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Dave H

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CAN YOU WALK PAST A TACKLE SHOP?  

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  1. 1. CAN YOU

    • YES BUT THE LURE IS SO TEMPTING
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    • YES IT IS NO PROBLEM
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    • NO I DO NOT HAVE TO NEED ANYTHING I HAVE TO POP IN REGARDLESS
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    • I CROSS THE ROAD OR WILL JUST DIVERT ..ANYTHING.
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Dave H Member

Dave H

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Mrs Hawk and i have been married for 26 years and she said something today that made me laugh and i thought i think that is right. She said......'Oh know not again, you have never ever been in a tackle shop and come out with nothing?.....I said...It will only be 5 minutes?....She said ...Nope you will chat and chat and chat buy something and chat and....I said I have not been in here for 16 years...She said...No difference...?

 

Well, a couple of leads and some line and a cup of tea and a chat and 1 hour later we left the tackle shop....Mrs Hawk...Raised eye brows and that look and silence...

 

You gotta laugh haven't you :D

 

Just a light hearted poll on your angling addiction... :g:


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Don't know if I really answered the poll correctly to be honest! I put that I can pass a tackle shop no problem but maybe that wasn't really true! I suppose in all truth I have to look (just in case!) but very rarely buy! Ive not brought gear on a regular basis for many many years.Basically because I have so much,nothing new interests me and what I do get is normally sent to me or I buy on line! Normally the buy on line is simply because what I want isn't in my local shops but in one case its a bit different!............................

 

I am a self confessed Ebay addict! I buy buy buy! not even because I want or need it but often purely because its so cheap! My loft is on the verge of collapsing and it takes the combined efforts of myself all my fishing mates and non fishing mates to keep on top of it! (and I still fail!)

And thats my "non indicative opinion"!

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i can walk past any tackle shop

 

i fish simple and a little primitive to lots of anglers and so i do not need all the razzamatazz new stuff

 

i order bits on line and only visit tackle shops to buy bait and i know that is wrong and they will all go out of business but i only have so much money and so have to buy at best price

 

tackle shops are boring places full of magpies and jay hawks thinking the new sparkly bit of fools gold will catch them the best fish

 

ebay supplies me with what i need and at a good price and no need to have shifty guys looking at you with contempt dressed as toy soldgers

Azree

 

“Let us see rather that like Janus—or better, like Yama, the Brahmin god of death—religion has two faces, one very friendly, one very gloomy...” Arthur Schopenhaur


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Most of my tackle is bought online, and as I rarely use maggot as bait I probably only see the inside of a tackle shop a couple of times a season. My local tackle shops mostly cater for sea anglers, so there's rarely much for me to look at anyhow.

 

We do have a big angling direct shop a few miles away, but as it seems to mainly cater for carp anglers, and the prices in the shop are higher than on their own website I don't very often go in there either!!!

 

"proper" old fashion tackle shops seem to be becoming a thing of the past. I even buy my floats online now as none of the local shops have a decent selection.

 

In my youth living in south london I used to spend hours in "rod n line" at lewisham - even if all my paper round would pay for was the stuff in the "seconds" bin.

 

 

 

Mat

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Don't know if I really answered the poll correctly to be honest! I put that I can pass a tackle shop no problem but maybe that wasn't really true! I suppose in all truth I have to look (just in case!) but very rarely buy! Ive not brought gear on a regular basis for many many years.Basically because I have so much,nothing new interests me and what I do get is normally sent to me or I buy on line! Normally the buy on line is simply because what I want isn't in my local shops but in one case its a bit different!............................

 

I am a self confessed Ebay addict! I buy buy buy! not even because I want or need it but often purely because its so cheap! My loft is on the verge of collapsing and it takes the combined efforts of myself all my fishing mates and non fishing mates to keep on top of it! (and I still fail!)

