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Richard Isaics and Andrew Burks on this forum are perfect.

Thanks Paul 👍

Go on then Rich, you get one first 😎👍.

Thanks for that Richard, you should be a salesman ! Downsides of the rod for me in your "excellent description" are that reel seat, those guides, and then the softer tip. The stiffer tip of the speci acolyte is one of the things I like about it as it helps me strike the hook home when trotting...

Usual routine chasin' chub today, but I had to walk a looooòng way in order to catch a few! Finnished up with 8 quite decent fish, but deffo not worth the effort needed to catch them. A couple of pic's from the session...

Thanks Steve 👍

As above, this a unused reel, mint condition. As with most of my reels I have doubles so I won't miss this one if it goes, plenty of others for me to go at lol. Price is 220 posted. Not a lot to say really, the pictures should speak for the reel....

As above, i'm letting this mint example go due to having about another 30 or more centrepins and have more on order 🤪. Anyhow, this reel is a lovely looking reel and works perfectly. I've used this reel a couple of times but it is as new. Price...220 posted. Check out the pic's as the best part...

So, i''m going to let a Greys Bewick go. I've used this reel several times but I look after all my gear and it is still in as new condition. It's a 4inch reel and is a true centrepin reel, so no bearings. It really is a lovely reel and the ratchet button is positioned in the best possible plae...

I had some maggs and defrosted corn left that needed using up so I thought i'd pop out for a quick couple of hours chasing chub this afternoon before the strong winds and heavy rain rock up. There was no rain forecast for today but as I set off the rain started, I should know better than take...

I've been using a nash scope 10ft 2.25 test carp rod coupled with a centrepin reel spooled up with 6lb daiwa sensor. The nash scope rod is ideal for the purpose.

Well done Richard, crakin' fish, even more so as it was by design ! 🙌 I'd rather have seen it next to the rod and reel than next to your boat race 😉🤣.

I can take 'em or leave 'em really, so long as it's a bickerdyke guard. No problem wally casting with a bickerdyke guard, even better if it's the large full smiley one you get on the later youngs Triton. I think i've seen those same guards on other later youngs reels also so possibly they are...

As Mark has already said GM will most likely sort you a line guard and the screws out. You can use the reel without the guard attatched in the meantime though. Lots of people prefer to remove the guard when using the reel.

Talkin' korum rods, I got a korum opportunist rod, after using it one time I noticed my line was seriously kinked. I checked things out and it was the guides, they were the minimal things which had a kind of thin metal liner. Anyhow, the liner had got slices in a couple of them and I was lucky...

I tried using a number of avon style rods for trotting a float and they all felt awful, soft in the mid and bottom sections so slow when striking and horrrible to mend line. I eventually dropped on the hardy marksman specialist and the marksman supero 11ft avon rods. These rods proved to be...

Obviously the float rods are for float fishing, but you can use them for light legering of you want to. Very often if nothing has obliged whilst float fishing I have removed the float and added a link leger which has produced fish right away. I have used the plus models for that purpose, but...

I've had a few drennan tench float rods Rich, they did make them in 12ft 9 to 13ft. The tench rod I finnished up keeping is a drennan super tench float rod. I've had lots of barbel with it and it's a beltin tool for the job. Only downside with the rod is the fact that it has sliding reel...

I decided to have have my first but short lived trotting session of 2025 this afternoon. The river was dropping off, but was still over a meter up so not exactly ideal wading conditions, not that I was planning to wade in a river full of snow melt anyhow lol. I opted to fish off the bank on a...

Check out Richards new floats in his thread "New floats available" they look like belters!