Spliced tips

[mikench]

Your xxx rod is a beauty Kev; keep it as it is!

 

[barbelboi]

I sold any spliced tip rods and stuck with hollow tipped rods which imo have every bit or even more of a fast action and I don't have any problems bumping fish or hooking fast bites, evwn at long range. Since most of my fishing is trotting a float I only have the best tools for the job, again, imo that's a hollow tipped rod

Couldn't have put it much better myself Ian (apart from the typo that is)

 

[nottskev]

In Gulliver's Travels the big-enders are at war with the little-enders over which end of the boiled egg you should open. It's about what rods you like - in my case, both types - not which rods are "best" as that's a question you can't answer by repeating which you favour.

 

[tigger]

In Gulliver's Travels the big-enders are at war with the little-enders over which end of the boiled egg you should open. It's about what rods you like - in my case, both types - not which rods are "best" as that's a question you can't answer by repeating which you favour.

I know which is best for me, at least out of the rods i've used. Just so happens my preference is for a hollow tipped waggler with a fast action.

A chick comes out the big end .

 

[Bedalerover]

I have always used spliced tip rods
I use 2 30 year old Dave Harrell Harrison rods and they are fantastic I also still have a Shakespeare superteam sliced rod

 

[tigger]

I have always used spliced tip rods
I use 2 30 year old Dave Harrell Harrison rods and they are fantastic I also still have a Shakespeare superteam sliced rod

The superteam sliced rod was ok but I prefer sliced bread myself :wh.

 

[peterjg]

I have an immaculate (virtually unused) Bruce and Walker 12ft XLT match rod. It is carbon and has a spliced tip, there is the original rod bag and the two rubber bungs.
How old is it? Is anyone interested in buying it?

 

[nottskev]

I think it's the model I bought in 1982/3. That one was a 13' and a very good-looking rod - jet black with black whippings and details in gold on the butt. It was a little heavy-actioned for the fishing I did, and I swapped it for a Shakespeare Mach 2 Boron with a bloke who answered the For Sale ad I put in Angling Times. I paid over £100 for it. I wish I'd kept it, but in those days a spare rod was a luxury, and I had to sell one to get another. Bruce and Walker make classy rods, and I'm sure you'll get a decent price for it.

 

[flightliner]

I was offered a Shakespeare President the other day --- £12 !!

 

[sam vimes]

I was offered a Shakespeare President the other day --- £12 !!

It's noted that you said offered rather than bought.

 

[mikench]

Mick is it any good and do I need one?

 

[flightliner]

It's noted that you said offered rather than bought.

It was basically sound and tbh At one time I would have had it for a renovation project, re ringed, a spin on a lathe to "re new" the full cork butt to complete the job but my old eyes and fingers told me to hold back ,but it was still a temptation having seen one done before.
I'm going down to peruse the guys premises in a minute-- anyone looking in want me to keep an eye out for any particular rod while there, now or otherwise??

 

[flightliner]

Mike-- you'll always need another rod, you're hooked !!!

 

[tigger]

Any centrepins let me know what they are......

 

[flightliner]

Any centrepins let me know what they are......

Ian, will do but tbh I don't recollect ever seeing any, I did notice tho that he had a few cheaper end fixed spool reels and an old Abu closed face job but giving it a turn it was pretty well clapped out.
Oh, just a thought-- (wink wink) all this stuff is garnered from elderly ex Fenland/Trent South Yorkshire anglers that never did "slow" :wh lol!