flightliner
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Used to fish the swingtip in matches on the Witham, Welland, Coranation cut in Spaldind, the Middle level. Relief channel and many of the fen drains.
Back then it dominated the Fenland match scene.
My only grouse of it was when the Witham was run off when the lock gates in Boston were open causing the tip to be at full stretch.
We would wrap lead wire around the tips end which helped , but it still worked in the right hands.
Lovely way to see bites develop but it gradually made way to the quivertip that did in the main consign it to angling history.
Back then it dominated the Fenland match scene.
My only grouse of it was when the Witham was run off when the lock gates in Boston were open causing the tip to be at full stretch.
We would wrap lead wire around the tips end which helped , but it still worked in the right hands.
Lovely way to see bites develop but it gradually made way to the quivertip that did in the main consign it to angling history.