Rod Shots

[crusian]

  On 10/04/2025 at 13:20, bluelabel said:

One is an impregnated rod t'other isn't, the darker rod is how a sharpe should look with the screw down reel fitting, I had the pale rods's reel fitting removed as it had seized up.

In not too precious about matching everything, that ship sailed long ago... life's too short to worry about that sort of thing any more...👍😉

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Thanks for the explanation about the rods , Blue .

Actually I was really bad the other day as I had a carbon rod ( Century Armalite mk.3 ) as my right hand rod ,and a fibreglass rod ( Jack Hilton Carp ) as my left hand rod ; I just live life on the edge . 

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[bluelabel]

  On 10/04/2025 at 21:06, crusian said:

Thanks for the explanation about the rods , Blue .

Actually I was really bad the other day as I had a carbon rod ( Century Armalite mk.3 ) as my right hand rod ,and a fibreglass rod ( Jack Hilton Carp ) as my left hand rod ; I just live life on the edge . 

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You little tinker you...🤣🤣🤣

[bluelabel]

  On 10/04/2025 at 11:50, crusian said:

Blue ! , how on earth do you expect to catch when your rods aren't identical ? .

To me it looks like one rod is a darker cane than the other , and the reel fittings are different .

🙄

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The darker cane on the sharpe is achieved by soaking the blank in a phenol based resin and then autoclaved, (heat and vacuum or high pressure) to force the resin into the cane fibres... it makes for a tougher rod... sadly as phenol is now banned you don't see many impregnated rods... A guy called Barry Grantham bought the process and found a way round the ban on phenols but I think the venture was short lived... 

[crusian]

  On 10/04/2025 at 10:54, bluelabel said:

Trad day today... well nearly every days a trad day now... just lost one off a big drop back, probably a Bream... bit of a stuttery movement on the bobbin, but I'm out and freezing in a north easterly..., got the wind off my back so its not too bad, no carp out this morning but plenty of Bream... giving the new banksticks, buzzbars and bobbins a run out... Rods are Sharpes 9'3" and the reels are Leszek Delag fettled Mordex Merlin centerpins...

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Hi Blue .

Can you give us more information on your Bamboo Bobbins please , i.e. the attachments top and bottom ,and do they come in diffeent sizes ? .

😃

[bluelabel]

You have a PM...👍

[kevtaylor]

  On 31/03/2025 at 17:23, B B said:

Well mate it goes like this…. We turn up to our pre booked swim that the bailiff had placed a stake with a laminated note saying the swim had been booked for the 48hrs, this was way in advance I believe 4 days, and theirs two guys fishing in there 🙄 looked for the sign and couldn’t find it. we drove to the office had a word with Chris the fishery manager and he said he made the sign and a bailiff said he seen it there on the Wednesday.

Chris apologised and sorted a swim out on the Tar Farm set of lakes and said we just had to pay for the one ticket….. And we blanked 😏

Haven’t heard anything today from Linnar so il send a email off tomorrow to see if they got to the bottom of it, we were thinking next time we go il phone the head bailiff the day before to make sure there’s a sign up. 

Some might think we got to fish and for half price so it wasn’t to bad …but a 30llb plus fish is on my mates bucket list and oxlease is the best bet to get it. The organising he’s got to do to get away for the 48hrs you wouldn’t believe and I won’t go into his personal problems here. 

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Oh I'd be so angry, I'd have gone home absolutely raging after giving them what for - so bad!!!

So those guys just moved the sign and got away with it. 🤬

[B B]

  On 17/04/2025 at 12:50, kevtaylor said:

Oh I'd be so angry, I'd have gone home absolutely raging after giving them what for - so bad!!!

So those guys just moved the sign and got away with it. 🤬

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The days of me seeing red has happily past but it takes some effort tho. 
The bailiff found the sign in a bush  

[kevtaylor]

  On 17/04/2025 at 15:05, B B said:

The days of me seeing red has happily past but it takes some effort tho. 
The bailiff found the sign in a bush  

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IMO the fishery manager was weak letting them get away with that, vacate the swim or you're banned would be my take on it.  

[B B]

  On 17/04/2025 at 15:30, kevtaylor said:

IMO the fishery manager was weak letting them get away with that, vacate the swim or you're banned would be my take on it.  

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How would the manager know it was them ?

[elmoputney]

  On 17/04/2025 at 16:16, B B said:

How would the manager know it was them ?

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You can always tell when someone is lying, proving it can be tougher, surely they walk each lake once a day? Would be it be too hard to print out all the bookings on the complex and check them daily? 

