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Tarty Gear!!!

Clive Shipman

Clive Shipman

Senior Member & Supporter
What tickles your fancy from the tarty gear now found online..
How about this one from Okuma...
okuma_cedras_baitfeeder.jpg

;)
 
Looks perfectly functional to me Clive, would look great with bright green line :)
 
looks like a present at a big fat gypsy wedding.
 
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Probably a saltwater - where you need hard-knocks ruggedness and can get away with such looks - jobby. It's all in the eye of the beholder: I still remember the words of a massively dedicated and very fine barbel-angler, Dave Williams of Maidenhead (user at the time of ABU Cardinals 44 and 66), back in 1977, on seeing the new-model ABU reel - the biggest one of the new bunch, a Cardinal 57 - I had just bought for "light mahseer spinning" for a big, long trip I was about to embark on: "My God! Looks like a ruddy spacegun, Paul. Good clutch, though...".

All in the eye and in the mind of an era...
 
Clive Shipman said:
What tickles your fancy from the tarty gear now found online..
How about this one from Okuma...
okuma_cedras_baitfeeder.jpg

;)
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The above is a poor man's version of that below...

ZeeBaas-Silver-350H.jpg


...which is a Zeebaas. And in the imortal words of Dolly Parton: "It takes a lot of money to look this cheap."

But I still like it.
 
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And if that's too tame for you then there's always a Van Staal.


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In gold plate, no less! For all you wanna be Oligarchs, sultans and middle eastern dictators.
 
Mark, prove the courage of your conviction and name names and let this person be known to the world. He's either built like a brick ****-house and has an ironic sense of humour and can therefore pull it off, or else Jordan has sold the horses, retired from dressage and decided to persue a new pastime in carp fishing.

Whoever bought them is a brave person indeed. On most of the waters I fish using such tackle would invite, and justify I might add, a beating of the most savage kind.
 
If they have been sold to your suspected BFWer Mark, I guess they will make an appearance at Hampton Loade in the near future :)

I had heard he was having a pair of Red Torrix's with pink whippings made up by Bob ;)
 
Well with those pink 'uns I doubt you would be mugged for them on the bankside! Could catch on....lol


Brian
 
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