tortoise100
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Just purchased a shakspear ganza 12ft medium /heavy feeder rod second hand for £10 but it only had one of it's two tips intact.
This rod is only just over a year old the previous owner used it twice and on the second outing one of the tips was broken .
I took it out tonight for it's third outing and broke the other one no idea why just cast out the feeder and tried to wind in a bit only to find it a mess at the end.( I chopped of all the broken bits and continued )
I have been told about this problem at my local tackle shop ,the problem being having perfectly good feeder rods with **** weak tips that no one sells therefore scrap rods.
I have been in touch with shakespear who don't sell these as a spare item but gave me the details of a shop who is a service provider I am yet to find out if they have any or not.
My question is if the average ledger tip is going to last less than the average float why is it so hard to get new ones ? and why are they so rubish in the first place it can't be rocket science to produce ones that dont break easy in the first place yet are sensative enough.
One not very impressed feeder rod owner as if ledgering is not hard enough to try to get into in the first place no wonder .
I found a ledgering rod a few weeks ago floating in the local fishing slag heap in the centre of derby called marketon park, weed covering now up to 85% thanks derby city council for the great job! (go a couple of miles away to the posh part of derby and alestree lake is well looked after with no weed)Well thats proberbly where all the local councilers live etc.
It had a brocken tip proberbly why the litter lout dumped it.
Sorry for the rant fingers crossed I can get new tips or I will be trawling round tackle shops trying out anything they have.
This rod is only just over a year old the previous owner used it twice and on the second outing one of the tips was broken .
I took it out tonight for it's third outing and broke the other one no idea why just cast out the feeder and tried to wind in a bit only to find it a mess at the end.( I chopped of all the broken bits and continued )
I have been told about this problem at my local tackle shop ,the problem being having perfectly good feeder rods with **** weak tips that no one sells therefore scrap rods.
I have been in touch with shakespear who don't sell these as a spare item but gave me the details of a shop who is a service provider I am yet to find out if they have any or not.
My question is if the average ledger tip is going to last less than the average float why is it so hard to get new ones ? and why are they so rubish in the first place it can't be rocket science to produce ones that dont break easy in the first place yet are sensative enough.
One not very impressed feeder rod owner as if ledgering is not hard enough to try to get into in the first place no wonder .
I found a ledgering rod a few weeks ago floating in the local fishing slag heap in the centre of derby called marketon park, weed covering now up to 85% thanks derby city council for the great job! (go a couple of miles away to the posh part of derby and alestree lake is well looked after with no weed)Well thats proberbly where all the local councilers live etc.
It had a brocken tip proberbly why the litter lout dumped it.
Sorry for the rant fingers crossed I can get new tips or I will be trawling round tackle shops trying out anything they have.