Recent content by Bob Watson

Never had a problem with online shopping, even with returns. Sadly it's the future for local vendors. One of my local tackle shops failed to "go online" and do mail order and went under a few years ago. Another opened up, went online straight away and is doing quite well. Angling direct get...

I have a pair of 10ft 3lb helicals and for the money, they're great. I wouldn't hesitate to buy helicals in the 1.75 or 2.25 The former come with two tops, avon and quiver.

Horlicks does the job👍

QD conversion parts. https://www.customreelking.com/product-page/daiwa-gs-ltd-quick-drag-kits Edit,, I thought the SS series were covered on here, I have seen the parts listed online. I used these for my GS4000 Edit again...

I bet you put them up for sale soon;)😁

I've recently bought one of these ready for some summer floater fishing and I put one of these on. Without yet using it, it does seem to be silky smooth. I put the qd on in case I put the rod down for baiting up etc and get a quick take.

I have an old Swiss army knife (huntsman) that my son found in the street over 25 years ago, he wanted to give me it, the small blade was snapped but everything else is still perfect. Brilliant bit of kit that has proven very useful (even the snapped blade) over the years! One of these would...

£88 with discount code or £87 here

Great minds....... Our lass has just bought me this I've always fancied one and couldn't think of anything else, I'll be piking down the syndi' with it during the holidays👍

The problem with that rig in the video is it's asking for a bite off, A pike could take the bait, carry on upstream and bite through the mainline. The bait won't flutter straight out from the sub float, it will hang down in all but the fastest of flows with the subfloat above and the mainline...

I'll take these if still available Rob (again) for my son. Let me know if you still have or need my details again.

I only mentioned that I couldn't take it apart, I'm not having problems with it Chris! I didn't mean to infer otherwise;)

I can't recall exactly how long I've it but I'd guess at about 20 years give or take, only ever had a couple of issues with it, once when piking on the water mentioned to Chris above when the temps during the day changed quite a lot from a freezing cold to relatively warm (or vice versa). The...

No Chris. I can get at the widget from both ends of the outer pole, ie, I can remove the butt cap and remove it from the back or simply slide it out of the front without removing the butt cap. I'll take a pic, the top one (which I remembered as being black but I must have remembered the very...

I have the NGT ones on all of my made up rods ready to go, either in quivers or loose on top of the barrow. I sometimes don't use a quiver if I'm using a barrow.