Kevin Perkins
Well-known member
Do I still have these items in my tackle box....?
Am I the only one on here who can't bear to throw things away?
The one-eyed plug is a bonus 'found in a tree' which is/was some form of trophy that represents someone else's loss and your gain (admit it, we've all done it..)
The Black and White pike float was retrieved from a bush on Startops Reservoir in the early Eighties. Rumour has it that there were a pair of (famous) anglers trying out 'drifting' methods on a quiet corner of the reservoir and this may or may not be one of their prototypes....
The bait dropper harks back to my days of fishing on the Thames (remember those size limits..?) and hasn't seen action since the early Seventies
The Newark Needle floats need no introduction, and I appear to still have a full set (why...?)
The tin of Mucilin has been rattling around in my tackle boxes for so many years I really have forgotten how old it is
The box of blued Mustard spade end hooks were the sharpest 'Mutts-Nuts' in their day
And as for the packet of hooks to nylon, all I can say is the 5lbs nylon was and still is, stiff enough to be used for basket weaving....
Whilst I did do a lot of rod building back in the day, should I sill have the remnants of a reel of rod whipping cotton of the Jasper variety....?
Whilst it may be a cathartic exercise to just bin the lot, why can't I do it?
Am I the only one on here who can't bear to throw things away?
The one-eyed plug is a bonus 'found in a tree' which is/was some form of trophy that represents someone else's loss and your gain (admit it, we've all done it..)
The Black and White pike float was retrieved from a bush on Startops Reservoir in the early Eighties. Rumour has it that there were a pair of (famous) anglers trying out 'drifting' methods on a quiet corner of the reservoir and this may or may not be one of their prototypes....
The bait dropper harks back to my days of fishing on the Thames (remember those size limits..?) and hasn't seen action since the early Seventies
The Newark Needle floats need no introduction, and I appear to still have a full set (why...?)
The tin of Mucilin has been rattling around in my tackle boxes for so many years I really have forgotten how old it is
The box of blued Mustard spade end hooks were the sharpest 'Mutts-Nuts' in their day
And as for the packet of hooks to nylon, all I can say is the 5lbs nylon was and still is, stiff enough to be used for basket weaving....
Whilst I did do a lot of rod building back in the day, should I sill have the remnants of a reel of rod whipping cotton of the Jasper variety....?
Whilst it may be a cathartic exercise to just bin the lot, why can't I do it?