BARRYBLOKE
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I got shut of my poles 2 years ago. However my mucker loaned me a pole a couple of months back. I dont know why, but he did.
Well it was an old margin pole he had off me when I was getting rid of stuff. A Browning 7 metre margin aggressor. A beast of a pole.
This week I realy fancied having a pop with it but after using it a couple of weeks ago for an hour I found the elastic was to beefy and to tight for what I wanted and so I renewed it.
Id been told that Midi Hi Viz was back on the market and as that was the only elastic I ever used when I was into it that was that.
Into the shop and there was the familiat Middy bright yellow and bright orange. Exactly what I wanted. Being parked on double yellows outside it was in and out and gone.
I noticed that the price of the yellow was twice the price of the orange but "Hey ,how many times have anglers been a victim of that scam. Take it off the shelves, see how people miss it and then bring it back at triple the price"???? Common practice in fishing gear.
Being in a hurry I cynically assumed it to be the case again.
It was when I came to taking it out and threading it up that I noticed I had got hollow elastic.
I had never used it before and so in it went as usual through 2 sections.
First chuck yesterday on the paste. Lifted into a lump and out went the laccy, and out, and out, and out, and out. It was bloody awful. I had no idea whatsoever how big the cod was on the other end or what species it was even. I had zero control over it with 7 metres of pole and thirty metres of bloody elastic out.
One good thing was that it cured my mates hiccups. He was doubled up laughing and stealing the urine.
After just basicaly holding onto the pole in Newport for what seemed to be half the morning with this lump somewhere over by Cardiff railway station it started to come in and I saw the tail and indeed it was a carp. The way it felt on the laccy I had it pegged for a big slab. I called Ken over to net it and got up off my seat and walked backwards.
I now have Ken trying to net the fish and 4 nosy anglers on my peg between myself and the fish. Im 20 yards away with the pole up in the air walking backwards up the hill and I cant see a bloody thing as regards were the fish is and my peg is heavily reed fringed.
Suddenly from above my head comes the sound of crumbling carbon fibre and there is the 2 section hanging like a giant swingtip, fortunately as it goes so does Ken with the net and theres an 8lb common.
The broken section was only a universal top set and I have several of those still hanging around so nothing lost there.
Tell you what though [
][] I felt a right t*t [][]
Well it was an old margin pole he had off me when I was getting rid of stuff. A Browning 7 metre margin aggressor. A beast of a pole.
This week I realy fancied having a pop with it but after using it a couple of weeks ago for an hour I found the elastic was to beefy and to tight for what I wanted and so I renewed it.
Id been told that Midi Hi Viz was back on the market and as that was the only elastic I ever used when I was into it that was that.
Into the shop and there was the familiat Middy bright yellow and bright orange. Exactly what I wanted. Being parked on double yellows outside it was in and out and gone.
I noticed that the price of the yellow was twice the price of the orange but "Hey ,how many times have anglers been a victim of that scam. Take it off the shelves, see how people miss it and then bring it back at triple the price"???? Common practice in fishing gear.
Being in a hurry I cynically assumed it to be the case again.
It was when I came to taking it out and threading it up that I noticed I had got hollow elastic.
I had never used it before and so in it went as usual through 2 sections.
First chuck yesterday on the paste. Lifted into a lump and out went the laccy, and out, and out, and out, and out. It was bloody awful. I had no idea whatsoever how big the cod was on the other end or what species it was even. I had zero control over it with 7 metres of pole and thirty metres of bloody elastic out.
One good thing was that it cured my mates hiccups. He was doubled up laughing and stealing the urine.
After just basicaly holding onto the pole in Newport for what seemed to be half the morning with this lump somewhere over by Cardiff railway station it started to come in and I saw the tail and indeed it was a carp. The way it felt on the laccy I had it pegged for a big slab. I called Ken over to net it and got up off my seat and walked backwards.
I now have Ken trying to net the fish and 4 nosy anglers on my peg between myself and the fish. Im 20 yards away with the pole up in the air walking backwards up the hill and I cant see a bloody thing as regards were the fish is and my peg is heavily reed fringed.
Suddenly from above my head comes the sound of crumbling carbon fibre and there is the 2 section hanging like a giant swingtip, fortunately as it goes so does Ken with the net and theres an 8lb common.
The broken section was only a universal top set and I have several of those still hanging around so nothing lost there.
Tell you what though [
][] I felt a right t*t [][]
