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cal_sutt · Jul 27, 2014

Just taking a minute to thank the glorious car boot sales! Just returned from selling some tat on a car boot at Harby in Lincolnshire and I decided to leave the missus with the stall for a bit while I went for a hunt around to see if I could find some cheap tackle. There wasnt much there, one guy selling a vintage Hardy rod for £110 which was somewhat out of budget and there was a man selling a split-cane rod and Mitchell Match reel. I thought I was going to leave empty handed until I stumbled across a man selling a couple of nets and a rod - there was a couple of match nets (bit too small for my liking) but it was the rod and net handle that caught my eye the most. The handle was a telescopic 3m Dinsmores handle which I figured would be spot on when roving on the river, then there was a Daiwa Ivan Marks Lightning Carbon 13ft Match rod. I didn't really want the rod as the net handle was £8 and I only had a tenner on me, I then ended up having a chat with the bloke and he offered to sell the rod and the net handle for a tenner! A steal to say the least! Has anyone got one of these rods or used them in the past? Really want to have a go with it this week just freelining maggots on the river, there's some big chub in the swim up to about 4lb but I've had 5lbers on a float rod in the past. Any advice on the rod?

Titus · Jul 27, 2014

Yep I also love a car boot and have had some great bargains, never from the bloke who seems to specialise in tackle though, always off the middle aged guy who is flogging the stuff which has been cluttering up his loft and garage for a couple of years or the bloke flogging off the contents of his father in laws house after the old boy has snuffed it.

My latest bargain was a couple of weeks ago when I found a Korum rucksack and a JRC continental 2 man bivvy under a pile of clothes and got the two for £25. I sold the rucksack for £30 and the bivvy is going to replace a pram hood job which I just couldn't get on with and sold in the spring. Happy days.

I have also had bucket fulls of end tackle including a carrier bag full of used feeders for a couple of quid which I bought off a metal detectorist who works the river Severn in Bridgnorth.

Some of them are rubbish but most of them are just fine and if I only used the strap leads on my homemade feeders they were a gift, I regularly spend more on coffee.

Ray Daywalker Clarke · Jul 27, 2014

Well, Knock my socks off.

I have the very same rod, and have caught some good fish on it over the years, but it hasn't been used since i took the 4lb 3oz roach on it, that was in 1990.

Did you get the rod bag with it ?? Good rod handles fish just fine.

cal_sutt · Jul 28, 2014

Ray Daywalker Clarke said:
Well, Knock my socks off.

I have the very same rod, and have caught some good fish on it over the years, but it hasn't been used since i took the 4lb 3oz roach on it, that was in 1990.

Did you get the rod bag with it ?? Good rod handles fish just fine.

4lb 3oz??? That's a roach on steroids! And I did ask for the rod bag but he chucked it when he bought the rod!

I'm going to do some light ledgering (I mean super light - two SSG shots) in a spot I've tried recently, a great swim packed full of small fish but there's at least 5 chub of 3lb+ but they sit right under a low-hanging branch and I can't quite get a bait to them with my 12ft, the extra foot should allow me to just drop my bait in front of them! Anyway that should be on Thursday and I shall definitely report back.

PS. Did you get barbel and carp on it? If so what size? I'd like to know it's limits!

barbelboi · Jul 28, 2014

cal_sutt said:
4lb 3oz??? That's a roach on steroids!

Ray's fish was the record at the time, caught from the Dorset Stour I believe. A proper English river roach, unlike the Ulster still water fish that beat it by around an ounce in 2006......................

Ray Daywalker Clarke · Jul 28, 2014

No Carp but had a few Barbel just below double figures. I wasn't fishing for the barbel at the time, but as river pigs they eat just about anything and I had two on trotted bread flake, just over 8lb .

Not the rod i would use for Large carp or Barbel, but it's how you play the fish.

robbush · Jul 28, 2014

barbelboi said:
Ray's fish was the record at the time, caught from the Dorset Stour I believe. A proper English river roach, unlike the Ulster still water fish that beat it by around an ounce in 2006......................

Funnily enough I was saying to a friend the other day that records should be split , a river record and a Stillwater record.at some point the chub and barbel records will go to Stillwater fish,unfairly in my opinion

flightliner · Jul 28, 2014

barbelboi said:
Ray's fish was the record at the time, caught from the Dorset Stour I believe. A proper English river roach, unlike the Ulster still water fish that beat it by around an ounce in 2006......................

I always recognise Rays roach as the record. Lots of seawater between the two you mention Bbb.
just my take on things.

Ray Daywalker Clarke · Jul 28, 2014

flightliner said:
I always recognise Rays roach as the record. Lots of seawater between the two you mention Bbb.
just my take on things.

Thanks for that.

Many anglers I know and those that know of the record say the same thing.

