What would you save?

[nottskev]

I know some anglers look at their gear dispassionately as “tools”, but some have a lot of affection for their stuff.

I have the impression that people tend to love their rods more than their reels, and, if they have them, their centrepins more than their fixed-spools. Applies to me, even though I have some super hi-tech fixed spools, and my centrepins are just middle of the road.

How do you see it? What would you, after your family and pets, carry out of a burning house?

 

[mikench]

I doubt it would be any item of fishing tackle Kev but as I keep mine in the garage it probably would be more accessible than most! As a good deal of it is also kept in my car, and as the car would be top of the list , I kill two birds with one stone!

My credit cards and passport would be high up! My LP's would similarly together with a smallish piece of glass by Sarpaneva which has sentimental value! In truth if I lived in Paradise( the town) I would be happy with my life! You'd lend me rod I'm sure!!!

 

[wetthrough]

Can't think of anything I couldn't replace easily enough fishing tackle wise. I have an oscilloscope which would be hard to replace but that's in the shed, 10M from the propane bottle...

 

[mikench]

You've still got time Gordon!!!!

 

[stillwater blue]

Can I only take one thing?

I built an Epic 764 fly rod last winter, it's the first rod I've ever built and my first fibreglass fly rod so it special to me for those reasons but more importantly it's just got the perfect action for my casting.

 

[tigger]

This is a round about way of asking what your most treasured fishing tackle is Kev?

Mine would be my Chris Lythe centrepin reels, and a few others like my Richard Carter, FJT's etc.
Of my rods it would be my normark float rods with my avenger being my favourite of them.

 

[xenon]

BJ Centerpin, Acolyte 14 ft Ultra and float box containing whats left of my original set of John Dean stick floats

 

[nottskev]

This is a round about way of asking what your most treasured fishing tackle is Key?

Mine would be my Chris Lythe centrepin reels, and a few others like my Richard Carter, FJT's etc.
Of my rods it would be my normark float rods with my avenger being my favourite of them.

Yes, I suppose I am asking that. And I'm also wondering why, if it's true for other people, we end up treasuring rods more than reels, and pins more than fs's.

 

[chrissh]

The only items of fishing gear I would save are two rod that have sentimental value more than anything one was my dad’s and the other is mine.

And are Ron Chapman Amwell SP 11’ 3 piece rods both the same rods except one had red whipping and the other had green whipping

All the other fishing items I have I can buy again

 

[bracket]

I would take my Speedia centre pin reel. It was the first item of tackle I bought with my own money. I got it in 1957, using most of my first two weeks pay as an apprentice engineer. It cost me 54 shillings (£2.70p in today's money) from Tom Watson's tackle shop on Canal Street Nottingham and it was the only reel I used for the next ten years. It was described as a 4 inch dia, wide drum reel, which it was, but the effective diameter, the winding diameter, was only 2.5 inches. The first thing I did was to increase that diameter by drilling and inserting a second ring of pins around the circumference, to speed up the retrieve and also removed the handles. I don't use it much these days, but only need to look at it to recall magical first trips to, what were in those days, far off venues on the Witham, Welland and Nene. With the customisation I have done, moneywise it is worthless. To me sentimentally it is priceless. Pete.

 

[tigger]

Yes, I suppose I am asking that. And I'm also wondering why, if it's true for other people, we end up treasuring rods more than reels, and pins more than fs's.

Mmm, don't know Kev, in my case I just like my pins more than any other fishing gear I have.
Don't get me wrong I like most of my rods also but as with the pins, some are more liked than others lol.
For some reason fixed spool reels, leger rods, barbel rods just don't hold the same values for me, maybe it's because they're nearly always in rests and arn't quite so personal, if you get me meaning?

 

[nottskev]

Mmm, don't know Kev, in my case I just like my pins more than any other fishing gear I have.
Don't get me wrong I like most of my rods also but as with the pins, some are more liked than others lol.
For some reason fixed spool reels, leger rods, barbel rods just don't hold the same values for me, maybe it's because they're nearly always in rests and arn't quite so personal, if you get me meaning?

