john woody
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what is your best buy from a carboot mine is my skee-tex boots at 3 Quid yes thats all i paid lol i paid the woman then shot off in the car
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terry m
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That is a great bargain !! I just paid almost 20 pounds just for a new set of insert socks for my Skeetek Boots.
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what is your best buy from a carboot mine is my skee-tex boots at 3 Quid yes thats all i paid lol i paid the woman then shot off in the car
I hope you had some tissue handy
barbelboi
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Me too, big price especially as they're made somewhat further afield than Essex these days
Jerry
john woody
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I hope you had some tissue handy
lol like that one tigger
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Me too, big price especially as they're made somewhat further afield than Essex these days
Jerry
Fishing Tackle have them in if you need any
barbelboi
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So have my local tackle shop, I was commenting on the price and where they're made now
.Jerry
john woody
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So have my local tackle shop, I was commenting on the price and where they're made now
Jerry
ESSEX it says on my boots
no-one in particular
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Two rods for a fiver. One was a cheap Shakespeare float rod but, the other was a half decent carp rod.
Lord Paul of Sheffield
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I've never seen anything I'd consdier a bargain and also I'd ask a few questions, if the person can't answer them with any fishing knwoledge I'd walk away - could be stolen
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I once bought a much sought after 1970's Abu Atlantic spinning rod in mint condition for a tenner from a cash converter shop.
I was just glancing through the window at a whole rack of sh ite rods, all for a tenner each, when I noticed the old fibreglass Abu Atlantic in the rack. I then had the agonising time of pretending to go in and casually look at a few of the rubbish rods before picking the Abu and taking it to the attendant to buy. If I had just crashed through the door knocking everything over to get to the rod, it might have gone up in price by the time I got to the till.
This rod caught me my first Highland Ferox trolling on Loch Ness, fullfilling a long held ambition.
I was just glancing through the window at a whole rack of sh ite rods, all for a tenner each, when I noticed the old fibreglass Abu Atlantic in the rack. I then had the agonising time of pretending to go in and casually look at a few of the rubbish rods before picking the Abu and taking it to the attendant to buy. If I had just crashed through the door knocking everything over to get to the rod, it might have gone up in price by the time I got to the till.
This rod caught me my first Highland Ferox trolling on Loch Ness, fullfilling a long held ambition.
Jeff Woodhouse
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We have car boot sales on the common on three of the warmer bank holidays and each time I wander around lookign for any bargains. It usually is cr@ppy old rods and reels not worth a dime and I once saw a guy trying to sell a Daiwa rod bag for £8 - you get the free with a rod FFS! Never seen a thing that I would have wanted, not even pottery or Lalique glass (my fave). It's usually all someone else's cr@p so why pay anythign for it, let them rent a skip to get rid rather than dump it in someone else's homes.
Derek Gibson
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I've picked a few choice items up over the years, but one of the best was a narrow drum Speedia, in the original box in mint condition. I didn't haggle with the stall holder when he asked for a tenner.
flightliner
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A bag of deep and shallow spools for my reels, five if I remember correctly and all for £1-50.
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A couple of years ago at an Oxfordshire car boot fair I bought a large box full of mainly old ABU Tight Lines catalogues - 50 p for the whole box - over £200 worth of catalogues!
Hi
I bought an old black Mitchell match for a quid!! (hardly any paint left on it but it's smooth as silk!)..
I also bought a couple of Grice and Young centre pins, one had a drag system that was linked to a line guide (sold them since as I kept on over batting and ending up with massive tangles )
Another time I bought a load of stuff for £15 of an elderly chap, i'm still using the seat/box it was a coarse tackle setup but with two short fly fishing landing nets!!!
John
I bought an old black Mitchell match for a quid!! (hardly any paint left on it but it's smooth as silk!)..
I also bought a couple of Grice and Young centre pins, one had a drag system that was linked to a line guide (sold them since as I kept on over batting and ending up with massive tangles
)Another time I bought a load of stuff for £15 of an elderly chap, i'm still using the seat/box it was a coarse tackle setup but with two short fly fishing landing nets!!!
John
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I talked about this a few months ago but, spotted some really old rod bags in house clearance shop. 6 rods , greenhart etc. One a 15ft scottish salmon drop ring rod from about 1880.
Paid £7 for the lot. I am hoping to restore them and get a couple of them in a angling auction in Chiswick for April.
Paid £7 for the lot. I am hoping to restore them and get a couple of them in a angling auction in Chiswick for April.
Mark Wintle
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Hi
I bought an old black Mitchell match for a quid!! (hardly any paint left on it but it's smooth as silk!)..
John
Fortunately for you that's a midnight blue Mitchell Match - the early models that were followed by the mid-blue metallic paint versions; the true black ones are the final versions circa 1985/6 and useless as they were not made in France.
I once bought ten books for £30 at a car-boot but what gems!
jimmybobkin
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bargains can still be found at car boot sales, got 3 strikeright centrepins for a tenner recently plus a split cane spinning rod for about the same ammount. people are catching on though so real steals are becoming harder to find
Cheers Mark
I'm sure I put a pic of the reel in my post (getting on a bit and memory's not so good
)Maybe it was removed for being too big!!
I also have a light blue match that I bought years ago (I packed in fishing in 1990 and bought it well before that!), I got it out when I started again a year or two ago and it's still as good as when I bought it new! (apart from a couple of scratches!!)..
Cheers, John