luckystrike
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I'd have thought the very early Wilson programmes predate his own brand rods; certainly I always thought the JW Avon/quiver rod was the first by a few years and it wasn't until later that the float/pike rods followed. It's also possible that as a tackle dealer he had blanks made up to his spec.
I'd have thought the very early Wilson programmes predate his own brand rods; certainly I always thought the JW Avon/quiver rod was the first by a few years and it wasn't until later that the float/pike rods followed. It's also possible that as a tackle dealer he had blanks made up to his spec. On the other hand I've got a 1986 vintage Daiwa Cavalier quivertip rod with the black band about 5" up the handle.
I had the pleasure of dinner with him once when my publisher invited about 8 or 10 of his writers to an event where we sat down to dinner afterwards. It was a lively evening....
I had some really old looking wilson ryobi quiver tops once. The tips were kept/stored in the handle and had a metal thred and cap on the end to keep them in place, similar to the drennan im8 and im6 feeder rods which have a rubber bung.
I've heard a few people say they met him at shows not that long ago really and they thought he was an ignorant fellow! I would imagine he may have been fed up chatting with lots of daft anglers.
In his defence, IIRC it predates the John Wilson reel by quite some time. He was using what looked to be a Purist in the first (Hampshire) part of the episode. It may be a Masterline JW rod in the second (Dorset) part of the episode. It's definitely not the same float rod he was using in the first bit.I naively thought that he would be using Masterline John Wilson rods.I also noticed that he didn't have the JW Young 'John Wilson' reel in his collection. I think I've been had.