Priceless tackle?

[Neil Smart]

So Bob Gill wouldn't sell his custom spinning rod to Rob, and I commented that everything has a price....only for Graham to say it doesn't.
Got me thinking, is there anything in your tackle collection you just would not sale, at any price?

Mine is the Dave Mason Barbel Rod.

 

[Mark Swaby]

A 1960's built Centrepin reel made by my Dad who passed away 18 years ago. Christened with a 15lb 4 oz Kennet barbel on its first outing around 15 years ago.Retired and not used it since, weighs a ton,maybe due its second outing.

 

[Graham Elliott]

Guiding for Barbel and Memories and Milestones No 1 's
There's a surprise!

 

[Chris Jones]

I sell very little because I largely value things more highly than their market value. However, if someone was desperate enough, I don't believe that anything I have would be priceless.

 

[Mike Hodgkiss]

My wooden float box made for me by grandad for my 10th birthday , used continually since 1967 and still going strong

 

[Bob Watson]

I don't think there's anything I wouldn't sell, but my most reluctant sale would be my Daiwa avon 1.25lb powermesh.

 

[Neil Smart]

I don't think there's anything I wouldn't sell, but my most reluctant sale would be my Daiwa avon 1.25lb powermesh.

Nice rod, have one , mint, but despair at the lack of screw in tips.

 

[Joe Winstanley]

I have a pair of specialist rods (approx 1.75-2lb tc) that my late father had built by Bob Morris on early North Western carbon-fibre blanks. They must have cost him a small fortune at the time, and I know how hard he will have worked to pay for them. Sadly due to his failing health, he never really got to use them properly. They are lovely rods...very thick, almost glass-fibre like in diameter compared by modern carbon rods, but they have a lovely action which bends right through to the handle, and they are suprisingly light. I still use them occasionally for carp and tench, but mostly I keep them because they serve as a reminder to get out and go fishing while you can, and never to take my health for granted.

 

[Howard Cooke]

These. Had to wait two years for the Barder to arrive. Both this and the Witcher pin might end up in my coffin, with me.

 

[Cliff Turner]

My first I-Power built by Bob, bought in memory of my Dad who I used to fish with, still kiss it every time I use it and say a few words to him.

 

[Graham Tremble]

My albums, every time I open them I am transported back in time.....lovely memories....
Regards,
G.T.

 

[Paul Matthews]

My late father's old Allcocks 'Flick 'Em' centrepin............ Has very little monetary value, to me it is absolutely priceless.

It would require a life changing sum of money for me to part company with it..............

 

[Paul Richardson]

Terrible hoarder. I keep telling Mrs R my gear is her pension pot.
My hand-built rods are all named after late dogs - bit soppy but always makes me smile and would never sell these.
Even my cheap old stuff has a story to tell, so happy to keep them as worth nowt

 

[Steve Roffey]

I would hate to part with my Chapman's F J Taylor roach rod, don't use it much but it was a 50th birthday present from my sons so big sentimental value.

 

[Dave Brooksbank]

This thread could easily lead onto tackle that you've totally and utterly regretted getting rid of,one item I kept is my Ivan marks lightning float rod that I've had since I was fourteen,over forty years ago which I will never let go.Just wish I still had my collection of mitchell and Abu reels and handbuilt custom rods from 1980 amongst other stuff.

 

[Bob Watson]

This thread could easily lead onto tackle that you've totally and utterly regretted getting rid of,one item I kept is my Ivan marks lightning float rod that I've had since I was fourteen,over forty years ago which I will never let go.Just wish I still had my collection of mitchell and Abu reels and handbuilt custom rods from 1980 amongst other stuff.

I chopped in a couple of mitchell match reels to go towards a feeder rod about twenty years ago, I really regret that!

 

[Clive Shipman]

These things are still available some great Facebook pages still holding older gear in high regard. Plus guys out there restoring and maintawthe old stuff.

 

[Mark Mole]

The only item I truly cherish has no monetary value whatsoever. A JW Avon/ feeder my dad won from angling times about 15yrs ago for catching a treble of nice perch. The old man no longer accompanies me on trips anymore due to failing health. I'd give up all the big fish I've ever caught for just one more session with the old codger. He caught quite a few nice fish of all species on it and it's a bit scruffy cosmetically. I use it now as much as I can, it's the next best thing to having him on the bank with me.

 

[Richard Booty]

I had some Avons that I'd saved up a small fortune (or so it seemed) to buy as a kid. Trudging the streets of a (very hilly) village to deliver papers for less than a pound a week to spend 15 pounds on a set of scales showed how much I wanted to be viewed as a 'specimen hunter'. Many years later my parents were having a clear out in the garage without telling me and gifted them to a neighbour... Gutted.

 

[Paul Richardson]

Again not fishing related but mine was 1980s heavy metal tour t-shirts. All given to Oxfam when I moved out. I'm still in denial and when I go to the folks keep hoping i might find my Metallica - ' Ride The Lightning' 1984 tour t-shirt. Hitchhiked from North East to London and back to see that gig
Worth a fortune too.