Best Centrepin?
with all of you 'pin users out there, there must be some opinion of which is an ideal pin for Barbel and Chub fishing? Is it going to be an established make or one of the newer boys (Okuma) on the...
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Doubt it Bob, we're about on the same latitude Well they don't guard anything, unless it's against a birds nest, and that's not a given solution. They don't guide anything if you ain't got them...
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Okuma Sheffield......Does exactly what it says on the tin. A steal at £120 considering what you get. Save paying £300+ for the the purists..
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As i said earlier ,theres two types of cage on centrepins .ones that line passes through it (giving a limited range of movement) to prevent it flipping over the backplate in wind or whilst casting ,...
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God...I'm confused...and I 'know' what you're all talking about! Guards or Guides...they both do the same bloody thing - prevent the line going behind the back-plate. They have no other use - and I...
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It sure is. I checked Ebay just now, to see just what that (1995) Witcher "Avon Elite" Aerial sold for - £725. Then I saw a simply outstanding (and I have seen a few), early, original Allcock Aerial...
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Well that's another one disappeared into a collectors case, only to be brought out and caressed lovingly behind closed doors late at night. Undoubtedly the seller fell for the old patter from the...
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"I have a Dream, Brothers and Sisters of the Angle (I have long had this Dream); that British Anglers have a National Angling Museum (All Angling Disciplines) that exists to promote Angling and to...
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Chaps, I apologise in advance but here I go with what's probably a really silly question (but I genuinly don't know the answer): - I've always fished with fixed spool reals (incl baitrunners) for...
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I,ve never used one either i think its got something to do with being at one with nature or summat like that.
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Rich and and famous, eh? Well, as a Poor and Infamous long-time centrepin fisher, I will offer a very good reason for why I always will use a centrepin for barbel (when a centrepin is an appropriate...
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Hi Paul how is it that they stop you from loosing fish ? do i have my clutch set to tight on my fix-spool reels ? I only lost 2 fish last season.
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Paul, thanks for that - but as Ian says above, I don't tend to lose fish on th reels that I use or have used. Are pins just a preference? Or, do they somehow do a better job, if so how? Cheers Mark
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It's whatever does it for you and that also does the particular job best. This from a someone, fellas, who will be buying a 2500 size, little Shimano fixed-spool with a "Fightin' Drag" for certain...
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Mark,watching an angler using a centrepin with experience and catching decent size fish with one ( not neccesarily barbel) and you will soon realise the difference in the use of pins vs fixed spools,...
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Whilst waggler fishing the margins in a local pond for carp or 'anything big', is was asked why I was using a pin, instead of a lead and fixed spool reel. The answer is simple, you have more control...
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