 

LOL...I am starting to find that Budgie with building up my tackle. I have cleared out a lot of my Falconry gear and most I did not know I had. But when you think that tracking telemetry is over £1000 and many more bits to go with it are over £500 + things like I did not even need 5 years old un-packed and I have just sold for £200 . Not much more but little bits that in job lots are a few pounds. I expect you would do the same.

 

One thing I have learned over the years though is if the items are re sellable such as in fishing Reels then buy quality. In the 2nd hand market they will sell for quality . I brought the latest bait runner years ago the Shimano 6010 , 8010 etc etc. My mates said I was mad spending that amount of money but after my fishing best buddy died I could not carry on fishing so I sold his and mine on E-bay. He was always the cheap skate and me a bit of a quality. He would buy a cheap reel. When I came to sell both lots of tackle we more or less had the same equipment. The difference I got compared with his was at least 5+ more on each item. He had a cheapish Bivvy and I had the latest Fox. Mine (bearing in mind this was 16 years ago) went for about £150 and his never sold. I sold it to this lad who wanted a cover for his ferret hutch for gutting 12 rabbits for me.

I am however not being so dramatic this time as I can't afford too and I do feel this lot will be totally abused until I pop my cloggs. Although I still have bought quality in where I think it makes a big difference in performance.

I bought a shimano brand new reel took it out the box (it was £50..E-bay) looked at it and put it back on e bay and I did lose £15 on it as it was ****! but with the same money I bought a 2nd hand 6010 for slightly more!!

 

I can't walk by a tackle shop now however I drive past two quite regular but there is nowhere to park which saves my bacon so to speak.

I find though that with tackle shops there are so many items all crammed together you end up going round the shop ten times to get a disgorger and then it's oh I might have that and this and you walk out without the disgorger and find what you did get you have plenty already...LOL. That's why e-bay in my view is cheaper as you put in fishing disgorger choose what you want pay for it and walk away.

 

That’s unless you eeeerrr...press one of the options at the top...DAMN :schmoll:


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In my household a tackle shop is one of those places where the wife would prefer to wait outside, or even if she did come into the shop wouldnt say a word as she would not be able to comment on ANYTHING.... these moments are magical and far and few between.... its like our garage, thats very much my domain and I think the wife has been in there a handful of times in 3 years! :-) its a safe haven of calm and tranquility.... much as a tackle shop... :-)

 

Cheers,

 

Stu...

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BUDGIE,

 

I bet you've missed the newest - greatest "carrot protein" or "carrot fiber" fishing rods then. Soon you will be an old antique yourself.

 

I HAVE to go in! (I tell Mrs. Phone "just for a second" - - - - I lie)

 

Phone

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BUDGIE,

 

I bet you've missed the newest - greatest "carrot protein" or "carrot fiber" fishing rods then. Soon you will be an old antique yourself.

 

I HAVE to go in! (I tell Mrs. Phone "just for a second" - - - - I lie)

Phone

 

 

And indeed that to an extent is very true old friend! When I do go in to a tackle shop these days (just to be polite,let them know Im not dead yet or to use the toilet) I stand staring at the walls with all the carp stuff on feeling as familiar with it and as interested in it as I do when Im in B&Q looking at all the screws,nails and fixings...................... :rolleyes:;)

And thats my "non indicative opinion"!

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And indeed that to an extent is very true old friend! When I do go in to a tackle shop these days (just to be polite,let them know Im not dead yet or to use the toilet) I stand staring at the walls with all the carp stuff on feeling as familiar with it and as interested in it as I do when Im in B&Q looking at all the screws,nails and fixings...................... :rolleyes:;)

 

I am thinking that since I have been on here Carp tackle and indeed the individual who is a carp only specimen hunter runs as an analogy to my Rudd specialist. I am getting a troublesome warmth about this. Nothing of a individual or sombre nature just a smidgen of exasperation.


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There are no tackle shops near enough to wander past :(

 

I can not remember the last time I came across a tackle shop by accident

Stephen

 

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