Was looking through my dads old tackle that I’ve acquired since he died and came across these unopened unused hooks to nylon !

[christhoel]

 

[David Rogers 3]

That takes me back! In the mid-1960s,I always used to get a few packets of those for my birthday from my fishing uncle.

 

[mikench]

Before my time but I suspect good hooks in their day. You either retain them as a memory of your dad or, better still, use them and catch fish. Big or small they will bring a smile to your face and dare I say it, a tear in the eye.

 

[rayner]

I remember a few of the packets the Woolworth and Pegley Davis AU LION DOR are the ones that jog my memory. The decimal currency price ticket make them after 71 so not that old

 

[steve2]

Bring back memories I have used most of those. I recently found a pack of size 2 gold strike hooks and a pack size 6 speed barb hooks my go to hooks for carp and barbel back in the late 60's early 70's.
Still see myself sitting on the bank, hook sharpener in hand putting a sharpe point on them.

 

[bracket]

Colin Perry, a good Trent angler from Mansfield. I fished against him in the Notts Fed open matches many a time. Pete.

 

[rich66]

I’ve still got a woolworth one myself knocking around somewhere.
Nice memories

 

[108831]

Used to use those early 70's,can't remember but are they whipped on a straight shank?

 

[christhoel]

Used to use those early 70's,can't remember but are they whipped on a straight shank?

Not sure without looking

 

[silvers]

Colin Perry, a good Trent angler from Mansfield. I fished against him in the Notts Fed open matches many a time. Pete.

“The laughing log” is still around and winning, he’s had a (static) caravan in Stratford-on-Avon for many years so spends a lot of his leisure time down this way (Still lives in Mansfield though).
he’s won two rounds of our teams league on the Warks Avon at Barford this season ... first with a big twenty of Barbel on the pole, and then on Saturday with dace caught on the whip (I would have beaten him if I hadn’t been mullered by Pike though!).
absolute gent.

 

[christhoel]

Great to see people know these things and the guy is still doing what he likes

 

[bracket]

I

“The laughing log” is still around and winning, he’s had a (static) caravan in Stratford-on-Avon for many years so spends a lot of his leisure time down this way (Still lives in Mansfield though).
he’s won two rounds of our teams league on the Warks Avon at Barford this season ... first with a big twenty of Barbel on the pole, and then on Saturday with dace caught on the whip (I would have beaten him if I hadn’t been mullered by Pike though!).
absolute gent.

Silvers. Thanks for that. By the way do you happen to know Terry Moroz? Pete.

 

[silvers]

Pete,

I’ve chatted with him a few times at Button on Trent matches and when I went to Colin Walton’s matches at Newark more regularly about 8 years ago.
I doubt he’d know who I am

 

[The bad one]

AU LION DOR what a hook for big fish. You could turn a battleship on its back with a 4s hook. Still have a few in my hook stash and use them when crust fishing for chub. Put one of them in a chub's gob and it's never coming off. The only draw back is they are very heavy wire forged hooks. ​

 

[108831]

Yes Phil,they really were heavy,I think I have an old flat box of size 6's in my document box,dont ask me why,i'm as confused as you,I go in there once a year...