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 |
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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 |
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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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