Am I too far gone, to ever return?

[Neil Smart]

I'm looking at these particular Shakespeare rods with great interest - the question I have is where have you found a set of tips, both quiver and swing that fit them. I can't find any info online as to the diameter or screw thread size, and don't want to end up with a rod that I can't use properly. Would love to know if anyone has got one and found a supplier of appropriate tips.

 

Pete

I have a couple of old swing tips that I used on the Cotswold Water Parks years ago, and managed to bank some nice tench with this method.....but the method is very limiting, distance and the constant 'your rod's broken mate' jibes....A good quiver tip is far better, imo, if you would like the swingers, then just let me know.

Edit..

Had a rummage around and I have a few rods, some older John Wilson Avons, c/w with end thread, and a nice as new Daiwa Avon, with the cross weave, a great much loved rod by some, but is not being used by me.

Edited November 28, 2016 by Neil Smart

[Zeddedhed]

I have a couple of old swing tips that I used on the Cotswold Water Parks years ago, and managed to bank some nice tench with this method.....but the method is very limiting, distance and the constant 'your rod's broken mate' jibes....A good quiver tip is far better, imo, if you would like the swingers, then just let me know.

Neil, if you don't want the swingers I'd be more than happy to take them off your hands - PM me and let me know what you want for them and we'll sort something out.

 

Pete

[Neil Smart]

Thanks for all the replies gents.

barbelbarmy has hit the nail on the head with my thoughts on the tackle shops I've been in. It's been the same since my two local shops went under and closed. I don't do ebay.

All my thoughts on starting back in June this year had to be shelved due to a few family problems, followed by my own apathetic feelings. My partial excitement at the anticipation of a 'new start' waned as the year went on, except for the occasional fluttering in my stomach when passing a particularly 'interesting' stretch of river.

Still, there's always 2017, it has to be better than 2016......fingers crossed.

 

John.

Hasn't been a brilliant season for me personally, I was chatting to the latest holder of the Severn Barbel record last Friday, and a very good Angler too, he has had 38 consecutive Barbel Blanks, but is still as keen as mustard. I too am getting a bit jaded, and I intend to have a go at the Lady Of The Stream... soon, and of course the Roach are making a bit of a come back John. Try limiting yourself to a couple of hours, and perhaps some trotting will ignite that spark again.

[Martin56]

Hi Zed - I believe it's you who'd like these??

 

I also have a swing tip (1) you can have for nowt' - I'll never use it again, I'll even foot the postage to save messing about.

 

Put a quid in a shop's a charity box - That'll do for me!!

 

The screw thread is in the BA range of threads (6 or 8 BA I think- because I borrowed a tap from work once to clean one out)

 

One of the very few perks of being an Engineer by trade + I get to make some bits & pieces now & again, being on afternoons - when it's quiet.

 

If you're interested - can we do it early new year?? - I've a lot on just now, + going away soon.

 

Martin.

Edited November 29, 2016 by Martin56

[Zeddedhed]

Hi Zed - I believe it's you who'd like these??

 

I also have a swing tip (1) you can have for nowt' - I'll never use it again, I'll even foot the postage to save messing about.

 

Put a quid in a shop's a charity box - That'll do for me!!

 

The screw thread is in the BA range of threads (6 or 8 BA I think- because I borrowed a tap from work once to clean one out)

 

One of the very few perks of being an Engineer by trade + I get to make some bits & pieces now & again, being on afternoons - when it's quiet.

 

If you're interested - can we do it early new year?? - I've a lot on just now, + going away soon.

 

Martin.

 

Martin, you are a true gent indeed sir. Obviously happy to wait until new year - I'm unlikely to get to use them until early spring anyway - I'll be busy going after the feral Carp in my local farm pond - they haven't been caught for several years but I KNOW they're still in there. They were never stocked into the pond but since it's stream fed I guess they've found a way in, along with the swarms of 1lb to 2lb Perch.

 

I'll PM you with address details and start dunkin' loose change in charity boxes in your honour.

 

Pete

[Neil Smart]

Neil, if you don't want the swingers I'd be more than happy to take them off your hands - PM me and let me know what you want for them and we'll sort something out.

