Your first rod and reel!!

RL83

RL83

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Hi all:D:D
just curious what was the first rods you had:confused:
mine was a shakespear firebird rod and reel combo off me gran for me birthday! more suited to a country stream then the tyne but it never failed me! i still have the reel which makes it nearly 17-18yrs old! and the rod is still going strong to but thats in plymouth with my cousins son!
i still have and use my first ever multiplier too a shakespear neptune(iknow!:rolleyes:)
but i have never had any bother with it so ive kept with it!:)
 
My first rod was a fiberglass 10 foot job, full cork handle and heavy ceramic rings. Paired with a sea streak reel!
 
oh you had a screamer:D: someone told me they were virtually birds nest proof?? wouldnt mind getting a hold of one now! there on ebay all the time but always get snapped up!:)
 
first rod n reel

first rod n reel

My first rod n reel 12ft hollow fibre glass rod with a Penn Sea Boy. It caught some fish them days.
 
RL83 said:
oh you had a screamer:D: someone told me they were virtually birds nest proof?? wouldnt mind getting a hold of one now! there on ebay all the time but always get snapped up!:)
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I done exactly what you were thinking. I bought one on eBay for 14 quid last year. Bloody great nick. Got it wrapped up in bubble wrap now
 
nice one!!:):)
ive got an old penn 160 beachmaster aswell bud! took it fishing the other week for the first time in years and it cast like a dream! it dont have brake blocks or magnets!! only trouble the retrieve is only 3.1 so kept getting snagged up on the way back in!! apart from that a lush reel to use!!
 
Mine was a Kingfisher Junior leger rod, 6ft, teamed with a kingfisher Ace 300 reel. I was 8 years old when a first used that setup at the customs house, and never went back since.

And looking where am at now 10 years on, am glad I took this wonderful hobbie. :D :heartpump:
 
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aye same here mate!
i can thank me bruv for getting me into it! hes 13yrs older than me so used to take me fishing down the tyne every weekend when i was a kid!! ive been fishing since i was 6yrs old and im 29 now! ive fished at other places in england and abroad but ive always and always will fish the tyne till i cant because it holds very happy memories for me!!
and this will also apply to those of you who fish the wear and tees because its were you feel comfortable is were you become relaxed and thats the whole point of fishing in my book!!:D:D:D:)
 
RL83 said:
oh you had a screamer:D: someone told me they were virtually birds nest proof?? wouldnt mind getting a hold of one now! there on ebay all the time but always get snapped up!:)
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if you afteer a seastreak there is a a second hand shop in s/shield has always got at least 1 in ,but mind you he always asks top dollar for them usually bout £19 bout £5 more than when they were nnew

anyway its second hand rose top of stanhope rd his phone number is
0191/ 4566503
 
my 1st gear was a s****y 12 ft storm rod and reel combo was only £40.00!!,still got the rod as thats what the daughter uses now when shes wi me,reel died many moons ago!!!!
 
seastreak

seastreak

RL83 said:
oh you had a screamer:D: someone told me they were virtually birds nest proof?? wouldnt mind getting a hold of one now! there on ebay all the time but always get snapped up!:)
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go too chester le street market on saturday andyou get one for a fiver
 
9ft Jarvis walker spinning rod can't remember reel make, Used rod for every type of sea fishing loved it pulled some good fish in on it anarl. Grandad got it for me from place in seaham. Legend.
 
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1st rod

my 1st rod was a greenhart rod and a scarborough reel it was bought from a hardware shop in elswick newcastle for £3 it came wih 30 yard hank of cutty hunk line my old man took me to the groyne s/s first cast i got a place that hooked me for life secind cast i lost my wieght at the time there was a ship ran aground on the small beach they where cutting it up so i climbed on board ( no health and safety in them days) t got some big nuts and bolts they did me for the rest of the day i think it was 1964 t was 14 at the time
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First rod and reel

First rod and reel

Well Hi lads i was just on my 16th birthday when i got my first rod and reel and up till then i used a handline and it seemed like ages before i got my first rod and i was over the moon. It was a sealey and a sea streak multiplier and now when you think back how times have changed dont you think so well anyway good luck to you all okay.:D:D:D
 
First rod and reel combo I can remember being my own, and not a lend from my Dad was a 12" Milbro Barebones and Mitchel 602AP with a Don's antilash fitted. The Barebones snapped first cast with only a 4oz weight on. It came from the Littlewoods catalogue (20 weeks at 30p) and was soon replaced without any hastle.
 
great to hear all this nostaligia!! i think i have started summit here!!:D:D
I still use my first proper beachcaster i ever got a shakespear europa 12footer its eyed for multi and spool so ive never had cause to change it! ive had it 15yrs and it cost me £30 then i think secondhand! its still a good rod for what i use it for! ive recently got a leeda 12ft olympic b/caster with an appollo 70 fixedspool reel that i swapped a carp rod for! iknow its not a conflex but it'll do me:D
 
An old cork handle river rod that I got off my next-door neighbour along with an old fixedspool reel had it for years aswell caught sum half decent fish on it aswell lol those were the days :)
 

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