Terry,
I always carried two, a pair of Sportex Hornsea Pike rods fitted with Mitchell 306 fixed spool reels and 15lb clear blue Stren, the line has changed but the same rods and reels I still use for piking today.
Naxian62,
A roll-up is/was a thing I designed in 72 to carry all my Pikeing gear with the rods ready assembled, hooks and all.
It consists of a piece of HD PVC around 7ft x 7ft, one side had 1ft folded over and stitched into 1ft wide pockets, into two pockets went both sections of one rod, secured by a tape stitched to the sheet around 4' up.
Into the third pocket went all my rod rests, simple hollow alloy poles scrounged from retired TV aerials with a peg epoxied into the top to hold an Efgeeco rubber rod rest and the other end hammered into a point.
Another pocket held a brolley, originally a cotton design, later replaced by a nylon NuBrolly, later discarded if roaming.
The last pocket held my folded Efgeeco alloy landing net.
The top was then folded over and the whole lot was rolled around the two rods and carried with a stitched on section of 2" Ex MOD web belt.
This roll-up also doubled as an unhooking mat and an instant rain shelter if I had discarded brollies alltogether.
Lots of specialist anglers who saw it thought my idea was brilliant and later some were made commercially.
I was fishing large pits and reserviors at the time and from stopping at a swim to setting the 2nd indicator took around two minutes max.
Many was the time when I had a take before the 2nd rod was even put together, once a take from a big 20 as I cast the first rod in.
I only stopped roving when I sufferred a sports injury and walking long distances became difficult.
It certainly catches the fish, but you gotta be fit,....... and young.
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