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Those of you who have been patient enough to have read through my tens of thousands of words on the subject, will know that Iím a bit of a centre-pin enthusiast. Aerial 4-5 – 1920 pattern Gough -There are only 5 Gough reels in the world Plowman #31 – Only about 35 Plowmans were made…

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Any of you even vaguely interested in the angling mags and big carp captures will recognise the name of “Darenth Big Lake” also known as “Darenth Syndicate Lake”. I don’t think a week goes by without at least one 40lb from Darenth entering the pages of the Magazines. Well, also in the Darenth complex are…

You know the score, The weekend comes round, and by the time you have done that little list of jobs that the good lady has compiled for you during the week, youíre lucky if you get half a days fishing in before it’s Monday morning and you are crawling in snail-like traffic, breathing in the…

I hadn’t heard anything like this since I was hitch-hiking across Australia on the big Mac trucks, back in the early CB radio days of the 70’s. Fascinating, but this was no truck, this was a Lake Erie muskie boat and the radio was just one of it’s built-in toys.The radios on the Lake Erie…

DIY rod ring replacement is not the technical matter that starting with a new blank can be. After smoothing the ring feet as shown last week, it is a simple matter of taping one of the ring feet to the blank with some Selotape so that it is in line with the existing rings. Using…