Gave 0.00p for this one:
'Nice' foot mod.
Clive - Can't understand why they don't do the Trent anymore - would prefer a different colour though.
Cheers
Bob
by people who had never seen let alone used the reel. It got a reputation that you could not turn the reel to retrieve using your finger through the spokes (you can), and / or that you will have your finger tip trapped or cut off when you try to activate the star drag (nonesense). You alos had the Luddites chipping in with the 'there's no need for a drag on a centrepin......" (but for some reason they are common place on fly reels, multipliers, fixed spool, etc, etc) As such sales never took off.
Here's one from yesterday. Long and Lean.
The glasses were from vision express.
Buy one get one free.
No barbel were hurt in this promotional picture.
www.vision.express.
All these years of top level fishing, and you STILL haven't learned that you are supposed to hold the fish at arms length for a photograph....it's absolutely imperative man! It's rubbish pictures like yours that shake my faith in the long held belief that all fisherman are born with enormous hands 
There may well be members of that group writhing on the floor in pain as we speak I can well imagine that some are unable to turn their PC's off, because they cant bear exposing themselves to that obscene photograph long enough to reach the off switch....shame on you sir!Howard....have you any idea of the pain, stress and possible serious health issues your last post may have caused amongst the Pin Purist element on this forum
Love it
Cheers, Dave.
I must admit that the whole gamut of thoughts you describe David. Then I realised that we are dealing with a treasure hunter. Someone who spends his whole life in search of discarded beer can ring pulls and horse shoe nails. So I guess that we just have to understand and embrace all human life and all its oddities.
clive,when not fishing,i do find a few beer cans,though very few,and nil nails,
as my space age made in france deus detector,discriminates against iron,
and is brilliant at finding,gold and silver coins.
they are that good,that 2 years ago i bought three for my family at a cost of
£3,900 and they have paid for themselves twice over in value of finds
Incidentally, just up the track from where I normally fish in Cyprus I found the remains of a Roman road. There was nothing in the old maps about it, but common sense and a bit of research lead me to a small field in the middle of nowhere where I found ceramics from 3000BC to medieval times. No metal detecting allowed over there though.
Clive,metal detecting in the Uk,much the same as fishing,a small minority
spoiling it for the sensible law abiding detectorists.i only detect farmland
that we pay a fee to the farmer,and all our finds are recorded by St,albans
museum who build a historical database from the info.
Below picture probably equals the capture of a 20lb barbel,i found it last year
1st century pure gold quarter stater of tasciavanus,a neighbour of the Iceni
tribe.
.Which is exactly what many of us think about the Match Aerialhe is abusing
.I must admit you have a point there Clive. The mechanics of the type of reel you are inordinately fond of are probably of a similar vintage
Cheers, Dave.
What are you like Clive