what fishing gear have you sold and then regretted get shut

Lord Paul of Sheffield · Oct 18, 2011

I sold my old pole - 11m pole that really bent like a boomerang at 11m to a chap and he happed to mention lure fishing

I said I'd 2 lure rod I'd not used for ages
one was a 6ft light ros teamed witha baitcaster real - and the other was a very cheap 8ft lure rod

the bloke said he'd give me £60 for the lot - a quick calculation and that was roughtly what I'd paid for the rods and reel 5 yrs ago -so I sold them - leaving me with a travel spin 9-11ft rod which I thought would be ok for my lure fishing - trouble is it's 6 piece job

Since selling them I'd regretted the move and bought a 8ft lure rod 15-30g casting weight 2 piece cheaply and this casts nicely

what have you sold and widhed you hadn't

sam vimes · Oct 18, 2011

Absolutely nothing. Mainly because I rarely sell anything, if I do it's because it has been replaced by something far better. The snag is that I've got a fair bit of stuff that is sitting around redundant. I really need a clearout.

I don't even recall breaking anything that I particularly regretted either. I have mislaid a couple of Abu 507 GoldMax reels that has got me a little miffed.

chavender · Oct 19, 2011

I sold my origanal jw avon quiver ,which i'd had for 10years or so too replace it with the newer (well new then) jw avon/quiver system (first version with green blank) oh dear it was good but not as comfortable as my origanal twintop version ,so a few years of persevering i gave in and brought a old origanal version .

i had a old 5" centrepin ,that i used for barbel fishing a rolls royce special ,i swapped it for a smaller centrepin ,then this year i traded for it back .

not so much as sold ,more the fact it was stolen ,i'd had a old abu 507 that got stolen in the mid ninties ,and have since brought two too replace it ,one to use and a spare

sam vimes · Oct 19, 2011

chavender said:
I sold my origanal jw avon quiver ,which i'd had for 10years or so too replace it with the newer (well new then) jw avon/quiver system (first version with green blank) oh dear it was good but not as comfortable as my origanal twintop version ,so a few years of persevering i gave in and brought a old origanal version .

I have a JW Avon Quivertip rod which is the only rod I've managed to damage and not care a jot!

However, I'm puzzled by the chronology of the various JW rods. Mine was bought, second hand, around 1988. I was always under the impression that it was the original version but it's a dark green blank with black whipping with purple highlights. It has a horrible short duplon handle with old style reel rings.
The white graphics read Masterline John Wilson Avon Quivertip AV110 Carbon. It has two seperate tips one fixed quivertip and one Avon top. It's certainly matches the rod that featured heavily in the Go Fishing series I watched as a kid in the mid-eighties.

barbelboi · Oct 19, 2011

I haven't sold, it's used or it piles up in the garage. I did however dump a few old fibreglass rods when we moved a couple of years ago - I don't regret it.
Jerry

Peter Jacobs · Oct 19, 2011

I rarely if ever sell anything but rather hoarde it away.

This is probably why I can only get one very small car into my rather large double garage at home.

I even had a large 12' long by 7' high set of cupboards built in there . . . . . . . and I've converted the eaves to take my rod holdalls and brollys, and the walls are hung with chairs, bedchairs and netbags.

Inside the house, in the under stairs cupboard, it is full of bivvies, sleeping bags bedchair covers etc. and one closet in one of the spare bedrooms is full of fishing clothing and waterproofs.

barbelboi · Oct 19, 2011

And when will the PJ Tackle Emporium by opening for mail orders?

Peter Jacobs · Oct 19, 2011

I guess it will be when I can no longer hold a rod or a pole, but hopefully, not yet . . . . . . . . . . not yet.

Fishingdownthewindy · Oct 19, 2011

A couple of custom built kevlar carp rods on North Western blanks,Fuji everything and cork not the trendy duplon at the time.

Not such much sold by me but by my mother after I moved out she had a clearout of my stuff that I left behind as I did not have much storage.

Sold for £5 the pair at a car boot yep £5.......regretted leaving them at my parents, apparently the bloke who bought them was very happy...bet he was.

