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Posts: 57 (08/09/06 21:27) |
hello lads i have just got a mk4 split cane rod cant wait till sunday to give it a work out go great with my allcocks aerial bet the fish dont bite
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Youngs Purist |
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Posts: 109 (09/09/06 10:05) |
I saw you bidding for that
.What was the winning bid mate? Just being nosey  .Shame you did not get the Carter Pin,that was on their.When I last looked at it on Wednesday,it was already over £400.00. |
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Posts: 41 (09/09/06 15:41) |
Carp or Avon? Hope you enjoy it and you get to christen it on Sunday. I'm glad there seems to be a few other cane aficionados around, I was starting to feel I was alone.....
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stargazer11761 |
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Posts: 57 (09/09/06 20:55) |
hello mates the bid was £67 the rods a richard walker special avon/carp mk 4 i am well pleased .
got my dads old pin to put on so i am well set up just cant wait to get a fish on. i started with cane rods as a kid then went into fishing big time as a adult ending up carp mad field testing for a major bait company but got fed up with all the bull s**t and started to loose interest then i picked up the cane rods again and its all fun again its all fun now all the pressure is off back to having fun piscator non solum piscatur
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walliswizard |
walker's rod | ||
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Posts: 142 (09/09/06 21:12) |
Nice going - I went to Redmire last year and one of the guys there had a nicely restored MkIV Carp rod which was just lovely. One day...
And the other week I popped round to a friend who is a *serious* vintage tackle man. He handed me a rod he'd just acquired. I forget what this was exactly but it was hand-signed by Dick Walker (it was signed "Stuart Walker, Hitchin" I think?). This was quite a thing to hold. He told me this particular rod was a pre-built blank (probably by Southwell?) that Walker had finished. Pretty special. And then he handed me a quite manky looking spinning rod. And this, he said, was hand-split by Walker! Won't mean much to some people but I knew I was holding something pretty special... and very pricey too! I put it down carefully!!! |
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stargazer11761 |
walkers rod | ||
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Posts: 57 (09/09/06 23:08) |
thats sort of thing is a one off that one man influenced fishing so much both on rods and fishing it self his 44lb carp was some fish i have read so much about his work and he was a very special angler. one thing i noticed then was the expert angler used what ever did the job best now they use what ever company gives them free tackle its free advertising
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stargazer11761 |
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Posts: 57 (10/09/06 20:36) |
didnt get to go today usual stuff cat got bitten by a bloody dog had to go to the vets and sick kids then i look at the rod all over and find its only 9ft 6" its 6" shorter than it should be still at least its a mk4 just have to look for a new top joint
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Paul Boote |
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Posts: 2474 (10/09/06 21:06) |
Hmm. Definitely more to fishing than just catching fish - like unexpectedly chewed pussies and a rod with six inches missing...
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stargazer11761 |
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Posts: 57 (10/09/06 21:33) |
dont you think some things are not going to happen no matter what you do the cat out runs the dog for years till today must be getting old
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walliswizard |
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Posts: 142 (10/09/06 22:12) |
If it bothers you (it would bother me, but that's me!!) then you could always send the top joint to Gary Marshall - he could probably re-create the top joint and use the existing metalwork (rings, possibly ferrule). No idea of cost but if you intend to keep the rod then it's probably worth considering.
www.finecanerods.com/ I sympathise about the cat - we have two, one "the lady" is unmarked by cat or dog fight. The other... a tomcat... well, don't ask. The vets know him rather too well now! |
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stargazer11761 |
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Posts: 57 (10/09/06 23:37) |
cats got a chunk out of its neck and is putting up with the mrs and daughter tending to its every need i swear that bloody cat looks at me and laughs.
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