Item of tackle you wish you hadn't sold.

[Joe Winstanley]

I absolutely hated the X aero
Couldn’t of flogged mine quick enough.

Im so glad they went back to deeper spool skirts on the XR

The x aero was fine for long chucks to a clip or feathered down hard but it was boardering on useless for an under arm cast at short range because of that stupidly shallow spool skirt and line guard that actually picks up your line and takes it under the spool. Terrible design!

Thank goodness I didn’t end up dealing with a barbel on it but Ive hand lined a couple of chub with them before enough was enough.

As I think we've discussed before I've never had that happen once, but then I'm always casting and feathering down when tenching.

 

[Richard Isaacs]

As I think we've discussed before I've never had that happen once, but then I'm always casting and feathering down when tenching.

Totally different use of the reel Joe. I had mine strapped to a Harrison Avon quiver tip rod used for flicking a piece of bread under arm on small rivers.
If you were prepared for it you could make your cast then tighten down carefully while guiding the line away from the back of the spool but if you forgot…….. potential disaster!

 

[Richard Isaacs]

I'm confused. Isn't the X-Aero a baitrunner, and the XR a match reel?
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The x aero was both I think. You could get it as a match/feeder reel or baitrunner

Edit. No I am wrong. The x areo is a baitrunner and the aero feeder reel was basically the same without the baitrunner.

 

[Christian Tyroll]

One more regret, Eels - The Final Frontier by Steven Ricketts. I bought it when it first came out for £25 and sold it for £80 I think so can't complain there. Don't fish for eels but it is a really good book and in hindsight its one I would like to read again, just because its so interesting. I'd already read it 3 times when I sold it but have a brain like a sieve.

 

[Terry Harman]

Not an item of tackle as such but it did used to take me to and from fishing

 

[Haydn Clarke]

One more regret, Eels - The Final Frontier by Steven Ricketts. I bought it when it first came out for £25 and sold it for £80 I think so can't complain there. Don't fish for eels but it is a really good book and in hindsight its one I would like to read again, just because its so interesting. I'd already read it 3 times when I sold it but have a brain like a sieve.

Well, if we are talking books then I deserve to be given a thoroughly good wedgie for selling Terry Lampard’s First Cast. As for selling Jeff De La Mura‘s Hooked On Floats - guilty your honour! - then only a damned good beating will suffice.

 

[Steve Foran]

3 fox Duo lite fx 2.75 TC 2 Harrison torrixs 2lb.tc 3 shimano thunnus 6000

 

[Christian Tyroll]

Not an item of tackle as such but it did used to take me to and from fishing

That's a beauty. Always wanted one of these, will never have one

 

[Terry Harman]

That's a beauty. Always wanted one of these, will never have one

Not unless you have a spare 20k knocking around

 

[Ian Woods]

I foolishly sold two pairs of daiwa tournament whisker kevlar carp rods, a pair of 1.75 and the other pair 2.25 test. I think they were 11ft long or a few inches longer, maybe 11ft 9inch. The rods where pencil slim and had a superb action for barbel fishing.

I also sold, a used twice by myself 13ft 2inch daiwa tournament amorphous stick float supreme spliced rod.

The reason I sold all the above rods was because of the reel holder. It held a reel perfectly well and solid, but, it also scraped the paint or anodising off the reels, badly marking them. Not good if you have a fancy reel.
I used to use the old shimano 5010's on the whisker kevlars as they didn't noticeably mark being a graphite material.
On the stickfloat supreme I put some tape on the front half of the reel foot to stop the damage.

Those are the the rods I shouldn't have sold!

I shouldn't have sold the 5010's either.