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Lovely photo Ian, I do love the river specialist too, best purchase ive made in ages (although im looking forward to my Triton arriving). -
I think for the sake of marital harmony, I will declare myself officially disinterested in this rod 😆
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Ian Woods replied to the thread How much are you prepared to spend….I Yea, RC's reels are brilliant, but for me personally, CL's reels are the best of the bunch, and by a country mile. I also liked GM's...
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Ian Woods reacted to Huanzhou Zhu's post in the thread How much are you prepared to spend… with
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I am not very impressed with Paul’s reel, much prefer Richard Carter’s work. And of course, for even modern one, Chris Lythe. Garry’s... -
Ian Woods reacted to Haydn Clarke's post in the thread How much are you prepared to spend… with Haha.
Just because he’s asking that much, don’t mean he’ll get it though. The Witcher reels are lovely and there’s a certain amount of...
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Ian Woods replied to the thread How much are you prepared to spend….I had a a much nicer mkII model and sold it for 1600 a few years back. I think the Bistern is the most sought after of the witcher reels...
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If you want to know the history, get a copy of this and brush up your Italian. From what I understand, the origin is similar to the...
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Ian Woods replied to the thread Chasing chub.....After todays experience I don't think i'm ever gonna go trotting/wading in air temps of 6 degrees which were made to feel much colder by...
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Ian Woods replied to the thread Trotting rod.Heres one of the things I found Alan...
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Ian Woods replied to the thread Trotting rod.I have seen some of the china/ orienatal ones Alan, but no, the vids I watched were in europe, the anglers had rounder eyes lol.
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Ian Woods replied to the thread Trotting rod.I remember getting some dodgily sourced daiwa telescopic bolo rods for a m8 of mine way back in the 90s. I do remember that they had a...
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Exactly. They are essentially a long telescopic rod with weights you can add to the back to balance them up. Not for me. I appreciate...
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I might be teaching you to suck eggs, Alan, but they originated in the Bologna region of Italy, hence Bolognese, or Bolo. They were long...
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Ian Woods replied to the thread Trotting rod.Not for me, but here you are....
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I’m a big daiwa rod fan boy but I also agree that the stuff coming out of Scotland nowadays can be built shoddy, more often than it...