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!
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julianm |
POMENTEG |
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Showing my age but who else can remember this `special` groundbait from the 60`s - I think it was sold through Efgeeco & was of course designed by that famous angler & friends but I`ll resist the inevitable name drop ..........
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! |
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lesliefisherman |
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hi,i remember it well,had tench,roach,and carp using it,you could mix anything you liked with that,wish it was still around now,didnt have a clue what was in it though.
as you say i first used it in the sixties,lived in hertfordshire at the time.cheers derek. |
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chrispons |
POMENTEG | ||
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Unfortuanately,So can I ,and the little white packet.
Also the Packa seat,pretty good they were. Pons. |
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bgit |
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Me too - also Sprat's Silver Cloud, Luron, Goldstrike 'ooks, Yellow Platil......when a tanner's worth of maggots were a huge quantity. Tank aerial rods etc etc
Cheers Bob |
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paul4barbus |
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Ah, when maggots were gentles, and you put them in your metal bait-tin.
Intrepids; forked metal rod rests with rubber sleeves, guaranteed to trap your line (still have some of those - I don't throw much away .... and a bite alarm was when you accidentally eat some of your bait paul4 |
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chrispons |
Nostalgia | ||
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And my reel was the Intrepid Elite,and silver foil was the bite alarm,on an open bail arm,Milbro rods,whicker basket,canvas bucket for the bait,an Efgeeko roll all for the rods from memory.
Hi Tech stuff Pons |
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jeeves33 |
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Great days! Intrepid boyos or the Black Prince,PDQ line,Edgar Sealey hooks,and a 8 oz perch was huge.
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Barbel Crook |
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I am obviously not as long in the tooth as many on this post!!!! But my first rod, given to me by my dad was made from the aerial off the Centurian tank he used to drive during his national service.......copper coated steel, weighed a ton and had the action of a broomstick, paired with an intrepid reel, spent many a happy afternoon hauling out huge sticklebacks and bullheads on Bradshaw Brook.........I was only about 6 though!!
Ian. |
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trypewriter |
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Pomenteg - great for making paste - which meant it was difficult to mix for anything else. Anyone remember those terrible Crack 400 closed face reels? You released the bale pin by winding backwards which meant you could only play fish from the woefully inefficient drag. And I'm old enough to have actually caught a carp on a potato!
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Danefisher |
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Goldstrike hooks? If you mean Chapman's Goldstrike, I still have 3 boxes of (nearly) 50, one each of 14s, 16s and 18s my maggot feeder/barbel trotting hook of choice in the 70s !
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thisisjohn |
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omnia reels, intrepid deluxe, and if you were lucky an ambidex r a mitchell, greenheart topped rods, they were cracking lovely top heavy beasts and if you was lucky your reel only dropped off with every other fish What was that aniseed smelling paste in a small cardboard tub called?.................................never ever worked for me but smelt glorious, pomenteg... mixed with a little breadcrumb stuck moulded round your lead for at least one almighty cast, dufflecoats and cycle capes and the magical camou mono perlon or something, tha silver cloud used to come in wonderful cotton bags, great for storing your bread paste when going fishing, a quick dunking of the bag ensured the paste stayed moist all day, Paul lesneys bait presses and if you was the lucky kid in the street a keepnet the ultimate status symbol and those magical moments in the tackleshop dreaming of the day you could afford one of those marvellous spanish reed rods or a popular all round rod(now collectable ) the smells, those bright coloured floats all displayed to make a young schoolboy weep with desire, no wire or shutters on windows in those days, just grubby kids with their noses pressed against the window dreaming of the day they could buy the displayed goods BOB!!! gottit mate! thats why we are suckers for constantly buying new gear! we was brainwashed in our early youth |
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bewdley2 |
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Blooming 'ek Johm mate that takes me back..I was lucky enough to have a fishing family...First reel an Alcocks Stanley (hand-me-down) No automatic bail on that one! Then a Rolls Royce Alcocks Silver Suberb which lasted me 'till the Mitchells.
