If you have to ask the price, you can't afford it. Do you realise how many years waiting list there is to get a simple small tackle box for weights and floats etc? It's a shorter time to get a Morgan car.Tickel-Tackle The range is too limited with poor availability and the prices are extortionate.
Tickel-Tackle The range is too limited with poor availability and the prices are extortionate.
It's been my experience that, generally speaking, you get what you pay for. That's not to say you have to spend fortunes to get good tackle or that you can't get really good kit for a relatively modest amount (Drennan Red Range is a good example). Cheaper prices usually gets you inferior stuff. That applies to just about any consumer item you care to mention.
"buy cheap, pay twice" QUOTE]
2 Abu Garcia "Red Wolf" 1lb Q/tip rods at £25 each. Known to the cognescenti as "Jelly Rods".
They look pretty naff, but by god they're the best tip rods for chub and snatching bits I've ever owned. A bargain (as was). They're now re-branded and have leapt up to £35, I think?
Badger? Much maligned, but I had one of their adjustable chairs which lasted 8 years, was damned comfortable and is much missed. Similarly I had a Badger Oval with winter skin, the former has just been replaced with their new Oval (after 8 years use), the skin is still going strong. There's sometimes some good stuff in the "bargain bin" if you keep your eye on Reviews.
Worst tackle? I can think of individual items, but not particular brands.
buy cheap, pay twice"