David Gauntlett
Senior Member
Dave,
My first set up was either slackened off clutch or open bail, with silver foil ring on the line as a bobbin/rattler. The foil ring sometimes got caught and bunched up into the butt ring and caused chaos...and anyway they didn't work on windy days. You then resorted to having the line on the ground with the end of a twig laying on it directly under the reel....or a highly technical refinement of a saucepan lid/metal dinner plate similarly placed on the ground, with a large coin popped onto the line, trapping it in the centre of the lid/plate....alarming
Actually, none of it was that satisfactory in many ways, but then that made it match the rest of what I was doing pretty well
That was before I really got into carp. My first carp reels were Daiwas, which required separately bought converters to turn them into baitrunners...sort of My first Shimano baitrunners were very small, and had their own issues....the good old days ....not Fortunately, the fish seemed a lot less bloody minded and far more cooperative then, so THAT bit was good
Cheers, Dave.
My first set up was either slackened off clutch or open bail, with silver foil ring on the line as a bobbin/rattler. The foil ring sometimes got caught and bunched up into the butt ring and caused chaos...and anyway they didn't work on windy days. You then resorted to having the line on the ground with the end of a twig laying on it directly under the reel....or a highly technical refinement of a saucepan lid/metal dinner plate similarly placed on the ground, with a large coin popped onto the line, trapping it in the centre of the lid/plate....alarming
Actually, none of it was that satisfactory in many ways, but then that made it match the rest of what I was doing pretty well That was before I really got into carp. My first carp reels were Daiwas, which required separately bought converters to turn them into baitrunners...sort of
My first Shimano baitrunners were very small, and had their own issues....the good old days ....not Fortunately, the fish seemed a lot less bloody minded and far more cooperative then, so THAT bit was good Cheers, Dave.
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