A beautiful stained-glass window depicting Kingfishers, no house number, indicated “these are interesting people”. Graham and Christine have a unique, beautiful home. A walk through into the bar area brought me to a tackle collection. Graham inherited this from his father upon his untimely death on May 15th, 1990 whilst holidaying in Tenerife. Ted Carter’s […]
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Mar
Mar
Unit 4c1. Ellough Industrial Estate, Ellough Road, Beccles, NR34 7TE Thomas Turner will be at the angling centre to value or buy your tackle! So bring along any tackle you wish to have valued or sell to us. Payment is made on the day! We are looking for good condition quality fishing tackle. Coarse, game […]
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Mar
Mar
Once again, the valuation day at Dever Springs went down a treat. Leaving Staffordshire in the frozen north where even the eskimos in the garden were cold! On arrival at Dever Springs, Peter Cockwill was on hand as usual chatting fishery talk and taking bookings. For some people it was their first visit to Dever, […]
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Mar
Mar
The Impregnated split cane rods above are all hand built by the craftsman. This collection of fourteen Sharpe’s, mint to brand new rods, had to be bought. The previous owner, a lifelong angler, purchased these from the Sharpe’s shop in Aberdeen prior to its closure. He fished a couple of rods perhaps once or twice, […]
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Conjuring Coarse Magic – Bomb rod January
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Mar
Mar
6th January and the omens on the Wye are poor with heavy rain forecast in the Welsh mountains and the word going around that proper flood levels are on their way. It didn’t take much head scratching to decide on a Friday afternoon session-again short and sharp, barbel in mind. To be frank, given the […]
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Mar
Mar
Dever Springs, Barton Stacey, nr Winchester, Hampshire, SO21 3NP As part of Thomas Turner’s ongoing series of valuation days, John Stephenson will be at Dever Springs Trout Fishery on Saturday 11th March. Situated beside the River Dever (a tributary of the River Test), it is big fish water where many 20lb plus rainbows and browns […]
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Feb
Feb
An interesting email followed by many phone conversations saw Richard, our CEO hopping on a plane to Belfast. A lifelong game fisherman had decided to part with his collection of 101 Hardy rods and reels. This was no ordinary collection, as if 101 is, these are all brand new old stock Hardy rods and reels […]
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Conjuring Coarse Magic – January is for bombing!
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Feb
January 4th and I’m picking the Bomb adventure up after a few days working in Scotland but I’m happy to be home, to take the Bomb rods to their limits and back. (A bit OTT I know but I’m really fascinated to know what the design can do for us.) But what do I mean […]
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Feb
Feb
A collection recently purchased contained an Allcock’s Tarquin split cane fly rod. Catalogued as a beautiful fast action dry fly rod at a reasonable price, I am surprised I have not seen more of these. Built in a range of sizes 8-9ft, all two piece, they look every bit a winner. Having picked up the […]
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Feb
Feb
What a success! Probably the busiest of the BFF fairs in years, pre-show set up on the Friday was interesting. A client from the north of Scotland drove over 400 miles with a van full of tackle for me to go through. Spread over 18 feet of table and floor, it was an amazing collection […]