Touch legering and rolling baits

[Huanzhou Zhu]

Just picked up the new Drennan Specimen 1.5lb, same weight as my Shakespeare Solitude 1.25, coming in at 197g, nicely balanced too so will be nice to hold it for long sessions. All my other rods can now be sold.

I'll probably pick up the new 11ft quiver to eventually and those 2 rods will cover nearly most of my fishing I'm doing on the W.Avon. I could have gone for the FS River tamer but I also like to support my local shop which is ran by a good friend so I shopped there in the end.

I am actually rather disappointed with the drennan specimen rod and the quiver. Not the rod, they are good, but the drennan’s marketing, I somehow feel they just split the old dual tip rods into two different rod.

But yeah, if you could, support the local shop is a great thing to do.

 

[Julian Griffiths]

Torrix 11ft 1.75 and 4000 fixed spool reel loaded to the brim. Can't see the point in persisting with a 'pin if you find it difficult to cast.

I to went for a recent 11ft 1.75lb Torrix, I've seen it said on here many times over the years how many of you preferred this rod for that style of fishing.

 

[Julian Griffiths]

Thank you everyone for the advice and input

For the time being I have a Avon rod that I can use but moving forward then investing in a more powerful rod that's not heavier is something I can look into

Regards the method and the use of a pin, I just need to make a change, my barbel result last season was extremely poor by fishing far banks with leads and feeders, if I keep fishing this way I'm going to get the same results. So this season it will be closer in, less time in swims, covering more water to find these fish.

For what it's worth, 90% of my barbel fishing took place close in

 

[Jon Elliott]

I use much the same rods listed here. Reel wise I'm happy using a 4000 Shimano stradic or similar...

Worth practicing on the Trent to start with - it gets your confidence up.

 

[Steve Sorrell]

I use a River Tamer for this type of fishing. The only thing I would say, is the handle is too long. Years ago, I had a Harrison 1lb 6oz made up with a 20" handle (so it didn't overhang my elbow) which was perfect.....wish I hadn't sold it now
Make sure the rod you choose for rolling meat has a fastish tip so you can pick up line quickly on the strike.
Good luck.

Steve

 

[Keith Humphreys]

My recently acquired Rolling Gear (yet to be used for that purpose) which I christened with a couple of Barbel at the start of the season.
I hope to have a go at rolling next season.

 

[Keith Humphreys]

My recently acquired Rolling Gear (yet to be used for that purpose) which I christened with a couple of Barbel at the start of the season.
I hope to have a go at rolling next season.

The rod is based on a 1.6 TC Harrison Avon blank to my understanding? The reel is built by the sadly now deceased Dave Beale who was a very good angler and accomplished engineer, producing centerpins from his home workshop close to the lower Dorset Stour.
this example has a very good side cast mechanism which I believe to be a forerunner of the Walton Pin.

 

[Mark Evans 2]

Looks a nice reel, and just from the view, the reel seat mech looks very similar to what we were building at Youngs in the Rolling Pin. Probably my favourite of all the reels we built out of Redditch.