Tucked away and almost forgotten about.

[Peter]

After reading @Silverfisher 's post "How much tackle you got" I wondered just how accurate some of those lists were. If like me you've been fishing for a good few years there's probably a good few with stuff tucked away that hasn't seen the light of day for a good few years. Bit's of kit that you meant to move on but never got round to, stuff that just got relegated as your style of fishing changed.
I'm not talking rubbish bits that didn't do their job and deserved nothing but the bin but perfectly serviceable bits and pieces that maybe just went out of style of got superseded by the next latest/greatest must have that we are all susceptible when we wander into a tackle shop for a pint of maggots and come out of there only to find that we have somehow parted with considerably more than the cost of that original pint of maggots.

Anyway this morning I'm putting some stuff up in the loft for Mrs M and out of the corner I spy a box marked "Odds & Sods", it's been up there since we moved and as It's an old box was probably packed long before we moved anyway. Yep you've guessed, bits and bobs of tackle amongst the other stuff in there.

Exibit 1 your honour, a Daiwa 120M closed face reel, put away in it's pouch in gawd knows when along with a spare spool, but the line might just need replacing..........

​

Then a box with a good 100+ floats that for some reason got consigned to the land of the forgotten........................

Drennan Carp Crystals that probably made way for Pellet Wagglers


Fox Dave Coster Shallow Water Wagglers


Sundridge Compalite Wagglers


Drennan Zoomer and an Ultra Onion


Drennan Balsa Antenna and a Drennan Canal Grey


Billy Makin Greys
​

All of the above forgotten about as time has marched on but some of them will definitely be coming out of retirement in the months that lie ahead.

 

[The Landlord]

I've just been having a sort out as well & putting some bits in a box that I don't need. I'll leave them at the club hut for juniors or anyone else to help themselves to.
However, I came across a small set of "orange syringes" that came with the job lot of tackle I bought. Always wondered what the hell they were used for. Turns out they're Frenzee bread punches
I'm made up because I was going to buy a set of those new Matrix ones. Tenner saved!!

 

[dave the fish]

Im sure we can all do the same. I know I have 2x Abu 501s, 2x 1044s and an Abu 506 stashed away at the bottom of the cupboard plus a number of extra long wagglers and big pole floats bought for Ireland over 20 years ago. I wonder if @Dave Spence needs any.

 

[smiffy]

Makins canal greys,hmmmm. I remember treating them with little respect. Snapping them all the time, believing I’d be able to replace them forever.

 

[tipitinmick]

Crikey, I thought my 120M was in good nick. Yours looks brand new Peter.

 

[warrington63]

I have some makin canal greys and a set of Image balsa wagglers, the ones with a peg at the bottom.

 

[Silverfisher]

Having only been fishing 16-17 years I'm confident my list is about 90% complete. That said since I did it its occurred to me that's there an I think okuma reel in amongst my stuff that I hadn't listed and pretty sure I had a carpy type rod as well at some point

Also the stuff I listed is what I've got at mostly our house with a few bits at my grandparents coastal bolt hole but when we moved to this house a couple years ago all my gear went in my grandparents garage at their actual house down the street for a few months. When I transferred it over to our place I was obviously only looking for stuff I knew that I had so there's no doubt the odd random thing still at my grandparents as I've already found the odd thing since.

To confuse matters further when my uncle got divorced his and my cousins tackle got put in my grandparents garage at their old house and when he got his new place he only recollected what he knew he had so there's still some of their stuff in my grandparents current garage. All the tackle in that garage also spent time in the garage of our old house when my grandparents moved house a while back.

Therefore all that considered I still occasionally find bits of my grandad's, uncle's and cousin's tackle amongst my tackle and grandad often finds bits of my uncle's, cousin's and occasionally my tackle amongst his tackle!

So like I say I'm sure of about 90% of what I have but occasionally something else reappears

 

[trotter2]

Im sure we can all do the same. I know I have 2x Abu 501s, 2x 1044s and an Abu 506 stashed away at the bottom of the cupboard plus a number of extra long wagglers and big pole floats bought for Ireland over 20 years ago. I wonder if @Dave Spence needs any.

