hard around here we watched a rabbit being killed by a flock last year
Only way magpies would kill a bunny is if it was already on it's way out through injury or mixied.
I used to have a very large tree in our paddock and one day witnessed a fight over an old nest in it. It was two pairs of magpies a pair of ravens a pair of buzzards and a pair of carrion crows all after the nest, the noise was pretty raucous to say the least. The winning pair was the carrion crows.
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4lb river perch or 30lb river pike
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A 30lb pike would be nice, then the 4lb perch a week or so later.