Bob Hornegold · Oct 19, 2011

Sold a Paul Witcher Aerial some years ago

Bob

Lord Paul of Sheffield · Oct 19, 2011

mine you thte pole I sold him - he was new to pole fishign and only had a 8m margin pole - I got my money back on that

mark brailsford 2 · Oct 19, 2011

A few years ago I had to sell some tackle as my ex left me with a little reminder of her (debt not kids...lol) I sold a technium specialist rod that was a real dream, a few shimano reels that I really loved and a few other rods that really breaks my heart to mention!
I don't think I will ever make that mistake again, well, that is if I don't pack up for good! I now have some really nice tackle including some very expensive preston excel rods and some nice shiny shimano reels (7 at the last count...don't tell the missus!) so I am one happy bunny, I really don't want to try and replace that lot!

mark

stainlesssteelrat · Oct 19, 2011

In the past I've sold the whole lot, twice!

Going back a few years when times were hard, with a young family to support the fishing gear was always the first thing to go. First time I don't really regret, it was mostly gear I'd had for years from when I was a kid. But the second time around almost broke my heart, it was quality tackle and it had taken me a long time to get together. Advert in the paper, fella turns up with his son and couldn't believe his luck. I hope he made good use of it!

chavender · Oct 19, 2011

sam vimes said:
I have a JW Avon Quivertip rod which is the only rod I've managed to damage and not care a jot!
However, I'm puzzled by the chronology of the various JW rods. Mine was bought, second hand, around 1988. I was always under the impression that it was the original version but it's a dark green blank with black whipping with purple highlights. It has a horrible short duplon handle with old style reel rings.
The white graphics read Masterline John Wilson Avon Quivertip AV110 Carbon. It has two seperate tips one fixed quivertip and one Avon top. It's certainly matches the rod that featured heavily in the Go Fishing series I watched as a kid in the mid-eighties.

your's is a later version of the origanal ones ,the first ones come with a full cork handle then later the abrieviated duplon handle was a option both twin tops .

sam vimes · Oct 19, 2011

chavender said:
your's is a later version of the origanal ones ,the first ones come with a full cork handle then later the abrieviated duplon handle was a option both twin tops .

How does that tie in with your first post?

Exactly why I don't follow the chronology of these rods. What people consider to be original versions seems to vary massively. I hear people say that green blanks weren't original and were nineties rods (or later) yet I know mine is green and predates 1988.
I recall the abbreviated duplon and full cork being different versions available at exactly the same time. Naturally, the cork being the more expensive option.

paul80 · Oct 19, 2011

In a past life many moons ago, or about 10 years ago when I became disabled and had to sell up to pay the mortgage because I am the only disabled person in Britain not able to claim disability benefits

I sold my Youngs Purist 2 for £50 at a boot sale

Now I am having to spend £50 to buy a cheap pin because I still cannot afford a youngs again. as I am still on the sick and still no benefits.

10 years of watch all those benefits scroungers they keep talking about on the telly and in the papers and still I get nothing from the Bu@@ers

Paul

agamemnon · Oct 20, 2011

i have lost my house due to the ressesion 5 years back, ive been worried on where the next food has going to come from as well due to illness. my fishing tackle has lived in the cupboard and never once have i thought ill sell my gateway to my first passion in life. dig a few worms up from the garden and go fishing for a few hours just to get away from life and the stress and worries that sometimes go with life is far more important to me than almost anything else in life

flightliner · Oct 20, 2011

A matching pair of North western SS7s at a pound quart test curve.
Lovely rods-- big mistake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

mark brailsford 2 · Oct 20, 2011

funny that folk like those JW AVON rods, It was the only piece of tackle I sold that I will never regret parting with, awfull blank, and the fittings were cheap and nasty!!

mark

terry m · Oct 20, 2011

Back in the late 1970's I made the fateful error of selling a pair of superb carp rods - twice.

First pair were Bruce and Walker Compound tapers and were so sweet. The second pair were Bruce Ashby customs, about 1.5lb tc, never seen another pair anything like them.

Live and learn, but nostalgia aside, the modern kit is for me superior to those old glass rods.

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