Take a Friend Fishing In Association with National Fishing Month – Boosting participation and industry growth for UK recreational angling through the winter. Existing fishing licence holders can register for a FREE one-day fishing licence from the Environment Agency at www.takeafriendfishing.co.uk to take someone they know fishing. The Winter holiday is a […]
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Hardy carved salmon migrate from HQ
24
Sep
Sep
Two Salmon and A C. Farlow cased Pike. It has been a great couple of weeks for our Art and Cased Fish Sections. Several Cooper/Griggs fish have been sold and we have parted with the two magnificent Hardy carved salmon in a private sale. A follow up to one of our newsletters led to the […]
24
Sep
Sep
Save the Date! Monday 29th September 2025 The Thomas Turner team are heading back to Northumberland! This will be our fourth time travelling back to Rod & Tackle in Cramlington, Newcastle for the Thomas Turner Fishing Antiques valuation day. Dave and his son Will, will be ready to greet you at Rod & Tackle from […]
17
Sep
Sep
Signed Watercolour of BEECHMERE POOL. (16” by 12 ¾” Framed) Maurice Ingham (The Carp Catchers’ Club, The Golden Scale Club) Annotated on the rear; “Watercolour of BEECHMERE POOL, near DREWSTEIGNTON in DEVON, by Maurice Ingham. Painted towards the end of 1996 or at the beginning of 1997, for Peter Wheat from a […]
Collecting, General articles, News & Events
Celebrating ‘BB’: Rare Artworks from the Peter Wheat Collection
10
Sep
Sep
Following the successful launch of the cased fish from the Peter Wheat collection we are ready to start listing some of the amazing artworks. Curated over a lifetime there are some amazing and highly desirable items from the likes of Denys Watkins-Pitchford, Bernard Venables, David Carl Forbes, John Searl and Maurice Ingham. Today we will […]
03
Sep
Sep
Not every angler has unlimited funds to spend on tackle, and that’s where the TT Tackle Outlet comes in. Alongside our medium and high-end gear, the collections we’ve been acquiring over the past year include a wide range of excellent, usable “budget-friendly” rods, reels, and tackle, covering coarse, sea, and game fishing. There’s something here […]
27
Aug
Aug
What with holidays and a record sales period we are now ready to commence the sale of the Peter Wheat Collection of fishing tackle (rods, reels, floats, lures, etc.), cased fish, Denys Watkins Pritchard (BB) original paintings and scraperboards and a plethora of angling memorabilia. Many items originating from angling legends such as Richard […]
Collecting, General articles, News & Events
In ‘case’ you were wondering… The Peter Wheat collection keeps getting better
30
Jul
Jul
I had a call to visit Peter Wheat last week the day before he went into to a nursing home. I helped him clear his flat and came away with another car full of interesting items from his collection. A few special items stayed with Peter. We now have close to 1000 PW items across […]
23
Jul
Jul
Are you travelling abroad soon, or travelling within the UK? Will you be fishing? What kind of rod do you take? Inevitably, fishing rods are long and inconvenient to travel with. Hence, the concept of the travel rod. The concept dates back centuries, with some of the earliest models being quite rudimentary compared to today’s […]
16
Jul
Jul
This weekend brought a truly special evening of fishing. I’d been photographing the Peter Wheat collection all weekend and couldn’t resist taking some of it for a trial. A nearby lake provided the setting and I tackled up with one of Peter’s favourite rods, a green fibreglass Avonmaster and a Mitchell 300 fixed spool […]