What were the classic landmark developements ?

Bob Hornegold · Jan 2, 2017

I'll start with :-

Sowerbutts Roach Pole

MkV1 Carp Rod

Mitchell 300 Fixed Spool

Bruce and Walker 13ft Flyer ( Glassfibre)

J. Wilson Avon (Carbon)

Shimano Seaspin baitrunner

Your thoughts ?

Bob

barbelboi · Jan 2, 2017

DW & Hardy developing carbon fiber rods in the late 70's...............

peterjg · Jan 2, 2017

Not in chronological order:

Nylon line
Hair rig
Bite alarms
Cage feeders
Chemically sharpened hooks
Digital cameras
Primus stove
Quiver tip
Marker float technique
Bait droppers
Jaffa cakes

Derek Gibson · Jan 2, 2017

Bail arm rollers seemed significant, to my mind.

sam vimes · Jan 2, 2017

I struggle with individual makes and model of tackle being considered revolutionary unless they were the first of their kind. Most developments are evolutionary rather than revolutionary. Anything that's just a refinement (even if it's the pinnacle) I can't consider as a landmark. The first commercially available carbon and fibreglass rods would count, the very best, even if it's just the best of their time, probably wouldn't. The ultimate fixed spool reel wouldn't qualify, the first, even if it was barely useable, would. The original Shimano Baitrunner system I'd definitely count. It could be considered an evolution of the fixed spool reel, but it was a completely new development and it has been revolutionary.

theartist · Jan 2, 2017

Not sure anythings changed modern fishing as much as the hair rig has.

chub_on_the_block · Jan 2, 2017

Things i have got most pleasure or usefulness out of are:

disgorger
stick floats
bacon sandwiches

nhs service · Jan 2, 2017

Carbon fishing rods certainly. I am old enough to have experienced the crossover and what an improvement they were.
Boilies, specialist fishing techniques generally becoming better known, a mixed blessing perhaps but every water will have someone with the rod pod and alarm set up. Alarms have been improved exponentially since the days of the Heron.
Online infornation, particularly the tackle review, advice and opinion forums, what a help they are.
Blogs not so much, an excuse to mention the sponsors mostly and few really divulge any information that isn't already well known.
Commercial fishing. Not my cuppa but it has been fascinating to watch the development of techniques and tackle.
Cheap imports, Dragon Carp etc. Bringing tackle down to ridiculously cheap prices, not good for the traditional tackle shop but making the sport accessible to anyone, particularly the young who can start fishing with gear that o.k., won't last forever but is perfectly useable. Better than me with dads rod with the broken tip and reel that didn't work properly.
All the best.

Mark Wintle · Jan 2, 2017

barbelboi said:
DW & Hardy developing carbon fiber rods in the late 70's...............

It was some years before that, possibly very late 60s or very early 70s. Certainly carbon match rods and poles were available (and very expensive) in 1975 which was some years after the first carbon fly rods.

bullet · Jan 2, 2017

Instant anti reverse

john step · Jan 2, 2017

Arlesey bombs.
fishing seat boxes and chairs as opposed to the wicker ones.
braid hooklengths
chemically sharpened hooks.

barbelboi · Jan 2, 2017

Mark Wintle said:
It was some years before that, possibly very late 60s or very early 70s. Certainly carbon match rods and poles were available (and very expensive) in 1975 which was some years after the first carbon fly rods.

Are you sure these weren't carbon/plastic, or similar composites Mark. I've just checked my memory with the fishing museum online and they seem to believe the first c/f rod was released in 1976.

robcourt82 · Jan 2, 2017

In my lifetime, hair rigs, carbon rods and long poles, baitrunners, alarms, continental seatboxes, the method and puller kits

trotter2 · Jan 2, 2017

Fibre glass and carbon rods.
Nylon line
The fixed spool reel
Commercially bred maggots

flightliner · Jan 2, 2017

Most of the time we are applying tackle to suit basic angling principles.. which never change,only the methods of delivering them which well established methods served as a springboard to improvements. Therefore each improvement owes its inception to the one that went before it.
With that in mind I can only come up with a feeder at the moment which I seen to have read somewhere were used as long ago as the 16th century.
As they say, nothings new in angling .

trotter2 · Jan 2, 2017

If I remember correctly it was early to mid 70s before I seen my first carbon rod
I think the very first ones were solid not tubular in construction

john step · Jan 2, 2017

trotter2 said:
If I remember correctly it was early to mid 70s before I seen my first carbon rod
I think the very first ones were solid not tubular in construction

I think that was about when I first saw one. I bought a Normark 13ft match (which I still have) for £100. I don 't pay that much for rods now!

trotter2 · Jan 2, 2017

Don't quote me on this but I think carbon boron was pioneered in the 60s but buy the time it was developed into comercally available rods is was the early 70s
If I am not mistaken the first rods were solid and made from a boron carbon mix.
Later rods became tubular . And yes most carbon rods were about the £100 mark.
Even Woolworths had then in by the mid 70s

Mark Wintle · Jan 2, 2017

barbelboi said:
Are you sure these weren't carbon/plastic, or similar composites Mark. I've just checked my memory with the fishing museum online and they seem to believe the first c/f rod was released in 1976.

I'd need to do some research but even a quick glance in the nearest set of magazines finds a 1975 Fisherman magazine reviewing an Orvis carbon fly rod. I can remember that it was Don's of Edmonton that had the first carbon match rods and poles. The match rods only really got going in 1978.

Keith M · Jan 2, 2017

Here's what I think could be the 10 most significant landmark developments that have happened in coarse fishing (not in any order):

The development of the very first fishing reel
The development of Nylon lines
Chemically sharpened hooks
The use of carbon fibre for fishing rods
Digital photography
Electronic bite indicators
The complete abolishment of the Gaff in freshwater fishing.
The age of the commercial fishery and easy convenient fishing (that'll draw a few bites Lol.)
The formation of the ACA to help bring polluters to task.
The age of the internet.

Keith

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