Today I managed to wangle half an afternoon out fishing - so I threw some gear in the back of the car and trundled down to my favourite local stillwater.

Pleasant afternoon, and as I had no real need of fish, decided to play silly bu8gers.

Cheapest rod - a vantage 8' #4(£20) - teamed with an old Rimfly regular(Ebay £6) which had been fitted with a Norris Mill end (£4.99) - homebrewed knotted tapered leader and only home-tied barbless flies .

Had a cracking couple of hours - hooked and played four of which three were landed - biggest about 3.5 lbs and all on different flies.

Grand fun.

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This post might just generate some comment about expensive tacke, or not, meethinks!

Jeff

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Location - Just outside of Nottingham - Robin Hood country!

Downstream, I also have the vantage 8' #4. I've been using it on the small carp in my local pond, 6lb is the largest so far. Being a 4 piece they are easy to stash in the car boot for a quick fish anywhere.

Cheers, Dave.

If you had a sage rod and reel you could have caught 12 trout

Col

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"It is not easy to tell one how to cast. The art must be acquired by practice."

"When my ship comes in" i will have sage etc.The lads that use sage, Hardy etc more power to ye.

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When the bugle sounds The last parade
and the light grows dim in the eye,
Make sure you say at the pearly gates
That you've come for the evening rise.

Well done Downstream, just goes to show doesn't it.
Not selling my rods though, I am too much of a tackle tart now.

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Ti's here beneath this sturdy bridge,where bats and moths do fly,
That the wily trout of the smallest size, against a rock doth lie. SKB tackle supporter. I love Furled Leaders.

its not how good it is, its how you use it as a old girlfried once said

There's already a thread about that very subject out there <<<>>> somewhere .

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Previously known as molley
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Don't call me "mate" .

You use and enjoy whatever you feel best suits.

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Sounds rather like my normal tackle ...... I've been using a Rimfly now for thirty years and can't see me changing now I even got another from Ebay, unused, just in case anything goes wrong with this one, but it seems to soldier on.

I may upgrade if I win the lottery but after this long, my old gear is just an extension of my arm, I've got used to how to fish with it. Mind you the rod is fairly new, I've only had that twenty years but I'm slowly getting used to it.

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Nature is by and large to be found out-of-doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs. Franz Lebowitz