For many anglers a river Roach beats a still water Roach, and a 2lb river Roach is getting as rare as rocking horse *h*t

flightliner · Jul 28, 2014

Ray, cant ever see your fish being bettered from a river in the foreseeable future. Even a stillwater seems unlikely.
Out of interest did your fish supercede the one from nottinghamshire/ colick area that was taken by ????day ?
All a bit hazy now but I remember the headlines when you took your record.
my best is a "Three" and I know just how fortunate I am to have held one-- I, ve had a few good fish in my time but that roach was simply amazing, cant even get my head round what a true four plus must feel like.
I also once had a roach/bream hybrid that weighed six two, just for a split second as it surfaced I thought the impossible but just as fast realised the truth.
I, ll just have to live with the dream.

barbelboi · Jul 28, 2014

flightliner said:
Ray, cant ever see your fish being bettered from a river in the foreseeable future. Even a stillwater seems unlikely.
Out of interest did your fish supercede the one from nottinghamshire/ colick area that was taken by ????day ?
All a bit hazy now but I remember the headlines when you took your record.
my best is a "Three" and I know just how fortunate I am to have held one-- I, ve had a few good fish in my time but that roach was simply amazing, cant even get my head round what a true four plus must feel like.
I also once had a roach/bream hybrid that weighed six two, just for a split second as it surfaced I thought the impossible but just as fast realised the truth.
I, ll just have to live with the dream.

The smell must have given it away Mick.....................

flightliner · Jul 28, 2014

barbelboi said:
The smell must have given it away Mick.....................

Ha ha ha, I knew it, I just knew it. If I had to re-cast a new series of startrek I, d make you the ships engineer so we could all make the request to "Beam me up snotty"

barbelboi · Jul 28, 2014

flightliner said:
Ha ha ha, I knew it, I just knew it. If I had to re-cast a new series of startrek I, d make you the ships engineer so we could all make the request to "Beam me up snotty"

Bream me up snottie, surely...................

dorsetandchub · Jul 28, 2014

I still think it possible the River Frome around Wareham in Dorset might throw up a new roach recors. There are some real munters in there....here's hoping, anyway

Ray Daywalker Clarke · Jul 28, 2014

flightliner said:
Ray, cant ever see your fish being bettered from a river in the foreseeable future. Even a stillwater seems unlikely.
Out of interest did your fish supercede the one from nottinghamshire/ colick area that was taken by ????day ?
All a bit hazy now but I remember the headlines when you took your record.
my best is a "Three" and I know just how fortunate I am to have held one-- I, ve had a few good fish in my time but that roach was simply amazing, cant even get my head round what a true four plus must feel like.
I also once had a roach/bream hybrid that weighed six two, just for a split second as it surfaced I thought the impossible but just as fast realised the truth.
I, ll just have to live with the dream.

The big Roach are out there somewhere, whats left of them, but i think a stillwater Roach will turn up, can't see a river Roach doing it myself.

Yes it was the Notts fish of 4lb 1oz. Few strange facts about the captor of that fish, and me. We were both 32 years old at the time we caught the records, both decorators, and i am sure he was a Ginger

mg:, or Strawberry Blonde also.

So if your not any of them, you have no chance

A three is a fantastic fish mate, many will never catch one of them either.

I can still remember my mates face when he asked what i had just landed, a Roach i said, F**k O**, he replied, then he looked in the net, his eyes looked like they were about to pop out.

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flightliner said:
Ha ha ha, I knew it, I just knew it. If I had to re-cast a new series of startrek I, d make you the ships engineer so we could all make the request to "Beam me up snotty"

Blimey, I'm glad you said SHIPS engineer, i can smell it now,

Captains LOG

mg:

cal_sutt · Jul 28, 2014

Ray Daywalker Clarke said:
No Carp but had a few Barbel just below double figures. I wasn't fishing for the barbel at the time, but as river pigs they eat just about anything and I had two on trotted bread flake, just over 8lb .

Not the rod i would use for Large carp or Barbel, but it's how you play the fish.

Yes I won't be deliberately targetting them but in a few of the swims I fish there are usually a few about, none really bigger than 6lb apart from the odd near-double. I will use the rod more for what it says on the tin; more of a match style fishing catching finger sized fish up to chub of about 3lb, going to be using 6lb mainline straight through and I've had all sorts from gudgeon and chublets right up to double figure carp and barbel to 8lb ish on a combination very similar - the same fixed spool reel, 6lb line and a cheap 12ft float rod. Should be okay I think, non-river use will include float fishing commercials for small carp, tench, etc and canal float fishing for perch, bream etc. Looking forward to putting the rod to some use at each situation, got it all planned out.

flightliner · Jul 29, 2014

barbelboi said:
Bream me up snottie, surely...................

mg:

mg:-- I, ll just have to give up trying with you Jerry, those old time river Lea roach fishers must have had to big an influence on your fishing.

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