 

Pete

Whatever I have got you can have, don't want anything for them, happy that someone might have a use for them....do you have a rod that can be used as a 'swinger'?

[Zeddedhed]

Whatever I have got you can have, don't want anything for them, happy that someone might have a use for them....do you have a rod that can be used as a 'swinger'?

I do indeed - a Daiwa Avon Specialist type thingy with two different end sections - one full length but threaded for a swinger, and the other abbreviated to take push in quiver tips, of which I have a small assortment. None of them were originally designed for the rod so it looks like a bit of a mongrel once set up. I've been using it with a totally buggered Abu Cardinal reel dating from early 70's by the look of it.

 

It's a 1.75lb TC and although I got it second hand and it's a bit beat up cosmetically I've already grown quite attached to it. It's caught me my biggest fish so far in my short and unspectacular angling career - a very pretty 9lb 13oz Carp from the Medway about half a mile downstream from the Leigh Barrier. It's sort of my lucky rod, but no doubt that will change when I catch a bigger fish on a different setup.

 

I quite like the idea of adorning it with a floppy bendy bit - it can't really draw more derision than it already does, and I quite enjoy setting it up next to the 'hardcore' River Carp Army who seem to change their gear every time every time Fox or Nash bring out a new bit of kit. I see it as the antidote to being a tackle tart. I guess that makes me more of a tackle 'bag lady'.

[Martin56]

I have a Drennan Red 10 foot Carp feeder rod, I was informed by the shop where I bought it that the rod also takes the Daiwa push in tips - It must follow then that the Drennan push in's will fit a Daiwa??

 

The Drennan Red comes with 2 tips - 1 1/2 & 2 oz TC.

 

I generally use the 2 oz tip - most bites on the commercials I fish are about as subtle as a flying Mallet, It's a huge risk pouring a cuppa without scalding ones legs in the process!!

Edited November 30, 2016 by Martin56

[Neil Smart]

I do indeed - a Daiwa Avon Specialist type thingy with two different end sections - one full length but threaded for a swinger, and the other abbreviated to take push in quiver tips, of which I have a small assortment. None of them were originally designed for the rod so it looks like a bit of a mongrel once set up. I've been using it with a totally buggered Abu Cardinal reel dating from early 70's by the look of it.

 

It's a 1.75lb TC and although I got it second hand and it's a bit beat up cosmetically I've already grown quite attached to it. It's caught me my biggest fish so far in my short and unspectacular angling career - a very pretty 9lb 13oz Carp from the Medway about half a mile downstream from the Leigh Barrier. It's sort of my lucky rod, but no doubt that will change when I catch a bigger fish on a different setup.

 

I quite like the idea of adorning it with a floppy bendy bit - it can't really draw more derision than it already does, and I quite enjoy setting it up next to the 'hardcore' River Carp Army who seem to change their gear every time every time Fox or Nash bring out a new bit of kit. I see it as the antidote to being a tackle tart. I guess that makes me more of a tackle 'bag lady'.

Not being pedantic, but a 1.75 t.c is not really an Avon, mind you they have been made under many guises recently, I think I am right in saying that a true Avon is just 0.75lb t.c. Might be worth checking the model number of the Daiwa, they are very much sought after by the 'tarts', it could be you are in fact poncing around putting the Nash boys to shame....

Had a look at my swing tips, I have few more somewhere but what I have found look ok, but are minus the screw, an easy fix. I could send if you pm me details,, I have a load of gear that I don't use, and a few reels that you might want, don't want anything for them.

[Zeddedhed]

Not being pedantic, but a 1.75 t.c is not really an Avon, mind you they have been made under many guises recently, I think I am right in saying that a true Avon is just 0.75lb t.c. Might be worth checking the model number of the Daiwa, they are very much sought after by the 'tarts', it could be you are in fact poncing around putting the Nash boys to shame....

Had a look at my swing tips, I have few more somewhere but what I have found look ok, but are minus the screw, an easy fix. I could send if you pm me details,, I have a load of gear that I don't use, and a few reels that you might want, don't want anything for them.

I've sent you a PM