Ah a willy waving thread, well let's see if mine turns out to be Donkey Kong or a 2 incher
Started off just over a couple years ago after a long hiatus (since childhood really) of not fishing, bought a job lot of piking gear from ebay for £350 including 2 Wychwood Agitator 10ft deadbait rods and 2 Fox EOS 10000 reels with a whole host of other piking related stuff.
Fast forward a year or so to last summer and finally got the itch to take up coarse fishing again on a local pond so not knowing any better i bought a Korum all rounder 12ft 1.5lb rod (50 notes i think) and a Korum Axis 3000 reel (40 notes?) and used it for waggler and feeder, i didn't know about clipping up yet with feeders so was a bit hit and miss, but managed to fluke some nice fish. Eventually bought a MAP ACS 4000 reel (2nd hand, 30 notes) so i could learn about clipping up
Couple months later got the upgrade itch again and bought a Daiwa Yank n Bank 10ft (80 notes) method rod (realising i needed a proper tip rod) and a Cadence CS10 3000 reel (90 notes) (just missed out on the cadence 2 for 1 by a couple days!!) and this served me for pretty much all of my tip rod fishing for the rest of the year.
Fast forward to September / October and pike season is almost upon us again, Dad has retired now and i take him fishing quite a lot, but don't have enough gear for both of us to go deadbaiting. I donate my Wychwood Agitators and Fox EOS reels to him (even though he only fishes one rod) and decide to treat myself to brand new pike rods and reels that should hopefully last me 20 years.
I buy an 8ft 40-80g Daiwa Prorex E spinning rod and an 18 Prorex V LT 3000 reel for my lure setup (about 200 notes all together) and hasn't had much use yet with the s**t weather.
Also invested in 2x Greys Prowla Platinum 12ft 3lb deadbait rods and 2x 5500 Shimano Ultegra XTC CI4+ for my deadbait setup (600 notes worth of rods and reels) So my piking gear has cost me about £800 so far this winter and that's without all the terminal tackle i keep buying
Looking ahead to the warmer weather i've got a bit of an upgrade on for the coming year, decided to invest in a better rod and reel for float fishing and considering how impressed i was with the Greys pike rods i thought i'd give their coarse stuff a go.
Bought an 11ft Greys Prodigy TXL Specimen (£70) for waggler work, this will be my allround float rod for tench and mudpigs
Paired it with the fantastic Magsealed Daiwa EM MS 2506h for £50 from Bobco.
Looked to do some Distance feeder work this year and i've decided i need 2 rods for this, one place i need a 75yd chuck where the Carp can go to 30lbs so settled on:
12ft Greys Prodigy TXL Barbel in 2lb t/c with 3 nice tips (£125 i think)
Paired with a Daiwa TDR Distance 25QD (£270 i think)
Thinking about the likes of Barston and Boddington where i might need a bigger chuck i've been thinking about a Daiwa Cast'izm rod or a Tournament SLR which will cost me some more pennies, will be paired with the existing TDR distance.
So apart from chairs, landing nets and pellet wetters, terminal tackle etc, that's pretty much all my tackle so far
