One for the richer pin heads ...

[arbocop]

....and at a lower price it may end up as another Rusty pin. Hope you are well Rusty, just checking your blog.

 

Hello all by the way, I've not been here for a while. Work and family commitments mean I've no time for this sort of thing.

 

Mike

[Alan Roe]

Anybody paying that sort of money for a centerpin wants sectioning!

[Chris Plumb]

IIRC No.1 went unsold for a similar price a couple of years back....

 

 

C.

[Tigger]

Anybody paying that sort of money for a centerpin wants sectioning!

 

 

I wish you hadn't posted that as I emptied my lungs so hard when I laughed they seemed to be stuck together and it scared me a bit as I couldn't breath in ! lol.

[Rusty]

....and at a lower price it may end up as another Rusty pin. Hope you are well Rusty, just checking your blog.

 

Hello all by the way, I've not been here for a while. Work and family commitments mean I've no time for this sort of thing.

 

Mike

 

Hello Mike, good to see that you're still with us. The blog has taken a back seat for a while, this has been the worst season I can remember since starting to fish the Kennet. I have zero confidence at the moment and writing about blank after blank doesn't really appeal. I'm still fishing (just about), yesterday I went to a venue which should have produced chub and it did for an angler on the opposite bank but not a bite for me. Might try a CSAS exchange ticket this weekend for a change of scenery.

[Tigger]

Hey up, here's another bespoke jobby...with two different spools !

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/261389359732?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

[Rusty]

Hey up, here's another bespoke jobby...with two different spools !

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/261389359732?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

 

I’m sure there was somebody on this forum who’d ordered a Lythe with a spare spool but was perhaps regretting not simply ordering two reels, I can’t remember who it was though. A 1915 would have been £475 when he ordered it and the spool about £250 (from memory) so it needs to get above £725 to break even.

 

The seller might still make a profit but I can’t help thinking that the spare spool isn’t adding any value, if I were bidding I’d regard it as just one reel. Unlike a fixed spool reel where the spares are relatively cheap who bothers to change spools on a centrepin if they wan't to use a different line? I bet most people just bung on a different centrepin or reload the one they have.

[Tigger]

 

I’m sure there was somebody on this forum who’d ordered a Lythe with a spare spool but was perhaps regretting not simply ordering two reels, I can’t remember who it was though. A 1915 would have been £475 when he ordered it and the spool about £250 (from memory) so it needs to get above £725 to break even.

 

The seller might still make a profit but I can’t help thinking that the spare spool isn’t adding any value, if I were bidding I’d regard it as just one reel. Unlike a fixed spool reel where the spares are relatively cheap who bothers to change spools on a centrepin if they wan't to use a different line? I bet most people just bung on a different centrepin or reload the one they have.

 

I wouldn't buy a bespoke reel with a spare spool, especially a spool off another model. I do know Chris Lythe promotes the idea as it saves you money but personally i'd prefer to have two different reels.

I did once buy two brand new 2040 Purist spools off ebay though, as when the seller said they'd do me a buy it now of £50 for the pair I just couldn't refuse. I kept one for myself and give the other to little Steve...neither of us have used 'em though !

Edited February 7, 2014 by Tigger

[arbocop]

 

Hello Mike, good to see that you're still with us. The blog has taken a back seat for a while, this has been the worst season I can remember since starting to fish the Kennet. I have zero confidence at the moment and writing about blank after blank doesn't really appeal. I'm still fishing (just about), yesterday I went to a venue which should have produced chub and it did for an angler on the opposite bank but not a bite for me. Might try a CSAS exchange ticket this weekend for a change of scenery.

The Kennet burst it's banks at Hambridge - best keep away for a while. I've been restricted to the black water, Loddon and whitewater for my brief sessions but haven't been out since September until two weeks ago - I blanked too.

 

If the river drops we can go to the kennet again, legering bread for chub. Great. However, I am expecting a baby in March - hoping it will be late so I can get the end of the season in!

 

 

Mike

[viney]

The Kennet burst it's banks at Hambridge - best keep away for a while. I've been restricted to the black water, Loddon and whitewater for my brief sessions but haven't been out since September until two weeks ago - I blanked too.

If the river drops we can go to the kennet again, legering bread for chub. Great. However, I am expecting a baby in March - hoping it will be late so I can get the end of the season in!

Mike

I went to hambridge between Christmas and new year and it had burst it's banks, hate to think what it's like now! There's a tree down in bellwood and the lambourn has burst it's banks at Shaw