Mite of interest in your 501s if your selling

 

[Peter]

Crikey, I thought my 120M was in good nick. Yours looks brand new Peter.

Told you that I've always looked after my kit Mick.

 

[tipitinmick]

Told you that I've always looked after my kit Mick.

I think my one needs some more of that pipe cleaner stuff putting around the spools. Other than that it works fine. Wish it was a bit quicker on the retrieve though.

 

[Total]

Told you that I've always looked after my kit Mick.

That thumbwheel on the 120m handle could do with a clean though our Peter....

 

[Reuben]

I’d be interested in some of those floats if you ever get the urge to clear out.....

 

[Peter]

I’d be interested in some of those floats if you ever get the urge to clear out.....

As you may have guessed from this thread, I have a problem clearing stuff out.

 

[Zerkalo]

I've got a couple of those Drennan Carp Crystals but can't remember using them much. My Canal Greys are long gone. Looking through what I have left of pole floats from 20 years ago I have a few Preston Tysons I used to use quite a bit, or at least they were similar to them, and it looks like they still do some of those. I doubt I would use them again now.

 

[minkyandbear]

After reading @Silverfisher 's post "How much tackle you got" I wondered just how accurate some of those lists were. If like me you've been fishing for a good few years there's probably a good few with stuff tucked away that hasn't seen the light of day for a good few years. Bit's of kit that you meant to move on but never got round to, stuff that just got relegated as your style of fishing changed.
I'm not talking rubbish bits that didn't do their job and deserved nothing but the bin but perfectly serviceable bits and pieces that maybe just went out of style of got superseded by the next latest/greatest must have that we are all susceptible when we wander into a tackle shop for a pint of maggots and come out of there only to find that we have somehow parted with considerably more than the cost of that original pint of maggots.

Anyway this morning I'm putting some stuff up in the loft for Mrs M and out of the corner I spy a box marked "Odds & Sods", it's been up there since we moved and as It's an old box was probably packed long before we moved anyway. Yep you've guessed, bits and bobs of tackle amongst the other stuff in there.

Exibit 1 your honour, a Daiwa 120M closed face reel, put away in it's pouch in gawd knows when along with a spare spool, but the line might just need replacing..........

​

Then a box with a good 100+ floats that for some reason got consigned to the land of the forgotten........................

Drennan Carp Crystals that probably made way for Pellet Wagglers


Fox Dave Coster Shallow Water Wagglers


Sundridge Compalite Wagglers


Drennan Zoomer and an Ultra Onion


Drennan Balsa Antenna and a Drennan Canal Grey


Billy Makin Greys
​

All of the above forgotten about as time has marched on but some of them will definitely be coming out of retirement in the months that lie ahead.

Crickeys Peter if I didn't know better I'd swear you'd been rummaging in my garage, but I then realised it is a 120M and mine is a 125M.

During the first lockdown I stripped down and recommissioned my pair of Daiwa Baitrunner style reels, circa 1988 I guess. They felt really good but seem to have vanished back into the mists of time once again

 

[Cobweb]

I recognise a lot of that gear! I'm sure I've still got some of those floats around (needs a rummage) from 30 years ago, am hanging on to my old Drennan stick floats worked wonders for me.

 

[matt]

Have been doing the same myself recently and unearthed some old gear I’d completely forgotten about.... old Image Caster Wagglers, Middy Streamline Blues and a Canal Grey plus a full set of Middy FF Special Canal Wagglers!

 

[Dave Spence]

Im sure we can all do the same. I know I have 2x Abu 501s, 2x 1044s and an Abu 506 stashed away at the bottom of the cupboard plus a number of extra long wagglers and big pole floats bought for Ireland over 20 years ago. I wonder if @Dave Spence needs any.

Yes he does, especially an ABU 1044

 

[Dave Spence]

Told you that I've always looked after my kit Mick.

Yeah, but at the expense of poor @Dave 's nuggets

 

[Dave Spence]

I think my one needs some more of that pipe cleaner stuff putting around the spools. Other than that it works fine. Wish it was a bit quicker on the retrieve though.

That's a sign of age mate, the retrieve is fine it's just your wrist that is slowing down.