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A friend and I found the Valley Disgorger a few years ago here in the Netherlands and we were very enthusiastic about it. After a search I ran into Anglersnet and found the name of Allan Taylor. When I tried to contact him I heard from Sonja that he was no longer among us because of a terrible illness. :(

We paid a visit to Sonja and she said it would be very nice if someone would continue what he started and couldn't finish. So we found the maker of the Disgorger and found out that they were not on the market anymore and we were able to buy the rest of the stock. Beginning of this year we drove to London to pick up the Sea Disgorgers to begin with. We only had to have them plated and instead of chrome we now have them shiny galvanized because we believe that is better for a salty environment . Because Disgorger is a word Dutch people will normally not remember easily so we renamed it to Fast Hook Release. We started selling the Disgorger in Holland and now we think we are ready for the British market. Since a few days we have an English translation on our site and we hope we can help the fishermen who never got the chance to get their hands on a Disgorger.

At this moment we have a large amount of Sea versions in stock and a limited amount of medium versions. For now we don't have stock of the Mini Match (small version). But in case of urgent need for this one we can always look into it.

So if it's allowed, her is our site: TR Fishing and we hope we can make fishing a little nicer and easier for everyone. And feel free to let us know what you think of the product in our guestbook or on this forum. :P

 

I hope this message is not impropriate.

 

Rob

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The message is very appropriate and it is nice to hear they are available again.

 

I have two of the originals - a large & a small. They work wonderfully.

 

How is Sonja doing? My wife & I would have met her had Alan lived a bit longer since we planned our UK trip with a stop there and Alan to fly to the UK with us for some fishing. Unfortunately he passed away before that could happen.

" My choices in life were either to be a piano player in a whore house or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference!" - Harry Truman, 33rd US President

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Newt, a few weeks ago I sent Sonja an email to let her know how we are doing with the Disgorger project but unfortunately I haven't got a reaction back, so I hope everything is okay with her.

 

I will keep trying to contact her and will let you know when i reached her.

 

Rob

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Thanks. Alan had and she has many friends on this forum including some like me who had never actually had the pleasure of meeting them in person.

" My choices in life were either to be a piano player in a whore house or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference!" - Harry Truman, 33rd US President

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The boys from Holland recently renewed their Dutch and UK language website Trfishing and even reduced the prices for the medium and large Fast Hook Release. More and more UK fishermen found the way to the website and are helping to make this great product to become a success. We now even supply an English manual with every disgorger.

 

Rob

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Thanks for letting us know Billie :)

 

I took the opportunity of buying several from Alan all those years ago, and still remember him when I use them. Still sadly missed.

John S

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Species caught in 2016: Alder, Blackthorn, Common Ash, Crab Apple, Left Earlobe, Pedunculate Oak, Rock Whitebeam, Scots Pine, Smooth-leaved Elm, Swan, Wayfaring tree.

Species caught in 2015: Ash, Bird Cherry, Black-Headed Gull, Common Hazel, Common Whitebeam, Elder, Field Maple, Gorse, Puma, Sessile Oak, White Willow.

Species caught in 2014: Big Angry Man's Ear, Blackthorn, Common Ash, Common Whitebeam, Downy Birch, European Beech, European Holly, Hawthorn, Hazel, Scots Pine, Wych Elm.
Species caught in 2013: Beech, Elder, Hawthorn, Oak, Right Earlobe, Scots Pine.

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