Any of you budding Chris Yates’s out there will be absolutely thrilled with this Storm Kettle. This is the famous Eydon ‘Popular’ Storm Kettle as used by Chris in the ‘Passion for Angling’ series on TV and is fully endorsed by him. It is the traditional kettle of West of Ireland fishermen. 
Made from spun aluminium the kettle is a genuinely good-looking piece of kit, extremely well made, and boils water very quickly indeed. Whether it is practical in many fishing situations, however, depends on a number of factors. Not the least of these being if the fishery where you intend to use it allows you to light a fire, and if not, if this device can be construed as using a fire.
The problem is that you do have to light a fire in the base, and this fire uses natural materials such as dried grass, bracken and twigs that you have to collect from around you, or bring with you from elsewhere. And it is a fact that where there is fire there is usually smoke. There is more than one fishing club that will say that this constitutes an open fire in spite of the fact that the fire is largely enclosed in the base. So it would be as well to check if you would be breaking the rules of the fishery where you would like to use the kettle before you actually purchase one.
Where it is possible to use one, and you want to use natural, free fuel, boil up to two pints of water quickly, with something that is more in keeping with traditional values and isn’t troubled by wind or rain, then this kettle is most certainly for you.
Feeding the fire through the base and seeing those red embers through the stoking hole, and then watching the kettle boiling away, certainly gives you a more ‘at one’ feeling for the great outdoors. It really is a pity that there will be so many places where you won’t be allowed to use it.
Specifications
Capacity2 pints
Materialspun aluminium
Size6.5in dia, 10.5in height, 12in when on base
Weightapprox 800g when empty.
The price is about £ 50 and they’re available from:
The Eydon Kettle Company Ltd
PO Box 50
Daventry
Northants
NN11 3ZA
Telephone:01327 260303
Fax:01327 261800
