tikka
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I have never backwound, use clutch .
I also ended up mashing up the gears too.
Paul wasn't claiming they were a great reel, only that they were usable off the clutch if you set them right.
You must also remember Paul that as a nipper the only reels there were available to us were centrepins, which you gained by swapping, trading for some item your mate wanted off you. Split the kipper knife comes to mind for one trade I made Flying goggles were always a good trade for good tackle of the day. These being liberated from Clayton Vale Aeroplane Dump if you had the bottle to brave the guard dogs and the mad bloke who owned it.
How and why there was such a place in Clayton Vale is to this day a mystery to me, but there was. And it was full of stuff post war kids wanted, and if you had it, it fetched the best trades.
A bomb-sight quite easily would get you a near new air rifle off somebody. What the crates of brand new Rolls Royce Merlin Spitfire engines would have got us is anybody's guess....probably a tackle shop! But despite our cunning and ingenuity such thoughts never occurred to us!
But when the BP came on the market it was for us kids, a step into the space age, as they could cast a float right across the canal with ease without having to pull line from every eye and every finger you had on your free hand.
If I was trying to back wind on the pike I caught today there is no way I would have kept up with it. Never had a pike fight like it.
I also have noticed it this year. Maybe its been the warmer water up till now.
Perhaps I never noticed such runs of power before as I don't start piking nowadays until Nov. It used to be Oct.
Perhaps those blokes that pike all year round have a point??
Trouble is there are so many things to go for and only one life.
I really don't know how I found the time to go to work:wh