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23-09-18, 10:40 AM | #1581 |
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Re: The All new Reeder Megathread
Sounds like my view of those who queued for new iPhones this week.
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23-09-18, 10:55 AM | #1582 |
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Re: The All new Reeder Megathread
"Get the gear" ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3SFqV0hMyo
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23-09-18, 06:49 PM | #1584 |
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fly fishing in a way has always been full of snobs but hey each to their own and all that.
i have in the past taught a fair few strangers with all the gear no idea to cast a fly line. i was amazed at how much fly fishing rods have come in the past 10 years.. £60 will buy a rod that would have cost me £300 10 years ago to get the same kind of action. yes the expensive stuff is still very very expensive but i'll leave that for people with deep pockets. FTR my fly rod and real are well over 20 years old... lol the price of a days fishing has bloody shot up. what was one of my fave lochs was £10 all day is now £35, thankfully my local is still a good price but the hours have dropped. |
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I think my Aldi fly rod is better than the fibreglass fly rod I made myself over 40years ago. I've still got my Mitchell fly reel from when I was a teenager. I've got a lovely carbon blank that I must get round to building up, but it'd be cheaper to go buy a new one.
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23-09-18, 08:30 PM | #1586 |
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i used to make my own rods when i was younger as it was cheeper than buying them and the shop was just up the road from me and a great bunch of older gents who were always very helpful, taught me a lot.
my first shop bought fly rod is the one i still use and is a Diawa Whisker WF98. its still sought after as the action is nice. Mitchell auto by chance? i had a look at some new hardware for a spare whisker i have and it aint cheep (£4-6 a ring) if you want the latest. so yes it would be cheeper and probably a better rod buying something. depending on what the blank is and how old you might get a good price for it on ebay. |
24-09-18, 05:43 AM | #1587 |
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Diawa whiskers were always nice, I remember my local shop trying to sell me one of the first coarse rods.
Think you're right, I should just go and buy a new fly rod, although there is a lot of pleasure making your own. Nope, it's just a normal Mitchell, I remember the one you mean. All my fly fishing stuff was bought from from a lovely shop in the centre of Edinburgh, Bet it's long gone
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24-09-18, 10:35 AM | #1588 |
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I, like loads of folk have set ways of doing stuff. Including how I take my heart medication. So yesterdayI opened the box of Beta blockers and there was non in it. No idea where they could be as I keep a little box with that stuff on the kitchen table and put things straight back (we move it up up up when the Grandchildren turn up). Searched all around and found nowt. Today I empty the dishwasher and find them in the cuttlery draw when I put the cuttlery away ???. A complete mystery.
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24-09-18, 10:54 AM | #1589 |
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i'm happy enough to sit and tie flies just now so buying new gear is low on the list. fly fishing all depends on how well i get in the next 6 months.
there is nothing like the feeling you get when you catch that first fish on a rod and flies you have made yourself its all well saying that you want a new rod but are you ever going to use it as i know how busy you are. might have been Simpsons, west preston street. or the posh one just off princes street. |
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