Recent content by OldGreyDog

Those Tidrift’s look good. I took delivery of a Tailwalk Hi-Tide last week which is possibly a similar style of rod.

Same here, I have no interest in match fishing these days. Regrettably the only way to weigh in a catch back then was to present it to the scales, dead, at the weigh-in. I used to be quite into it but nowadays I just go to enjoy the fishing, especially in the summer when I mostly chuck lures...

The rules for match fishing have likely changed since I fished matches over four decades ago, but I remember only one rod was allowed and maybe three (might have been two) hooks. We only ever took one rod with us back then, some only had one rod! Even though I was young, fit, and strong in...

I’ll pass on that. My shakespeare one, bought secondhand, is rock solid on any surface.

I think HTO are part of the same company and I have an HTO Nebula lure rod which is pretty decent. There are not many rods about which don’t have blanks or some other component thats been made in China. Generally you get what you pay for and while there are exceptions, avoiding the very cheap...

The current ones might be better - i’ve had mine about ten years. A lot of the time I use a manual vernier calliper or a micrometer, but my old micrometers are accurate, but ‘imperial’ so I have to run conversions. I don’t use them enough to buy metric ones.

I have some similar but from ALDI. Useful to have for all sorts of things - but i’ve found that I have to remove the battery when I finish using it because it will be completely dead the next time I need it.

FG knot for me. I use it for lure fishing (c20 lbs braid to fluoro) and for beach fishing (30 lbs braid to 60 lbs shock leader. They do need a bit of practice at first but you soon get used to tying them and i’ve not yet had one fail in use.

I’m new on this forum and a returner, so watching this for the future. Presently using my old MUSTO offshore Goretex bib n’brace for fishing. Had these for boating but no longer have a boat so using them, and the related jacket, for fishing. Its total overkill at their cost these days but i’ve...