Sounds familiar. I get more attached to float rods than, say, feeder rods. I bought a cf reel a while back, took it out the box, had a look, checked it worked ok and put it back in, where it remains. Not long after, I bought a pin - nothing very expensive, a second-hand Truepin Trotter - and when that arrived I admired it, cleaned and oiled it, handled it, span it and stood it on the desk next to me, enjoying it as an object. I've got no sentimental connection to it - unlike Bracket with his personalised pin and it's history - I just immediately liked it. Some items just seem more fascinating than others, and I'm curious why.

 

[108831]

Very difficult,I'd probably choke on the smoke getting my gear out,a made to order pin,made to my preferences and bought by my family for my 60th,my normar k got a 2000 12ft,but very close behind around five other rods,three of which are irreplaceable...

 

[tigger]

Sounds familiar. I get more attached to float rods than, say, feeder rods. I bought a cf reel a while back, took it out the box, had a look, checked it worked ok and put it back in, where it remains. Not long after, I bought a pin - nothing very expensive, a second-hand Truepin Trotter - and when that arrived I admired it, cleaned and oiled it, handled it, span it and stood it on the desk next to me, enjoying it as an object. I've got no sentimental connection to it - unlike Bracket with his personalised pin and it's history - I just immediately liked it. Some items just seem more fascinating than others, and I'm curious why.

Yeaph, your right, to some of us a pin seems to hipnotise us lol.
I'm sure you know that though. I use a pin for trotting because imo it's the superiour device for the job. The fact that I like their appearance and they have that hyptnotic effect is just an added bonus that comes with their superiority for the purpose of trotting .
Like you I have unused fixed spool reels sat in boxes and as far as fixed spool reels go they are nice .

I have a sneaking feeling that you have now been bitten by the pin bug and i'm quite sure it won't be long before you get even more addicted and the number of pins in your home multiplies.....ask Sam Vines, Steve Binka etc, they where bitten by the bug lol.

 

[bullet]

It would have to be my(ridiculous) collection of Bass lures.......probably worth more than most of my gear and harder to replace!

 

[steve2]

Little if any tackle in fact I might be tempted to throw the lot in the fire. Tackle as no sentimental value to me its just tools I use to go fishing.
I could then buy just what I need instead of keeping what a don’t.

 

[Keith M]

I love my rods and reels about the same, because one without the other is unusable.

Although I have some excellent rods like the 15ft Hardy Marksman Specialist Float rod and my two 13ft Greys Carp rods and my 13ft Drennan Acolyte Ultra and my two old Amorphous Whisker Match rods etc. etc. etc. I would be more upset if I lost the rods that I use the most.

So If I saved my Greys 13ft Barbel rod, my Greys 13ft twintip specialist rod and my Drennan 13ft Tench float rod all with reels attached then that would keep me going quite well during the season and keep me happiest. All with reels attatched of course plus my Sheffield centrepin.

Keith

 

[sagalout]

I ain't bothered, I don't have any tackle that I couldn't replace easily and probably with an upgraded item

 

[flightliner]

My Stanton centrepin that I bought in '64 for 54/-0p same as Bracket a few years earlier. Don't use it much but it's the memories it brings back on the fen rivers and Tidal Trent all those years ago.
If I had time my old '74 Mitchell match would come a close second even tho it's my go to reel when out chasing a bag of roach.
Ps-- a Stanton-- the black leaded late fifties early sixties one was advertised on the Thomas turner site last week for £250 !

 

[Philip]

I guess like allot of others its the things with sentimental value that I would miss or value the most. My JRC mat is closing in on 30 years old and does not have tear or stitch out of place dispite the abuse I put it through …I would probably rue losing that the most. I also still have what was basically the first fishing rod I ever used…a basic 6 foot fiber glass job. Obviously I would miss that too.

Centerpins I think its a combination of things…the precision aspect I think plays a part, its almost like an office executive toy like those Kinetic balls that knock against each other..you cant help but spin it.


I also think there is something of a novelty aspect to them. Since they came back into fashion so allot of people brought up on fixed spools and are trying pins for the first time are taken in by them.