Don't want to state the obvious, but you are "batting the reel" to retrieve. PeteThanks for all the replies! Food for thought indeed. I may shelve this idea for the time being as I'm enjoying using my pins so much at the moment particularly my little Speedia. Found a great peg last week catching kipper dace all session. Great reel but struth just a twenty yard retrieval takes forever and a day. Could you use my Youngs BJ for a quicker retrieve but the Speedia is so charming and balances my 13' Accy Ultra perfectly.
More batting than Boycott! Still a pleasure to use.Don't want to state the obvious, but you are "batting the reel" to retrieve. Pete
This may not be of any use to you, except for morbid interest sake. Certainly not for the centre pin purists. In 1957 I bought a Speedia reel with my first weeks wages as an apprentice engineer, plus a "loan" from my Mother. It cost me 54 shillings. The first thing I did was to remove the handles, to make batting in more tangle free.I've used one of the 3d printed arbours but using fine line it sometimes goes down the edge so I have taken this off.
Trotter. Here's one you might like. Big Kev, master of the stick float. Not a centre pin in sight. PeteClosed face reels the better ones are the original mk1s like the 501 or 506. Not the new 506 I may add.
Finding a decent one can be difficult. I use nothing else for trotting a
1973 World match on a lake in France.Is that the Trent bracket? CIPS rules match (plastic container for the fish) ...so I’m guessing the friendly international vs France at Holme Marsh?
Silvers. Mark's got it right. The other guy is Stan Smith, the England team captain. Pete.Is that the Trent bracket? CIPS rules match (plastic container for the fish) ...so I’m guessing the friendly international vs France at Holme Marsh?
Well he weren’t fishing the stick float then was he!!! ;-)Silvers. Mark's got it right. The other guy is Stan Smith, the England team captain. Pete.
Although it seems to be at the same venue, I'm not convinced it's during the world match as there are differences to the set-up/peg to the photo on the cover of World CLass Match Fishing. A bit of a mystery.Well he weren’t fishing the stick float then was he!!! ;-)
yep ... recognised Stan
So if that was Chalon sur Saone. Is it the same peg from a Different angle that is on the cover of world class match fishing (flats opposite and cables overhead)?
He used to fish the Thursday night matches on Lymm Dam. My lad who was a junior angler for Lymm AC team at the time ,was given a few tips on how to fish his peg by Stu Conroy, ( him and and another Lymm Angler Derek Smith used to give my lad coaching lessons when they saw him fishing.)I picked the photo up off the Simple Match Fishing Facebook page. Lots of interesting stuff and nostalgia there. Well worth a look. Silvers, I doubt he was using a stick float but who can say, Kev could catch on a plank of wood. Pete