Old Nick
Well-known member
Last year I bought a Korum 50" brolly which when faced with anything stronger than a light breeze would turn itself inside out and bent the centre pole, therefore it became an expensive sun shade - so didn't see much use and got stuck in a corner after being used twice!
Now after several months of not going fishing for one reason and another I decided a visit to the local club water was in order and, as the weather has been so miserable was faced with the old conundrum - chance it and just get wet, or try and make the brolly work!
So a quick visit to Halfords and £7.99 later I got 3 x 5m bright orange guyropes, line adjusters, and 8 x 10" tent pegs.
Today went fishing and attached one of the guyropes to the top of the brolly, used the tent pegs (rather than the shorter Korum ones) to peg the thing down at the back and using the guyropes to run down the front pegged them down out of the way of me, my tackle, and out of tripping over range - and HEY PRESTO the useless piece of junk I had bought before was turned into a superb weapon against the elements withstanding gusts up to 20mph (according to the met office) and not a leak in sight! I was bone dry and didn't have to worry about the damn brolly - Fantastic, and even landed a couple of nice carp!
Why don't brolly manufacturers supply them with guy ropes, adjusters, and decent sized pegs - it would only cost a few more pennies and make a mediocre product brilliant!
Now after several months of not going fishing for one reason and another I decided a visit to the local club water was in order and, as the weather has been so miserable was faced with the old conundrum - chance it and just get wet, or try and make the brolly work!
So a quick visit to Halfords and £7.99 later I got 3 x 5m bright orange guyropes, line adjusters, and 8 x 10" tent pegs.
Today went fishing and attached one of the guyropes to the top of the brolly, used the tent pegs (rather than the shorter Korum ones) to peg the thing down at the back and using the guyropes to run down the front pegged them down out of the way of me, my tackle, and out of tripping over range - and HEY PRESTO the useless piece of junk I had bought before was turned into a superb weapon against the elements withstanding gusts up to 20mph (according to the met office) and not a leak in sight! I was bone dry and didn't have to worry about the damn brolly - Fantastic, and even landed a couple of nice carp!
Why don't brolly manufacturers supply them with guy ropes, adjusters, and decent sized pegs - it would only cost a few more pennies and make a mediocre product brilliant!