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My Shimmy 5000RE are still rattling along nearly 30 years on... but then early shimmy's are great reels

At the mo I still have my Black Alloy Interlokk stix and bars... I think I'll keep them for 3 rod sessions and my cane for single or two rod outings... Interlokk gear is superb... I mean really superb, had mine many years now and its still as good as new

A chap I know is in the process of trying to build a pair of cane buzz bars... so I can go full on retro... also got some bamboo bobbins in the offing too... pics when ( if) they arrive..👍🎣

Level rods... ???? Ye Gods man... whatever happened to "Butts Up" lines pointed at yer leads... tis the "Ultra Cult" way...😉 (Adopts voice of the Mandalorian) THIS IS THE WAY...!!! 😛😎👍

Rod is doing a Martinez and Bird Avon as I type... the Sharpe with the Speedia was rebuilt by Walter Sewell, I think he retired a while back he did a few of mine... a couple of named rods plus a few un named repurpose jobs... a fine builder... Rod had rebuilt quite a few projects for me... including several cane Roach poles... I'll be fishing with him in Feb and taking delivery of 3 rods and a pole at the same time. A lovely bloke....👍

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The later Mitchell's had a strip of red chenille around the base of the spool to stop this happening... it wears away with age, you could probably replicate it with some fly tying chenille glued in place

S'cuse the mat shot, 11-12lb ish (no scales with me) caught on a light feeder rod... I s'pose I could call it an early Chrimbo pressy👍😎

All I fish with nowadays... cane, pins old school coffee grinders... Old Skool = Old's Cool...👍😎🎣

Walker's Mitchell was a half bail... quite expensive nowadays in good nick

I'm looking into a pair of cane buzz bars.. a chap I know has said he is going to have a dabble at a pair... now't like going sustainable is there...??? 🤣🤣🤣

Just took delivery of a pair o' new banksticks..😍 the optonics look nifty on em I have a trio of 400 and 300 Mitchells, 2 of em with the Boomerang anti reverse levers, the other a later version

That pool is Southwick pool, In Sept I fished the peg opposite and had this... Stuart (AKA The Sweetcorn Kid, hence SK films) popped over to see how we were getting on that day... I've know him since 2008 when we fished Les Quis... top lad, makes good vids

Welcome to the forum...😎👍

Welcome to the forum...👍😎

Hyper Sensor for me... good gear... no reason to change...🤷‍♂️

Well... last week I had the unenviable task of clearing my late buddy's tackle room for his widow... now my house is full of his gear... the overriding message I took from the experience, was not to spend too much time accumulating material things.... if you go earlier than your wife, lover, partner, whatever... they'll need to deal with it all and they'll never realise the cost of those things... With this in mind, once I have cleared his gear, I shall be having a good clear out of gear... cutting back to bare minimums, I don't want my lass to go through that which my mates widow has endured... Tight lines

Yes tried that... think mines jammed, the reel still works as it should though, so I'm not too fussed

Nope... it has a spring loaded knurled nut which doesn't turn or come free

Just had to clear my late buddy's tackle room and he has all 6 volumes

I've had my Tideflo Strikeright since I bought it with my first weeks wages in 1974... £4 it cost cracking little pin, (never worked out how to remove the damn drum in 50 years😳)

Never grease a pin, use a light oil such as 3 in 1 and only a drop or two... literally a drop or two... any more and it collects crud and acts like a grinding paste, its worse with grease... all my pins are lubed with a very light oil. You can add a blob to the ratchet mechanism, but never the spindle (pin)

For the 6 footer's I'd suggest a pair of 4000 size Shimmy baitrunners, cracking little reels, I used a pair of Aero 4000 x on My 9' Dwarfs great little reels, not cheap but my lass bought me mine for Chrimbo years back, I think a Stock 4000 will be a lot cheaper

You'd be amazed at what can be recovered, I was given a Narrow drum Speedia that was left in a puddle for years, it was badly damaged on the back plate, hugely corroded, I stripped the paint off with a dremel and had it looking reasonable, I took the drum off and cleaned out the mess inside the pin hole lubed it and adjusted the end float screw to stop the wobble and a junior in a club had it, its still going...👍😎🎣

My Moredex Merlins on my Sharpe 9'3" carp rods