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Phil Hackett
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I was thinking the other night (dangerous I know) about what would peeve me the most if I lost it.
Now I’m a self-confessed grunp if I lose anything (a state of mind that comes with age I recon), a bivvy peg, a swivel carelessly dropped, all really bug me. If I lose anything larger a bank stick or such like, it really gets to me for days afterwards, and I’ll turn out the car, fishing cupboard and anywhere else I think it might be, to find it.
Whilst mussing the other night I came up with one item that would break my heart to lose and that was my threaded brolly spike. I’ve had this piece of kit for about 25 years, its outlived 5 brollies and been round the UK that many time I couldn’t count. Its witnessed impassively and metaphorically all my PBs, lost fish, friends now dead and countless other events in my angling journey over those years.
Its helped keep me dry, steadfastly anchored in the ground as hooligan wind and rain has ravaged some northern upland reservoir whilst piking or perching during the winter. Held fast whilst monsoon rain has hammered down on some Cheshire/Shropshire mere when breaming and tenching. Acted to support a brolly for shade when the sun is too hot to sit in. Its been a surrogate machete when beating down the vegetation to get to an unfished swim on many rivers I fish.
Yes it’s only a brolly spike I know, but for me it’s something that I am attached to greatly, it’s history my history, a piece of kit that’s always with me and to lose it………
So what’s your piece of kit like this?
Now I’m a self-confessed grunp if I lose anything (a state of mind that comes with age I recon), a bivvy peg, a swivel carelessly dropped, all really bug me. If I lose anything larger a bank stick or such like, it really gets to me for days afterwards, and I’ll turn out the car, fishing cupboard and anywhere else I think it might be, to find it.
Whilst mussing the other night I came up with one item that would break my heart to lose and that was my threaded brolly spike. I’ve had this piece of kit for about 25 years, its outlived 5 brollies and been round the UK that many time I couldn’t count. Its witnessed impassively and metaphorically all my PBs, lost fish, friends now dead and countless other events in my angling journey over those years.
Its helped keep me dry, steadfastly anchored in the ground as hooligan wind and rain has ravaged some northern upland reservoir whilst piking or perching during the winter. Held fast whilst monsoon rain has hammered down on some Cheshire/Shropshire mere when breaming and tenching. Acted to support a brolly for shade when the sun is too hot to sit in. Its been a surrogate machete when beating down the vegetation to get to an unfished swim on many rivers I fish.
Yes it’s only a brolly spike I know, but for me it’s something that I am attached to greatly, it’s history my history, a piece of kit that’s always with me and to lose it………
So what’s your piece of kit like this?