sam vimes
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Use would be too strong a word. I do have the remains of a packet of them kicking around a tacklebox somewhere.
Discontinued products......what would you want?
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Use would be too strong a word. I do have the remains of a packet of them kicking around a tacklebox somewhere.
chav professor
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Not a classic then??
sam vimes
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Hard to say, I don't recall them being deficient in any way. I suspect it was more a matter of never having any significant catch on them and then never seeing them for sale anywhere. Wouldn't be the first product that's been ignored for no good reason and then disappeared without trace.
I don't know exactly why, I suspected their lack of catalogue or online presence for many years, but many good Drennan products seem to pass me by without me ever becoming aware of them. Either that or I become aware of them just as they disappear without trace from the shops!
chav professor
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I bought about 6 boxes in a discontinued box in size 4 and size 6.... as yet I have not felt inclined to use them... but the idea is sound.
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Berty
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Cut through the cork handle, strip off the required cork and fit a modern reel fitting, spigot all back together with an offcut of carbon.....job done!
A few have had this done.
chav professor
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Cheers Berty!
As regards the star point hook, went this morning with a few lobs...... the hook-point is very susceptible to 'folding' over......... 30 star points going free to a good home lol!
As regards the star point hook, went this morning with a few lobs...... the hook-point is very susceptible to 'folding' over......... 30 star points going free to a good home lol!
no-one in particular
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certainly does.... floating, slow sinking or sinking. Big bait.... bigger fish.
the 12lb line is really visible, often strike before any registration on the tip. cast out, allow some slack to form a bow (12lb line has memory coils from the spool), strike as the line straightens and cuts across the water.
this Chub fell to 12lb line and a whole slice of brown thick sliced Hovis on the surface....
the thread is interesting though.. stuff gets discontinued as it falls from popularity. Often, an essential pice of terminal tackle, once discontinued gets replaced with something far superior and you get on with it and wonder why you felt that way about the original article!!
Thanks Chav Prof -will give it a go some time.
chav professor
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Do it Mark! It takes a bit of getting used to, using large baits, but they are far more selective. Most of the rivers I fish have large numbers of chub in the 2 - 3lb bracket........ It certainly improves your chances of being more selective!
Ray Roberts
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I was fond of these hooks and would continue to use them if they were still available. I would be more than willing to pay your asking price!
Jeff Woodhouse
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Having one hell of a problem finding Drennan Polemaster nose cones and Preston ones too. I managed it by buying two Preston ones from what must be old stock, but seems like both companies have stopped making them. Absolutely indespensible I would have thought, stop you from cracking your pole sections together! Only thing worse than the sound of crack carbon is bending metal on cars...
laguna
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Here mate
Caught my eye that one as beetroot and beet greens especially are very effective (high in antioxidants) mixed with other groundbaits or use fresh as a base mix additive or liquidised sugar beet.
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I own and still use my original Diawa Harrier 120M for trotting and silvers which as I remember, superseded the Abu 506 closed face (the main difference having anti back wind as I remember?)
Years before that I bought for the princely sum of £7 a close faced reel called the "One Touch" - maker unknown!
If anyone knows who made the One Touch I would be very grateful or if anyone has one and would like to sell please get in touch!
It was a great reel with a simple lever mechanism which once depressed using a forefinger released line for casting and was as smooth as..
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action base mix and flavours
chub_on_the_block
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Sensas 2000 groundbait - maybe not discontinued but I cant find anywhere that stocks it these days.
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if im fishing for bream/tench or down a local carp puddle stocked with mid doubles, people walk up and ask if ive robbed a museum. i have the original 1980's optonics and i use a pair of 1.75 bruce and walker rods with full cork handles.
if i had a chance to buy a rod then it would be a dennis white avon rod. not sure if this rod came before the john wilson avon but its far superior than the wilson rod.
i still use drennon continental hooks as well. i love them and its so rare to get a hook pull that i have never felt the need to swap to another brand
if i had a chance to buy a rod then it would be a dennis white avon rod. not sure if this rod came before the john wilson avon but its far superior than the wilson rod.
i still use drennon continental hooks as well. i love them and its so rare to get a hook pull that i have never felt the need to swap to another brand
flightliner
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Another two brand spanking new Michell match reels - right hand wind-, I,m ok for the moment, the two I have still work fine after decades of use but two more to lay away "just in case"
robthomo
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Tricast Legend carp rods, Nash canvas overwrap (for purely nostalgic reasons there's better modern alternativies), original yellow transparent Gardner barbed baiting needle.
Ones I've not owned but would like include many of the North Western rods, a crying shame that they ceased production.
Ones I've not owned but would like include many of the North Western rods, a crying shame that they ceased production.
red creel
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Browning Revolver Centrepin, best trotting pin i have ever owned by a country mile i could kick myself now for selling it many moon's ago.They do come up on "the bay" from time to time but the last one i saw was way beyond my means.