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, especially the Elfins, used to come in a lovely carboard tube with metal end caps and take a dispenser full of shot to balance 'em! I could go on and on about the tackle that's supported my fishing life. Although I'm now what may be described as modern, with Seer rods, Shimanos, beta lights, etc or wether it's nostalger or not I don't know, or maybe old age, but on reflection I had more pleasure, I think, from those Fred Flinstone days than I do now. Material things are too easey to get nowerdays, so the appreciation lost. None of the excitement you had after your savings were nearing completion for that dreamed of latest aquisition. Guess I'm just a dreamy old git, but at least if it's decreed at some point I can no longer fish, I'll have plenty of memories to dream about....Kindest..Jim.. |
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thisisjohn |
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Jim mate dont forget the times spent idly staring at the ground under yer feet and an hour or two becoming a treasure hunt for spilt splitshot, hooks ect and the the most exciting bit, float hunting in the overhanging bushes and trees
Anglings mystical magic indeed |
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bewdley2 |
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Down at Mapleduram John, we used to keep ourselves quite well supplied with rod rest and small items of tackle by walking the banks after the visiting clubs had gone home!
Kindest..Jim.. |
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the sheize |
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Luxury, try telling that to kids today, they'd never believe ya!
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lesliefisherman |
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hi,when i lived in hitchin,i used to live over a butchers shop called david greig[my dad was the manager]and 5minutes from there was the tacke shop called jacksons tackle,run by a seventy year old woman called mrs keen,and yes she knew all about fishing tackle.
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 after derek,i replied some carp line,she said have you tried platal i said no but i dont want that one as i have heard it breaks to easey,next minute this chap in the shop says,DONT WANT PLATAL,so i said no,he then said i would buy some if i was you,as there wont be a problem with it breaking,then this man walked to the back of the shop. mrs keen then said to me do you know who that is,so i said no and mrs keen replied thats pete thomas,richard walkers mate,blimy i thought so i said OUT LOUD,ILL HAVE 100yds OF 10LB PLATEL PLEASE MRS KEEN. i was well chuffed after that,but i since learned that pete thomas was a fishing tackle rep anyway.derek. |
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chrispons |
Luxury | ||
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Nice story Derek.
Sorry to be pedantic,but it was called Platil. Pons. |
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lesliefisherman |
Re: Luxury | ||
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hi,not the best speller chris,sorry.derek.
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Slip59 |
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Used to dream, no fantasise, about an Edgar Sealey Blue Match. Week after week there would be an advert for this thing of beauty in Angling Times - it used to make my heart ache! Never could afford it and ended up with a Rodrill Wimbrell which had the fastest taper of any rod in history - unsuprising really as the butt was about six inches thick!
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 magazine was the source of my other dreams - not so much the articles on the coarse fishing I did but the pieces on the exotics like Wahoo and Mahseer - magical stuff. I still have my little dream shopping list somewhere. I can still remember some now: Barbour jacket Mitchell 300 Heron bite alarms Sealey Blue Match Olivers Fast Taper Carp rod Simpsons of Turnford Avon rod I suppose I ended up acquiring most of it in the end - no idea where all is now - gone missing along with a load of other childhood dreams I guess (never did score the winning goal in the cup final!). Nostalgia eh - conkers in the oven, knock-a-door-run, dandelion and burdock from the Corona man , the chocolate fishmonger, schoolboys for goalposts................ Right now its the rather more prosaic Shimano 3500B original baitrunner I'm fantasising over - some things never change! Kev |
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Danefisher |
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Nice story, Derek. You'd better watch yourself in Ringwood Tackle or you will be buying all sorts before you know it !
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lesliefisherman |
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hi,robert i dont think it will be to long before richard will be putting the closed sign up,if he sees me coming,i dont think he will though,as ime going to leave my fishing tackle with him for a little while,until i get myself sorted.derek.
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