Adrian.


The next meeting of the Shropshire region of the Barbel Society will be on the http://barbelfishingworld.yuku.com/sreply/150226 Fri, 12 Jan 2007 01:03:06 GMT http://barbelfishingworld.yuku.com/reply/150225/t/POMENTEG.html#reply-150225 Dozing beside the Bruce & Walker Mk IV/Mitchell 300s praying it would not rain as the buzzers would pack in, or go on permanently.
Under the 36 inch wooden poled brolly.
Pushing away the wet thing around your head while camped out on sponge mattress, and then realising it was a huge rat chewing away at the loaf of bread I was using for a pillow!
feeds@yuku.com (dr barbus) http://barbelfishingworld.yuku.com/sreply/150225 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 23:46:08 GMT http://barbelfishingworld.yuku.com/reply/150224/t/POMENTEG.html#reply-150224 feeds@yuku.com (bewdley2) http://barbelfishingworld.yuku.com/sreply/150224 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 21:39:16 GMT http://barbelfishingworld.yuku.com/reply/150223/t/POMENTEG.html#reply-150223 Jim, that Appollo was the "Taperflash" was'nt it? Another much coveted rod at the time.
Look at what we are sold these days guys, will we still have the same recollections and memories of it all in another 40 years? Let's hope so...and let's hope that we are still able to indulge... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Devon Traveller) http://barbelfishingworld.yuku.com/sreply/150223 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 20:40:11 GMT http://barbelfishingworld.yuku.com/reply/150222/t/POMENTEG.html#reply-150222
You said,

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Material things are too easey to get nowerdays, so the appreciation lost.

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This is true of most of the youngsters these days but for myself I like to make things difficult, I have been putting a few pounds a week into a jar for some time now to buy myself a frivolous gift of a pair of hand made rods.
I won’t go into details because... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (adrian) http://barbelfishingworld.yuku.com/sreply/150222 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 20:02:01 GMT http://barbelfishingworld.yuku.com/reply/150221/t/POMENTEG.html#reply-150221 feeds@yuku.com (lesliefisherman) http://barbelfishingworld.yuku.com/sreply/150221 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 19:56:38 GMT http://barbelfishingworld.yuku.com/reply/150220/t/POMENTEG.html#reply-150220
]]> feeds@yuku.com (Danefisher) http://barbelfishingworld.yuku.com/sreply/150220 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 18:46:48 GMT http://barbelfishingworld.yuku.com/reply/150219/t/POMENTEG.html#reply-150219 Ordering my first Mitchell 300 from Billy Knotts mail order down in the South west. It had been Intrepids for me too until then. Angling... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Slip59) http://barbelfishingworld.yuku.com/sreply/150219 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:43:53 GMT http://barbelfishingworld.yuku.com/reply/150218/t/POMENTEG.html#reply-150218 feeds@yuku.com (lesliefisherman) http://barbelfishingworld.yuku.com/sreply/150218 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:04:49 GMT http://barbelfishingworld.yuku.com/reply/150217/t/POMENTEG.html#reply-150217 Sorry to be pedantic,but it was called Platil.
Pons. ]]> feeds@yuku.com (chrispons) http://barbelfishingworld.yuku.com/sreply/150217 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:51:56 GMT http://barbelfishingworld.yuku.com/reply/150216/t/POMENTEG.html#reply-150216
anyway i went in there one day to buy some line for carp fishing at henlow pits,i was about 15/16 at the time,there was only one customer in there at the time an elderly man in his thirties,so mrs keen said to me what are you... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (lesliefisherman) http://barbelfishingworld.yuku.com/sreply/150216 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:26:37 GMT http://barbelfishingworld.yuku.com/reply/150215/t/POMENTEG.html#reply-150215 feeds@yuku.com (the sheize) http://barbelfishingworld.yuku.com/sreply/150215 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:49:18 GMT http://barbelfishingworld.yuku.com/reply/150214/t/POMENTEG.html#reply-150214 Kindest..Jim.. ........ ]]> feeds@yuku.com (bewdley2) http://barbelfishingworld.yuku.com/sreply/150214 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 14:22:21 GMT http://barbelfishingworld.yuku.com/reply/150213/t/POMENTEG.html#reply-150213 Anglings mystical magic indeed ....j.w ]]> feeds@yuku.com (thisisjohn) http://barbelfishingworld.yuku.com/sreply/150213 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:56:11 GMT http://barbelfishingworld.yuku.com/reply/150212/t/POMENTEG.html#reply-150212 Dad had a steel keep net with a sprung trap door..Also used a centre pin (can't remember the make) with an adaptor cast. Most of the rods I had Dad built (split cane), but he did buy me an Apollo steel match rod. It's the floats I used to love,... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (bewdley2) http://barbelfishingworld.yuku.com/sreply/150212 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:22:51 GMT http://barbelfishingworld.yuku.com/reply/150211/t/POMENTEG.html#reply-150211 feeds@yuku.com (thisisjohn) http://barbelfishingworld.yuku.com/sreply/150211 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:17:22 GMT http://barbelfishingworld.yuku.com/reply/150210/t/POMENTEG.html#reply-150210 feeds@yuku.com (Danefisher) http://barbelfishingworld.yuku.com/sreply/150210 Wed, 10 Jan 2007 18:36:31 GMT http://barbelfishingworld.yuku.com/reply/150209/t/POMENTEG.html#reply-150209 feeds@yuku.com (trypewriter) http://barbelfishingworld.yuku.com/sreply/150209 Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:22:36 GMT http://barbelfishingworld.yuku.com/reply/150208/t/POMENTEG.html#reply-150208 feeds@yuku.com (Barbel Crook) http://barbelfishingworld.yuku.com/sreply/150208 Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:09:20 GMT http://barbelfishingworld.yuku.com/reply/150207/t/POMENTEG.html#reply-150207 feeds@yuku.com (jeeves33) http://barbelfishingworld.yuku.com/sreply/150207 Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:50:25 GMT http://barbelfishingworld.yuku.com/topic/10416/t/POMENTEG.html So - anyone ever use it? Was it any good? What was in it? Surely the name is some sort of play on words but what was it?
Love to hear your experiences!
]]> feeds@yuku.com (julianm) http://barbelfishingworld.yuku.com/topic/10416 Tue, 09 Jan 2007 20:49:12 GMT