Just picked up an immaculate Mitchell 330 plus case plus spare bail arm spring plus shims in a Charity shop today.

£4.00!!

well pleased!

Oh these "Colonials"!!! My definition of a "swim" is a place on a river which allows some sort of access through the vegetation either side. They are either natural openings or some where that has been developed over the years by usage or indeed careful pruning of the vegetation ...

totally agree Ted- some days I've fished all day in the pouring rain and not had a bite. I've had tangle after tangle and said to myself "why do I bother??" Next day its all forgotten and I'm eager to get bankside again. When i was a kid I'd get up before dawn, fish all day and return afte...

went quite well! Basically a fish a cast although very small (apart from the pike that took a perch as I was reeling in!!) Very quiet and only saw one other angler. Maybe I won't leave it another 54 years........

The 840 worked flawlessly!

Tomorrow 1 July 2021 I will be fishing a "swim" on the Bristol Avon (UK) upstream from Keynsham. I last fished this in June 1967 in the "Summer of Love" with a friend.\ I will be using an 840 although I still have the 300 I used then- the rod will be a Normark Avenger 2000 13 foo...