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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

This is a small carp on a Marco Cortesi pin its actually a Matt Hayes version but they are all built by the same firm under licence

Marco Cortesi reels are not too bad, however, the quality control is patchy, you can get good or bad... Strikeright pins are solid, don't drop the Bakelite one, they shatter... A good pin for carpingwould be a Speedia wide drum or a Mordex Merlin, possibly if you wanted modern materials, an Okuma or a Westlake Severn or Trent, all are good pins for carping This is a 22lb 10oz mirror on a Speedia wide drum and an 8' sharpe cane spinning rod

Not my cuppa tea... too many "what if's" about it for me... but good luck to him

A day on the Chelmer, MkIV Avon and Adcock Stanton pin... only a coupla little 'uns though

Been using these 9' 3" Sharpe's Impregnated cane for years now... to be fair it was Rod Hutchinson who first advocated 12' footers to cast further... the fact remains many manufacturers have jumped on the Nash Dwarf/Scope bandwagon, If you wish to go down the 9' route there are plenty out there, Scopes are hideously expensive, and brittle, I have some Dwarf 9' 2.75lb rods and they are very good. Their main limitation is picking up line at distance... other than that they are brill

I used to keep a small lead pouch in the small one along with my carp care kit, just enough room for both

In the great scheme of things, yer average carp seems to take a bait on the move, and with the fish in Saint Danny's vid, they ghosted in and seemed to sna-tch at a bait rather than the "waddle up, nod down and bingo" that we all pray they'll do... I think that the blatant popup will spook some off, but you can't argue with the sheer numbers caught on them... it may be that the fish in that particular water just don't like a popup. As a matter of course I use snowman rigs on my club waters and they score well, a 16mm bottom bait with an 8 or 10mm popup to sit the lot up nicely, works well for me, sometimes I trim either the popup or the bottom bait to achieve the required neutral bouyancy, but as long as it just sinks I'm happy

Well to be fair... thats not exactly ground breaking is it...?? most of us use short rigs over hard ground as a matter of course, as an ex match angler I've tied hooklinks as short as 2" ( flipping fiddly) but the hooklinks need to be long enough to get in the carp's gob and 4" seems to be an optimum (certainly for method fishing, which isn't too far removed from our style) shot on the hook...? Hmmm.. wonder if its possible to weight the point another way..? Putty... ?

https://www.cavagnac.com/en All I could find... back in the early days it used to be all Nash Gear provided, there were a coupla very old poor reviews back in the day but its changed hands since I heard... I considered it for my French trip and ended up at Les Quis instead

They are a little bit like the Interlok bars... had mine for 15 years now and they are still in as new condition

Went out to a local pool on me club book today... Had 3 of these little scrappers, pulled off early as they were starting to swim about in groups possibly getting ready for a bit o' Jiggy-Jig. I'll give this pool a miss for a coupla weeks now... next trip out'll be on a river I think...👍

I'll be glad when I've had enough of this...😛🤣

Couldn't be bothered to swap the Delkims for my Optonics......🤣🤣🤣

Coupla hard scrapping commons... bloomin arms hanging off now🤣🤣🤣

New lake today...👍