 

[B B]

Don’t know how long the guys had been fishing in the swim before we got there.They could be innocent or if there not they could just say there was no sign. Maybe some (censored) got peed off not finding a swim and took it out on the sign. 

When we book again il phone up the day before and on the day to make sure all is good. 
 

[B B]

  On 17/04/2025 at 15:30, kevtaylor said:

IMO the fishery manager was weak letting them get away with that

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Iv seen 2 cars with 4 anglers unloading where they shouldn’t have been and got told to leave the fishery….the cars were parked by a no unloading area 

[jules007]

Not the pic i wanted to post went fishing today and managed to snap the tip on one of my Wychwood 9ft rods, it was in the velcro rod retainer on front of shelter and i went to rebait, hook caught my fleece as i turned and snapped tip, clutch on reel was set really light, i am now sort of out of action as i have emailed wychwood to see if they can provide a new tip section

[B B]

That’s a bit of bad luck

Easy fix if they don’t, grip the broken piece with grips heat below the eye then slide the eye away. Try it for size if it fits bit of super glue job done if it don’t a light sanding to it till it fits then glue. 
Iv done the same fix to a quiver tip and a sea rod 👍

[jules007]

  On 18/04/2025 at 17:59, B B said:

That’s a bit of bad luck

Easy fix if they don’t, grip the broken piece with grips heat below the eye then slide the eye away. Try it for size if it fits bit of super glue job done if it don’t a light sanding to it till it fits then glue. 
Iv done the same fix to a quiver tip and a sea rod 👍

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B B many thanks for the great "Tip" i decided to have a go and it worked, if wychwood do send a new top section i will keep the repaired section as spare

[B B]

  On 18/04/2025 at 20:09, jules007 said:

B B many thanks for the great "Tip" i decided to have a go and it worked, if wychwood do send a new top section i will keep the repaired section as spare

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Well done Jules 👍

Forgot to say I put a fine dap of clear nail polish over the repair 👍

[kevtaylor]

  On 17/04/2025 at 16:16, B B said:

How would the manager know it was them ?

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Torture! 🙃

[B B]

Almost a rod shot just had to set them up

Went rag worm drowning this morning glorious weather 😎

 

[salokcinnodrog]

  On 20/04/2025 at 16:32, B B said:

Almost a rod shot just had to set them up

Went rag worm drowning this morning glorious weather 😎

 

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Is that people in the sea? 

Nutters!

Aside from that hope you had fun and caught dinner or summat.

[salokcinnodrog]

Lovely morning after a wet night.

I call the trees opposite Wile E Coyote and Scotty Dog.

I've had a few fish out of this swim in the past, but it is the area where I've seen the big uncaught common.

[B B]

  On 22/04/2025 at 06:34, salokcinnodrog said:

Is that people in the sea? 

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Sort of, their buoys. Had a small conger that went back in I fished with the brother-in-law had a laugh 👍

I can see the coyotes but no dog. 

Best of luck and don’t forget the suntan lotion 

[jules007]

Thought i should post the pic of the rods prior to breaking the tip of one, BTW had a repky from Wychwood asking me to take broken rod to local dealer for them to send it back and let them see if it was poor workmanship that caused it but i have repaired it so not going back, i have instead ordered a pair of Rod Hutchinson 10ft rods and will sell on the 9ft Wychwoods

[B B]

  On 22/04/2025 at 14:11, jules007 said:

sell on the 9ft Wychwoods

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Will you be mentioning that one is 8ft 11 inch ?  😉

[B B]

  On 22/04/2025 at 14:11, jules007 said:

Thought i should post the pic of the rods prior to breaking the tip of one, BTW had a repky from Wychwood asking me to take broken rod to local dealer for them to send it back and let them see if it was poor workmanship that caused it but i have repaired it so not going back, i have instead ordered a pair of Rod Hutchinson 10ft rods and will sell on the 9ft Wychwoods

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I hope you’ll be happy with your choice 👍

I do like 10ft length rods Iv got a set of ESP Quick draw rods in 3.5 lb which in hindsight were to powerful in 10ft as someone on here rightly mentioned could have been Kev ? The 3lb would have been perfect.  😏

Now ESP are bringing out a 4k version all in 10ft so il be selling off the other rods and getting a set in 3lb ….after a good waggle in the shop  

 

 

[B B]

  On 22/04/2025 at 06:38, salokcinnodrog said:

Lovely morning after a wet night.

I call the trees opposite Wile E Coyote and Scotty Dog.

I've had a few fish out of this swim in the past, but it is the area where I've seen the big uncaught common.

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Any luck ?