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Tackle tarts in Ludlow

Pete Marshall

Pete Marshall

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For a break from fishing the Teme, a trip to Ludlow race course may produce some good stuff in the "vintage" fishing tackle auction.
Actually most of the stuff looks like the gear used by loads of you every day. Find out how much your Ariel would be worth if you hadn't used the box to start a fire and thrown the thing up the bank several hundreds of times after missing yet another obvious barbel bite! (or is that just me):cool:
 
Pete Marshall said:
For a break from fishing the Teme, a trip to Ludlow race course may produce some good stuff in the "vintage" fishing tackle auction.
Actually most of the stuff looks like the gear used by loads of you every day. Find out how much your Ariel would be worth if you hadn't used the box to start a fire and thrown the thing up the bank several hundreds of times after missing yet another obvious barbel bite! (or is that just me):cool:
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Pete,

In my case almost the only thing that the "vintage" tag fits is the angler....but at least I do have the requisite scars, scratches and bumps, and in my youth I was even known to have set my 'tache on fire whilst trying to light a roll-up dog end after 'missing yet another obvious barbel bite'...so even the 'used to start a fire' bit fits :p

However, I do wish I was able to attend this auction, I find such things absolutely fascinating....good luck to all who do go, hope you find your dream at a price you can afford :D:D

Cheers, Dave.
 
Prices realised at the sale - http://www.mullocksauctions.co.uk/wmsmedia/95394PR FT 24 07 10.txt

I see that Lot 55, the heart-stoppingly loveliest of all Aerials, went for the upper-limit estimate of 1500 smackers. I am not surprised - Chris Lythe has only ever seen two, myself also (and didn't know what they were at the time, nearly forty years ago now, except that they were unlike any other Aerial I had previously seen and had to have the one that was offered to me for £25, a lot of money back then). If you know anyone with rather more money, 2010 money, who wants an even better one...
 
I have one of those, but a ex rare 3 and a half inch model with better handles than that one and I also have the original allcocks box (croc pattern and green lettering on description)
But dont worry its not for sale, as it is on occasion used to catch some gudgeon from the local canal:D
 
Nice one, Alan. Mine isn't for sale, either - at least until someone makes me an offer I can't refuse! Till then, it sits in a box somewhere, wishing it was the 4in. 1915-model Aerial that I fish with regularly and get fairly screeching on occasion.
 
Yes Paul, I can see myself with a nice 1915 12 spoker wrestling with a nice chub or barbel, better doing that than shut away in a dark tackle drawer wishing it was on a river bank.
Luckier than some other reels who are sentenced to life in a glass case:(
 
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