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    Match Aerial

    There's a huge difference in value between the Match Aerial (which was the last Aerial made by Allcocks in the 1960s) and the similarly-named Aerial Match, made for one year only (1939) before the factory switched to production of materials for the war and the moulds for that model were...
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    100 year old rod

    What is the total length of the rod when assembled? Four-piece split cane rods are quite unusual unless made specifically as travel (or poacher's!) rods, in which case they're often for spinning (fits with the use for mackerel) or fly fishing. As you suspect, the value is practically zero...
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    Pope / Ruffe

    I suppose people only get nostalgic about ruffe when their local waters don't contain any - the Macclesfield Canal is full of them and they're a real nuisance if you're fishing worm for the perch. But not as much of a nuisance as the signal crays. :rolleyes:
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    Recommend me a new rod holdall

    I've got the Korum 2 rod quiver and the first thing I did with it was remove the shoulder strap. I never seem to get on with shoulder straps on any make of quiver or holdall, but find the carrying handle very comfortable on the Korum and I'm never carrying so much that I need both hands free for...
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