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Posts: 60 (08/09/06 20:27) |
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 09:05) |
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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Nigel Evans |
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Posts: 42 (09/09/06 14:41) |
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: 60 (09/09/06 19:55) |
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 |
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Posts: 142 (09/09/06 20:12) |
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: 60 (09/09/06 22:08) |
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: 60 (10/09/06 19:36) |
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: 4341 (10/09/06 20:06) |
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: 60 (10/09/06 20:33) |
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 21:12) |
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: 60 (10/09/06 22:37) |
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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4spoke |
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Posts: 196 (11/09/06 13:14) |
Brought a mk 4 this year and have had several barbel on it including a 10.04 at the start of the season. Have also used it in conjunction with a 4 spoke coxon aerial (my user name) and had a barbel on that combo - very special
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Paul Boote |
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Posts: 4341 (11/09/06 13:43) |
to be taken into consideration.
All right, I have a Mk IV Avon, but I can handle it. Bought by my folks, for £10 12s 6d, as a combined Christmas and birthday present ("And nothing else this year, you understand, Paul..." when I was aged 11. HOW I loved and valued that rod. It's taken carp, tench, barbel, perch, roach, dace, chub, bleak, gudgeon, ruffe, "minnahs" and bullheads, salmon, sea-trout, bass, mackerel, black bream, the whole British fishing nine yards, on float, leger, spinning... AND it's got a broken top. I smashed about 9 inches off the top of it back in the early 1970s and repaired it by lashing the detached piece back onto the rest of the top section with Alasticum single-strand trace wire and whipping nylon all soaked and finished in heated (thinned) original Araldite. The repair is still going strong - fairly belted into a 5-pound barb several weeks ago on the rod's annual day-out. Okay. So I have owned up. Still infinitely prefer top-quality graphite for my fishing NOW, though. PS - Saw in the Independent yesterday that Neil Freeman, the London-based vintage-tackle auctioneer, has just bought himself a big-bucks-a-week, salmon-fishing lodge on the Miramichi (superb Atlantic salmon-river) in eastern Canada. Manky old tackle, eh...? |
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stargazer11761 |
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Posts: 60 (11/09/06 21:04) |
if i get a 10lb 4oz barbel on this rod out of the suffolk stour i shall be a happy man
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Posts: 579 (12/09/06 20:16) |
Hi all,
Had dinner round a collector of vintage tackles house last Friday night. His collection of Hardy reels and tackle was absolutely fantastic as was the glass case fish which included the Avon Barbel record at 15lb 12oz. After we had finished dinner he handed me a rod bag and said what do you think of this. When I got it out it was a brand spanking new RW mk4 not a mark on it, in its original bag and never had a reel on. It brought back some great memories what a superb bit of kit. Keith |
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stargazer11761 |
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Posts: 60 (12/09/06 21:57) |
hello he sounds like a lucky man thats a fair thing to have to look at will he ever use it do you think
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Paul Boote |
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Posts: 4341 (13/09/06 08:36) |
Never. In my experience, vintage-tackle collectors are horders who derive enormous pleasure from their ever-growing treasure trove, and even more pleasure showing it off to a "select" few - almost taunting them with it ("Look what I've got ... mine's better / bigger / rarer you than yours ... na-na-nana-na") - and, of course, making their fellow collectors feel the gnawing pain of desperate envy. Some weird sort of psychology going down, I reckon, plus some pretty nasty power trips. Almost a man, they are not much as anglers. I have never collected tackle (I merely bought a little, a long long time ago, to fish with), but encountered a number of the breed once they had heard rumours (they are terrible speculators and gossips) of what I might have. I was only telling "Stroller", encountered on a very unpromising Southern riverbank the other month, of the stitch-up that I had done on me a few years ago by an apparent friend, how I somehow just found myself drinking in a Colne Valley pub one evening with him and a couple of anglers whom I had agreed to meet, all overheard by a well-known collector standing at the bar just feet away for the better part of two hours, who introduced himself to me as I walked out...
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tony2canes |
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Posts: 2445 (13/09/06 10:02) |
Keith,
I too have a brand new Mkiv, and whilst Paul is right and I have not used it, I will one day, just the once you understand. On the other hand I may sell it, any bids? |
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trentbarbeler |
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Posts: 2143 (13/09/06 18:48) |
Dear Tony,
I bid seven and sixpence half-penny-farthing. And if my bid is successful, I'll swap the rod back to you for the farthing piece as I do so love the robin red breast on the coin. Ah them were the days. When a tanner would feed a family of six for a whole week and coal were cheap as chips. Regards, Lee. |
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tony2canes |
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Posts: 2445 (13/09/06 19:03) |
How can I resist a deal like that Lee, done.
Meet you at peg 1a on Collingham this Sat at 3am, will have the rod with me.
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bb king |
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Posts: 2210 (13/09/06 19:03) |
Tony, I bid.... £10 12s 6d SKYPE me - bb king or bfw_bbking
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