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#149532 - 11/03/03 01:46 PM £50-£70 you must must be joking
Steve75 Offline
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Registered: 06/01/03
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How many of you out there started carping with £50+ of rig bits in your tackle box or a £200+ bivvy or bedchair. I think the intruduction to carping section of C I F is just a glorified ad for leslies of luton.

In 1995 started with a second hand DAM rod and my old sislstar feeder reel. Night sessions were spent on a foam mat under old army poncho. With saved up cash i aquired an old oval brolly and a second rod from another carp lad on the lake. I have over the the years built up my kit usually second or hand through the network of friends i have made the years.Is'nt this the way many of us get kitted out? yes looking at my gear now there maybe £50 worh of rig bits,bivvys bedchairs and the rest.


Edited by Steve75 (11/03/03 03:52 PM)

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#149533 - 11/03/03 02:03 PM Re: £50-£70 you must must be joking
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When I started out had an Intrepid reel and a Shakespear Strike rod 10ft, washing up bottle tops and an Argos type brolly, fished for carp and caught !
Harv showing my age !!

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#149534 - 11/03/03 02:20 PM Re: £50-£70 you must must be joking
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What a great forum, always some thing to slag off!!!!!!!!!!!

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#149535 - 11/03/03 02:23 PM Re: £50-£70 you must must be joking
DJO Offline
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Registered: 23/11/01
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Loc: Dorset
Harv showing my age !!

And mine too !!!
Although I did aspire to tackle tart at a fairly early age when I upgraded from Intrepid to a Mitchell 300

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#149536 - 11/03/03 03:46 PM Re: £50-£70 you must must be joking
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Loc: Watford,Hertfordshire
Ah yes happy days! Living off of Pot Noodles for the week, sleeping on a sun lounger (how many of you suffered from flying springs bouncing off the side of your bivvy when you turned over in the night), Bite alarms that only dogs could hear if it was raining, 9 ft ledger rods with no name reels. Upright bivvies on a 50" brolly (used to be knicknamed t!t domes i think!) they kept you fit as you ran round the lake chasing your bivvy if the wind was more than 2 mph. A "mass baiting campaign" amounted to 20 boilies/ tin of sweetcorn. Gas cookers that froze up if it was less that 2 degrees. Wearing 16 pairs of socks inside your box standard wellies. Putting map pins into your rod handles as line clips.

Come to think of it, it's about time I upgraded some of this kit!

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#149537 - 11/03/03 05:13 PM Re: £50-£70 you must must be joking
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Ah, memories!
I too can remember Send Marketings Brollycamp, Windbeaters, those really poor banksticks with a brass top, black body and solid alloy tip, full cork handles and heron alarms.
Also, sunloungers that collapsed at the head end whenever you moved or had the legs fold up underneath you at the feet end.
Also, totally crap sleeping bags, Derri boots and black Sylcast!

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#149538 - 11/03/03 05:19 PM Re: £50-£70 you must must be joking
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And..................trapped fingers in your garden chair. Hair rigs, ha, that'll never work, arlseley bombs, ledger stops and specials.
Landing nets that out weighed the all up weight of the rest of your tackle, Mitchell 810's and ruck sacks that pulled you over.....backwards!

I remember when I saw the first rod pod, what the hell were those all about, get your mallet out you tart!

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#149539 - 11/03/03 05:21 PM Re: £50-£70 you must must be joking
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And.......there's more..........The Kevin Maddocks Adjusta Level Bedchair! (circa 1981)

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#149540 - 11/03/03 05:24 PM Re: £50-£70 you must must be joking
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Bloody hell lads.. you had all the luxuries there...I used to sit up all night on a deckchair..alarms..what were they? Bread paste on the line lit by a torch.
One thing that springs to mind though were the "rigs" we used when I were a lad.
About 2 feet 8lb maxima to a size 4 hook. Looped to mailine with a split shot then a piece of hard plastic tubing (like the inside of a bic pen) followed by a great big arsley bomb. The weight of the lead used to pull against the plastic keeping the hooklink well out of the way. (Going to play around with something similar now I've remembered..acts a bit like a boom)
We then used to wrap groundbait and stuff around the lead and lob it in the lake..early method feeder pioneers we must have been. Nowt new in fishing eh? This was 30 years ago!

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#149541 - 11/03/03 05:39 PM Re: £50-£70 you must must be joking
mart c Offline
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yes lads but you loved it really
mart

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#149542 - 11/03/03 05:44 PM Re: £50-£70 you must must be joking
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Humming the Hovis theme tune will be most appriorate whilst browsing this thread
Milbro spinning rod (the green solid glass one with Intrepid Black Prince.
A Webley & Scott 10` glass (Hardy clone) with a early 410 (dark blue)
Pic -
First "proper" dedicated carp set up and still in use uptil the 90`s for bobbin waters.Conoflex 11' 1.5tc with 300`s and Bamfords.

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#149543 - 11/03/03 06:02 PM Re: £50-£70 you must must be joking
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Carp fishing 1975 style. Sunlounger, 1 sealey carpmaster, 1 fibatube 10ft. Landing net was the top of a kep net, with a big knot 3 feet down. Unhooking mat was.....quite hard


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#149544 - 11/03/03 11:27 PM Re: £50-£70 you must must be joking
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"Living off of Pot Noodles for the week" and "Upright bivvies on a 50" brolly (used to be knicknamed t!t domes i think!)
at least that explains why your t#t dome appeared to be breathing by the end of the week

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#149545 - 12/03/03 04:36 PM Re: £50-£70 you must must be joking
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Kev Bab,you are a real proper tackle tartMatching rods and reels,obviously you had rich parents

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#149546 - 12/03/03 05:51 PM Re: £50-£70 you must must be joking
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And some stainless!
Awesome...I had one of those reels I think..with the "half" bail arm..that was the one that went flying out when my rod did a javeline imression..got the rod back, bit never the reel..what a screaming take..

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#149547 - 12/03/03 06:11 PM Re: £50-£70 you must must be joking
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No such look mate, i left school at 16 in 1976 and started work and been at it ever since

Had a set of early Tricasts as well 11' 2.25tc with 410A`s (light blue) but i did really want a set of Abu Cardinal 55`s (and so did everyone else at the time)

The stainless is Leslies original snag bars still the best and most solid goalpost system made for them by the now defunct Feltonquest Turned Parts - But i have seen copies of them recentish.
The Bamford conversions "finished" after the Dellareed - Del Romang battle of wits a bit more of which you`ll find in the history section of Delkim`s website.

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