Never mind your Acolytes and Normarks - I just bought a good as new Dam Quickstick 12' off ebay for £21, and I'm well pleased. I first had one of these in 1982. I called into a tackle shop in Wilmslow (hello. Mike) for maggots, and bumped into Ian Heaps who was a DAM rep then. He could evidently sell tackle as well as he could fish, and I walked out a bit later with maggots and this rod. I think it cost £60+. I used it for years, and I'm glad to have one again.