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Rigged and Ready Travel Fishing Rod X5 Combo

You can have my fishing rods John
you've been the best Son in Law ever.
What a man.

Better than my totally useless two sons Pinky and Perky.
Andrew and I enjoyed sea fishing off the Needles. Since he popped off in 95. It was only when his house was finally sold a couple of years ago, by chance I managed to get my rods I was promised all those years ago, or those that were left still in the garage.
His things I was not allowed to touch were in a locked garage. With a fancy wall mounted combination box containing all the keys.
John if you want any of the crap we don't want what's left, before the house is sold come and collect this week.
So I hired a truck hundred miles each way.
I didn't ask the wife's brothers for the fishing kit, I knew over the years they had been selling the split cane and valuable kit off..
I'm ten years older they were young children 45 years ago when I married the eldest sister. We've never been close..
The remaining furniture was only crap a broken chain saw, two lawn mowers that didn't work a broken hedge cutter and old furniture all ready for the tip really.
So the forbidden zone was everything locked in the garage!!
A challenge I liked, nobody offered to help even though they were local I've driven all that way and paid basically for rubbish collecting. Two minutes later I've cracked the combination Andrews date of birth 1928 silly buggers..
An Aladdins cave.. A hidden hoard of everything I fancy boating and fishing. A Boat Engine, ropes, oares, the 9tpft tender itself, trailer and up above in the rafters lots of long tubes all the sea fishing rods. The reals and river fishing kit had gone apart from a huge box of fly fishing ties and specialist bits and bobs.
All loaded on my transit and on it's way to Norfolk.
One mower a huge Atco a big cricket green professional jobby and the other mower were an easy fix just perished fuel pipes and an incorrect spark plug fitment Chainsaw was working.
I had a call from one of them they had heard I'd got the kit working, it wasn't fecked and they wanted it back. LOL..
No mention of the fishing rods concealed along the garage rafters, I don't think the knew they were sea rod tubes at all.
Strangely, I negotiated a swap for the large mower and the chain saw in exchange for a selection of Oak furniture the wife Karen fancied. I hired the same Transit again went back unloaded again all on my own, its a big mower. Unlocked the garage a second time. I am sure, they didn't know, I had solved the combination puzzle.
Removed even more tasty boating kit I won't mention just in case!! Karen by the way does not know about the sea rods so don't mention Andrews fishing rods, if you see her..

If anybody is interested in Sea rods I'll let you know what is in the tubes. All at least thirty years old and absolutely still brand new.
 
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Interesting turn of events and outcome Will :thumbsup:
Hope you have a pleasant surprise when you open the tubes and inspect your bounty.

Fingers crossed you may find a nice "Abu Atlantic 484 Zoom"amongst it all :)........not worth a fortune......but one of the nicest all round beach rods you could wish for.....I had one in the early 80s.
Stripped it...... as it was getting quite tired.....removed the cork on the butt section( one piece Aluminium )......took off the old wire rings and whipping......rubbed down the top section and resprayed it black........I replaced the eyes with Fuji's and whipped them on at the original spacings using Maroon colour whipping thread.........butt section was rubbed down and sprayed.....then shrink tubed.....black.
Did not replace the reel seat......preferred the adjustable coasters so the reel could be used up....or down.......lovely rod to cast and would send a 5oz lead a long way......bite detection was brilliant!!

Wish I had never sold it on :rolleyes:.......one of the best rods I ever owned.

Look forward to some pictures of the rod's when you have a minute :thumbsup:
 
Ok Willie Thank you

I will my pictures are not worth a good tune but I shall indeed today post some pictures.
Two I wouldn't sell the rod my father in law was so very kind and generously allowed me to use. The other his own rod
not that I can really remember which particular rod that might have been.
I still use the Lawn Mower and Hedge Cutter.
I hope my gaggle of Son in Law are as passionate as I.
Four daughters and Three Granddaughters. I've never had a son to share fishing and shooting and arm wrestling and leg pulling and story telling. Like Andrew and I did.
 
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Somebody has nicked some of my tubes.
What an Irony!! I bet it was my Son in Law Greasy Head
What done it. Soon I will write a catalogue of what's what.
Let me know what you think Willie.
 
Thought I had Run out of time

Anyway

SENSOR-Z S120m
Surf Casting Special.

Shakespeare Onset Gold
Beach Caster 3.06m fixed spool.

As above but Multiplier Guides.

Lastly
PENN LONG BEACH
3366c-6.5
Medium Heavy Action
20-40lb
 

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They all look in lovely condition and have been cared for Will :thumbsup:
Hope you get a lot of enjoyment from them..... and the memories flood back from sessions and time on the beach with the Farther in law :)

Nice assortment of fly tying bits n bobs as well :thumbsup:
 
Only the one rod, the last rod is the rod I might use
for boat fishing. I did go for Mackerel one time on a boat from Brancaster Harbour.
Greasy Head Horse daughters first victim.
She's on her third victim right now. She gets married more times than I've bought new shoes. I did like him, that one chap he was a farmer the only trouble being he was a raging alcoholic.
Big twin turbo 1500bhp Stomper or Romper Fairline.
Andy and I trolling basically, multi hooked boat rods following the fish by radar pulling your rod up and down at sixty.
The Mackerel were throwing themselves on the bateless and feathered massive hooks. Shockingly bad waste of breakfast eating feed. When we arrived back between us we had in bags fifty fish probably thirty anyway as big as Karen's thighs.
We started off at the Neptune then the Jolly Sailers, The Lord Nelson, The Ship lastly the Life Boat at Thornham. Andy and I both thought we would swap fish for beer.
We couldn't give them away. I had to take them all home and my poor old Mother 92 she was then Ma had to gut them.
Poor Begger.. Every bodies Freezer was full. The chap at the post office Patrick, he had them in the end for his paper round.
When at my house not Mothers I did leave two Mackerel out side for the farm cats all night. The next morn very surprisingly, the two fishes were uneaten and still in the bowl.
I was going to dispose of them. At the time I was going to take some Mackerel to a lady down the road. But Karen interferring said she would pop them in for me..
Later that afternoon with horror I found out Karen had taken the wrong two fish. She had taken the two fish that had been outside all nite!!
I decided not to say anything to anyone. Of all the Mackerel I had given away. The only folk that bothered to say thank you,
Were those same two old pensioners that had the Cat Fish.
They thought they were lovely..
That was the last time I went sea fishing.
 
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