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Supporting local tackle shops

Edgeley Sports and Fishing

Cracking little shop, small amount of barbel gear, stocks all your korum, drennan esp, korda bits and pieces etc, if i want something thats not in stock they order it in for me out of there many catalogues, cant say i've ever had a problem getting anything even managed to get me 2 barbel rods a bit back in 2days in time for a wye trip when i managed to break yet another bloody rod, used them for yrs and they bend over backwards for me as i expect they do every other customer.
cheers
jerry
 
Paul Hamer said:
Not really my local, only 20/25 min drive away, but a miles better shop and a better crack with the lads. Miserable swines in my local shop in Bury:eek: Keep the good work up chief and marshalls:D
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i spent a tenner before i get out of wigan going there :eek: pies barm cakes to make a wigan kebab and cakes for afters
we have nowt in wigan so travel over to hq every few weeks 30 plus miles round trip
 
Having read these last post's through again, then taken a second look at the outfit worn in Paul's avatar....AND remembered him saying his knees won't take it any more.....I am starting to feel DEEPLY disturbed about all this :eek:

:p:D

Cheers, Dave.
 
David Gauntlett said:
Having read these last post's through again, then taken a second look at the outfit worn in Paul's avatar....AND remembered him saying his knees won't take it any more.....I am starting to feel DEEPLY disturbed about all this :eek:

:p:D

Cheers, Dave.
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:eek::eek::eek::eek::D:D:D:D lol, too cowd for the shortie now mate:eek:
 
David Gauntlett said:
Having read these last post's through again, then taken a second look at the outfit worn in Paul's avatar....AND remembered him saying his knees won't take it any more.....I am starting to feel DEEPLY disturbed about all this :eek:

:p:D

Cheers, Dave.
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DAVE, i went in there once for a pint of maggots, was told, " You don,t need them, what you need is LOCATION baits" . I kid you not, i almost shat meself. There were gremlins in the corner eating pies on barm cakes, they were sitting on a dead cow that smelt of wellies. There was an advert for " Unblowawayablebrollies", with a strange little creature underneath it wearing an oxygen mask. I managed to escape by throwing a pastie into the far corner, and sneeking out whilst they all chased it. :D

p.s if you get offered anything called "Heavy Brown" run like ****
 
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Derek Funcks said:
DAVE, i went in there once for a pint of maggots, was told, " You don,t need them, what you need is LOCATION baits" . I kid you not, i almost shat meself. There were gremlins in the corner eating pies on barm cakes, they were sitting on a dead cow that smelt of wellies. There was an advert for " Unblowawayablebrollies", with a strange little creature underneath it wearing an oxygen mask. I managed to escape by throwing a pastie into the far corner, and sneeking out whilst they all chased it. :D

p.s if you get offered anything called "Heavy Brown" run like ****
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Noooooooo Derek :(.....I mean, I had always heard whispered rumours about dark goings on once you got past Watford, people in dingy back street dens sitting in corners snorting stuff called 'Archie Braddocks Xotic', while drooling over items I don't even want to think about called 'Shock Stikks' and 'Power Whips' :(........and now this :eek:

Oh dear....I'm to delicate for all this :eek:

Cheers, Dave :p
 
Just to let anyone know that used Steves fishing tackle shop in Great Hollands, Bracknell, Berks ,that it has closed its doors for the last time, Another shop bites the dust,
 
Tackle Shops

In my opinion, the main turn off for not using the small tackle shops is the gaggle of bores hanging around the counter, drinking tea or crud coffee. This group are generally in camo kit and seem to be fairly dim witted. Inevitably, they buy very little and have nothing better to do than exchange boring tales interspersed with jokes that aren't funny in the least bit. To get a word in edgeways and talk to the manager/owner of the shop regarding tackle is virtually impossibe. Even paying for tackle is a challenge as the counter bores are oblivilous to the needs of anyone else. The counter bores don't seem to flourish in the larger stores and I suspect that is one of reasons why they gravitate to the smaller tackle shops with the result that they probably choke off a lot of potential business which the smaller shops can ill afford.
 
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