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Mike Donovan built Long Range Tench rod.
Built on a Harrison Interceptor 12' 1.75lb blank
John Roberts sliding reel fittings.
Harrison state:
Very slim blank designed to cast 1 to 1 1/2 oz bombs 100 yrds, with a crisp action that can easily take up a long line and plant the hook. However this...
Snowbee original float tube with solid closed foam seat and back rest so like an armchair and will float even if both side bladders fail and also much quicker to set up. Comes with original padded rucksack straps (new price £280)
Also included is a pair of spare bladders with valves (new price...
JW Young Bob James centrepin reel, model 2080.
4 1/2" diameter and 1" wide.
In mint condition other than a small rub mark on the rim in the 4th photo, it is small and difficult to capture.
With box, paperwork and case.
One of the original reels dated 2001, used a couple of times, spent its life...
Adcock Stanton centrepin reel 4½"x1" in excellent virtually unused condition aluminium construction with brass pillers knurled rim for control and metal reel seat, not the plastic version, this is all metal. With ratchet knob on the back so can be used for trotting or legering .
£110 posted
11'6" pair of factory built rods, SiC guides.
Used a couple of times but I tend to use one rod so these don't get used so are in excellent condition.
I also have the rod bags with them
£320 collected from Wellingborough Northamptonshire
I have a pair of these I bought for the times I don't want to use my centrepins but found that I always want to use my pins!
New with papers, boxes, spare spools and spool filler shims in fact everything you would expect buying a new reel.
£220 delivered next day.
Will take some photos over the...
Thought I would pass this on as I have got on so well with the bags and boxes over the last couple of years and the prices are now ridiculously low as the bags have been discontinued.
I have 11 of the bags and boxes for different set ups and find them perfect for an angler who doesn’t take the...
I have been using these in sizes 4, 6 and 8 for absolutely years, am I on my own or are there others still using and winning with such an old hook?
Chub, Barbel, Carp, Perch and Eels, it always seems to catch and hold.
Am I missing out on the new styles of hook?
This isn't intended as a kick manufactures thread so please don't let it become one.
I have just bought a 2nd hand Raven centrepin, in another league to the 2 Youngs centrepins I received direct from J W Young & Sons recently and much more like the reels Youngs made 10+ years ago, goes to show...
As an owner and user of a number of Purist, Walton, Bob James and John Wilson models of Youngs reels I thought I would treat myself to another model the other day so ordered a new reel and waited for delivery.
When the reel arrived I noted the delivery documents showed that the reel had come...
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