nostalgia – it ain’t what it used to be !

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- 13/12/2011 at 8:06 pm #49777
  TF_NoCarpPlease
  what is the oldest item of tackle that you regularly use?
  
  Mine are some mitchell matches that I bought off ebay, that are early 70’s model.
- 13/12/2011 at 8:18 pm #152334
  TF_Anthonywaters
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  Matchman hooktyre one thats well worn was my Dads must be early 70s
- 13/12/2011 at 8:23 pm #152336
  TF_geepster
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  Still got my grandad’s wicker creel and wooden winders … don’t use them but would not throw them away.
- 13/12/2011 at 8:23 pm #152337
  TF_ziggy169
  Mitchell Match as well from the 70’s probably got some floats in my box older than that!
- 13/12/2011 at 8:50 pm #152342
  TF_Anthonywaters
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  Are the dark Blue mitchell matches the earliest models ? we used have both colours kicking about.
- 13/12/2011 at 9:08 pm #152347
  TF_NoCarpPlease
  yes – the older models are darker. My oldest one doesn’t have a “roller” on the bail.
  
  of kit that I’ve bought new it must be my DAM quicksticks from 1984 … or my first Mitchell match – which may be a year or two older.
- 13/12/2011 at 10:00 pm #152357
  TF_billy the squid
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  I got a couple of old abu closed face reels, from childhood
  a 506 “i think? vry battered and old when i got it, still knocking round somewhere, and a 1044 which i had as a birthday prezzie!
- 13/12/2011 at 10:02 pm #152358
  TF_NoCarpPlease
  aye – but are you using them regularly?
- 13/12/2011 at 10:15 pm #152362
  TF_billy the squid
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  I never use these reels anymore!, just smell them every now and again,, Ahhhh the memories
- 13/12/2011 at 10:36 pm #152366
  TF_caster rob
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  506 and 501.
  
  Used as regularly as the Trent’s got some flow in it, which hasn’t been much this year.
- 13/12/2011 at 11:08 pm #152373
  TF_larryteepot
  I have a benny ashurst float road F/glass, it was the old mans ,its all i have left of his tackle now….is a cracking rod……i aint used it for a few years but would …who cares what it looks like 😀
- 13/12/2011 at 11:26 pm #152378
  TF_scarf
  I was using an old Speedia pin regularly, if twice a year can be called regularly, until a couple of years ago when I got an Okuma Sheffield. The Speedia’s in the garage, still in the cardboard box that it came in when I bought it as a youth. I might just take it for a spin this winter as it’s every bit as good as the Okuma in my opinion, just a bit slower on the retrieve because of the spool size.
  The Bruce and Walker CTM match rod that I used to use with it is still around but hasn’t been out of its bag for 30+ years.
- 13/12/2011 at 11:34 pm #152380
  TF_NoCarpPlease
  CTM – “Compound taper match”? I remember the hardy Matchmaker and Abu Zoom 6 as well ….. but the Shaky Match International was the real deal for me!
  I do remember lusting after the bruce & walker XLT.
  
  I gave my Match International away to a kid in the village after a while of owning my first carbon float rods …..big mistake huge mistake!
- 13/12/2011 at 11:52 pm #152384
  TF_scarf
  Compound Taper Match, yes that’s the one. I think it cost me £14 and took me six months to save up for out of my first wages. It was the best rod in the village, so good it landed a 7lb 10 oz barbel on a 1lb 8oz hooklength from the Ouse with no problems.
  Having said that thank god for the Chinese, tackle is so much more affordable these days.
- 14/12/2011 at 11:33 am #152411
  TF_One Out of the Frame
  I’ve got four original MAP Dave Harrell 13′ ST float rods that I have used since they first came out around 1988 I would guess.
  
  I’ve also got two Silstar Traverse X 3587/320’s from the same era.
  
  Hookwise, I still use Kamasan B520’s and B510’s that were developed around 1980 I would think.
  
  I’ve also got some Browning Profil whips circa 1989: By the way, they are not ‘robust’ enough for doing large weights of 6-12oz carp as I found out at Holly Farm a few years back. The resin seemed to part company with the carbon and I was left holding an open mesh weave!
  
  Perhaps the oldest item of tackle that I use is a pigtail disgorger that I had from the mid ’70’s: First class item of tackle as the hook cannot catch once it is removed.
- 14/12/2011 at 8:31 pm #152449
  TF_Gary
  Still using the hydrolastic I put in my top kits in 2006…
- 14/12/2011 at 9:27 pm #152457
  TF_caster rob
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  I remember my B&W CTM 12A – the “A” denoting more of a tip action.
  
  What a disappointment the subsequent 13A was, very difficult to produce a stiffish 13′ glass rod at the time.
  
  Thrn the XLT, first carbon rod I ever owned, and first rod to introduce me to crack-offs on the strike!
- 14/12/2011 at 10:32 pm #152466
  tornyal
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  Abu 501 506 mitchell prince intrepid delux and acouple of split cane rods to name but a few also keepnet that i hardly ever use cause i dont catch much these days ha ha lol
- 14/12/2011 at 10:39 pm #152468
  TF_billy the squid
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  lol, i can also remember my old first square keenets keepnet, open at both ends where you twisted the bottom ring and clipped it for easy weighing!! and a closed face shakespeare 2020, never seen one since!!!
- 15/12/2011 at 8:22 pm #152530
  TF_stevied
  @NoCarpPlease wrote:
  
  CTM – “Compound taper match”? I remember the hardy Matchmaker and Abu Zoom 6 as well ….. but the Shaky Match International was the real deal for me!
  I do remember lusting after the bruce & walker XLT.
  
  I gave my Match International away to a kid in the village after a while of owning my first carbon float rods …..big mistake huge mistake!
  
  the first thee rods mentioned are the short list i made when choosing my first rod in 1975. went home with the Hardy, 12 foot, a much better rod than the 13 footer. Thans dad, best glass rod ever. dad later got the Shakey International and regretted it ever since. he used that rod until he passed away in ’89 still wishing he had a Hardy.
  16 years ago my home was robbed 12 times in a year, lost 2 full sets of tackle that was the end of the Hardy.
  
  NoCarpPlease, a big thank you for the memory, made my christmas. 😀
- 15/12/2011 at 9:31 pm #152534
  TF_macca63
  Mine are a couple of ABU 501 reels, Milo Rubix 12ft road, Milo Delicia 6m whip, Browning Futura 4m whip, matchman hook tyer.
  
  Also found several boxes of Lion D’or hooks down to size 30 and two bags of Carr & Borley Leam in the garage a few weeks back!!
- 15/12/2011 at 9:39 pm #152536
  TF_The Runner
  Still regularly using an ABU 501 that was a 21st birthday present from my then girlfriend, 35 years ago now.
  As I always say, when it finally packs in I’ll miss it more than I’ve ever missed her.
  Never needed servicing either (the reel, that is, not her)
  
  Some of the whips that I still use regularly date back to 1990 ( full set of Browning Profils) and an even older 6m Sundridge Kevin Ashurst.
  
  Oldest piece of kit still in use, or at any rate still on a rod, is a small butt attachment with a thread , whiich I got mail order from Tom Watsons in Nottingham when I was 16 or so, and which has since found itself on any number of bomb rods and currently on one of my 13′ Normarks for the vanishingly rare occasions when I use a swingtip…
- 16/12/2011 at 12:01 pm #152555
  TF_One Out of the Frame
  I forgot to mention that I’m still using Shimano Supermatch RE’s and Daiwa 1657DM’s!
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