Richard Isaacs
Senior Member & Supporter
Coming from an engineering background I love improving stuff or making stuff and I’m always finding ways to utilise my small home workshop to bring my ideas into practice.
I’m a huge fan of swing rests. I think the idea of the rod always at 90° to its resting point is brilliant despite the angle and I’ve always used swing rests for years for my static bait fishing.
Its been long on my list of things to do to make my swing rests a little more 3ft twitch proof. I’d be telling fibs if I was to say I’ve never taken my eye off the game to find my rod quickly dragged off the rest and heading down the bank.
While my new modification isn’t there to completely stop the rod coming off it does buy me a few extra seconds to get my head back on the ball and could potentially save an expensive mistake.
Let me introduce the first swing/barbel rests finished at the weekend
Very simple. An aluminium mechanical stop that I machined then drilled and threaded into the rest. A big improvement to an already brilliant product. Copy if you wish.
I’m a huge fan of swing rests. I think the idea of the rod always at 90° to its resting point is brilliant despite the angle and I’ve always used swing rests for years for my static bait fishing.
Its been long on my list of things to do to make my swing rests a little more 3ft twitch proof. I’d be telling fibs if I was to say I’ve never taken my eye off the game to find my rod quickly dragged off the rest and heading down the bank.
While my new modification isn’t there to completely stop the rod coming off it does buy me a few extra seconds to get my head back on the ball and could potentially save an expensive mistake.
Let me introduce the first swing/barbel rests finished at the weekend
Very simple. An aluminium mechanical stop that I machined then drilled and threaded into the rest. A big improvement to an already brilliant product. Copy if you wish.