Six pound sensor and a linguard...

[tigger]

I had an unexpected trotting session for the latter part of the afternoon today :cheesy grin: . I spooled up a Gary Mills FJTaylor pin up with 6lb sensor and left the lineguard attatched. The session turned out to be action packed, ok no big stuff but lots of feisty chub up to about three pounds. They where all well schooled in how to shed a hook in bankside vegatation and in how to make crazy all out dashes to get into any snags to do it...barstewards lol. I was in amongst a shoal of chub and getting a fish or loosing one on virtually every trott. As the action went on the fish seemed to be dropping further downstream and so I was having to trott further before the float was pulled under. Anyhow on one trott the float was about 45 / 50 yds down stream before doing a dissapearing act and I struck into what felt like a new uk record chub lol . Thinking it was a chub for the first few seconds I put on a lot of pressure to try and keep it out of the bankside vegatation but it didn't try to get into it and just kept pulling back so I kenw it wasn't a chub. I had to climb the steep banking asap and manouvre my way through the undergrowth along the bank whilst having to keep the line tight to the fish plus carry the landing net, another pair of hands would have been handy :roll: . Anyhow I got down the bank pretty near to where the fish was hugging bottom which by now I was certain it was a barbel . This was unusual for this time of year and especially for this river (this was only my 4th barbel in here in 8yrs) so I was very pleased. After about 5min's of tug of war the fish slid over the net and what a lovely little barbel it was, it was in tip top fettle, a couple of pic's of it....









Just for reference, the bickerdyke line guard didn't inhibit wallise casting at all.

 

[seth49]

That's a nice fish.there good fun on the float and pin aren't they.
Like the reel too.

 

[tigger]

That's a nice fish.there good fun on the float and pin aren't they.
Like the reel too.

Thank's Seth .
Garry Mills made two versions of the FJT (100 of each)...the trotter and the specialist. They're both 4 1/2 inches but specialist has a wider drum. I'm lucky enough to have them both but the one in the pic's is the narrow drum "the trotter".

 

[Ray Roberts]

I wish you wouldn't show some of those reels Tigger, It's like porn for reels, lol. Nice fish by the way it looks mint.

 

[tigger]

Thank's Ray .
I developed a facination with pins Ray and finnished up with a small collection. They're not really a collection as such, I do use them all at some time or other and get great pleasure from them so the money wasn't waisted .

 

[Keith M]

Great report and pics and well done on the Beard too.

 

[tigger]

Great report and pics and well done on the Beard too.

Thanks Keith .

 

[tincatim]

That's a gorgeous looking barbel and a great report!

Makes me want to get out fishing tomorrow

 

[itsfishingnotcatching]

Well done Tigger and the fish are pristine ;bp;bp;bp

 

[barbelboi]

Nice one Tigger, I put it down to the rod - the old 2000 series make fishing easy.......

 

[Bob Hornegold]

I put it down to the reel and a lot of skill by the anglers, well done Tigger !!

Bob

 

[tigger]

Nice one Tigger, I put it down to the rod - the old 2000 series make fishing easy.......

Thank's BB, but the rods a MKII

 

[greenie62]

.....Just for reference, the bickerdyke line guard didn't inhibit wallise casting at all.

Hi Tigger,
Was there any advantage in having the line guard on - or any you can think there'd be in other circumstances?
Tight Lines!

 

[tigger]

Well done Tigger and the fish are pristine ;bp;bp;bp

Thank's Ian .

 

[barbelboi]

Thank's BB, but the rods a MKII

Oops, is there any visual difference? - never used the MKII

 

[aebitim]

Big fan of Normarks, broken 3, the Norboron ones never seem to crop up on evil bay, shame cos they are my fave, as for pins, truepins every time unless its a trent

 

[tigger]

Only just got to get on page 2 after logging off the forum and then logging back on...

Hi Tigger,
Was there any advantage in having the line guard on - or any you can think there'd be in other circumstances?
Tight Lines!

Sorry Greenie, I hadn't noticed your question bud.
The only real advantage of a line guard (for myself at least) is to help prevent the line from going behind the reel and reel foot in windy conditions. I don't like full cage guards as they do put a stop to wallise casting but the bickerdyke guards are great as you can wally cast with them still attatched no prob's.

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Oops, is there any visual difference? - never used the MKII

The MKII Avenger (not to be confused with the later MII 13 to 14ft rods) as with the MKII microlite and titan has different coloured and slimmer blank than the 2000's. They where only made in 13ft also. To be honest I sold my 2000's and got replaced them with the 2000's. I still really like the 2000's but couldn't afford them all