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Yes mate, that's one that you could use from the boat - here's a pic of my trusty old Coburn reel (had it about 30 years & still spins sweetly) attached to my old Bill Temple rod, the kind you can fish with from the shore:
Yes mate, that's one that you could use from the boat - here's a pic of my trusty old Coburn reel (had it about 30 years & still spins sweetly) attached to my old Bill Temple rod, the kind you can fish with from the shore:
Cheers, Gary
I had the exact same set-up until about 18months ago, gave it to Frankie Oldam from Newbiggin sometimes wish i hadn't, he's a good mate though and learn't a lot from him just hope he's still got it.
Abu Atlantic rod...would this not be a 464,because in that stable at the time were the two models.
484 Atlantic zoom this was of a fixed winch fitting (up the rod) and cork handle,wire formed rings and a screw type locking furel to join tip to but.A brown colour blank with a fine tip..11.1/2ft length(I think).
The other model was the 464 same length but had coasters reel fitting and srinktube for the butt.
Both rods were before there time,and at one time held the total distance record cast...just over 200yds...and the caster was...not100% but I think it was our own Terry Carrol of the Zziplex stable, someone might correct me on this.
The sea streak fondly know as the sea screech because of the noise it made when casting..but a good reel at the time,the braking system was a finned disc that controlled the spool speed.A little slow on retrieve but ok,red plastic side covers and a ratchet for them big coddys.
I still have a 484 and 464 and when the mood takes I use them instead of my more modern rods. They are still great rods just a bit heavier than modern rods. I bought them late 70's early 80's I think, along with abu 7000 and 6500 mults. I still use the reels now had them serviced at Frasers last year and they are still great reels to use. More importantly they still catch fish albeit small ones.
Abu Atlantic rod...would this not be a 464,because in that stable at the time were the two models.
484 Atlantic zoom this was of a fixed winch fitting (up the rod) and cork handle,wire formed rings and a screw type locking furel to join tip to but.A brown colour blank with a fine tip..11.1/2ft length(I think).
The other model was the 464 same length but had coasters reel fitting and srinktube for the butt.
Both rods were before there time,and at one time held the total distance record cast...just over 200yds...and the caster was...not100% but I think it was our own Terry Carrol of the Zziplex stable, someone might correct me on this.
I seem to recall they were boat reels, not really suitable for casting from the shore (which I use them for). Loads around, often home-made & they do turn up from time to time, but most are the wooden variety which are suited to boat fishing. You'd need to find an old Pritchard or something similar made from Tufnol & light enough to cast with if you're fishing from the shore.
Cheers, Gary
my dad had a couple,think he still has one,he just gave one away a few months ago,i remember when i was a youngen,about 30ish years ago i used to go to cambois pier with him,he used to cast with it in a strange way,he would face the river and cast over his shoulder into the sea with him being lefthanded,he used to get some distance on it also,finger on the side as the magnet braking system also
A top of the range centrepin beach reel are a work of art and a quality piece of shore fishing history.
I cant remember the English manufacturers( could have been Alcock) but I bought one in the late 80s second hand this reel was of toufnal side plates with brass centre housing adjustable ball bearings and a oil bath.
Quite a large dia drum with a centre of possibly 9" so a good speed of retrieve
The cast was the side cast and I believe inherited from the Norfolk farmers
forking hay into a barn.
And now called the modern back cast.
I sold the reel on but I wish I still had it......Total quality English engineering at its best.
my dad had a couple,think he still has one,he just gave one away a few months ago,i remember when i was a youngen,about 30ish years ago i used to go to cambois pier with him,he used to cast with it in a strange way,he would face the river and cast over his shoulder into the sea with him being lefthanded,he used to get some distance on it also,finger on the side as the magnet braking system also
The 'Pritchards', Tufnel reel, tho. I thought the big one was 9"dia.?, was called the 'Oil Bath'. My brother has one, which he won for heaviest cod in the Scarboro. festival, All England comp.
It was a superb bit of kit, a racing version of the wooden variety, and I used to use it, when he wasn't looking, on the really rough ground, where you could winch a fish off the bottom like nothing else. They were very popular when I was kid, and some people could cast them a reasonable distance, it was like a forerunner of pendulem, where you learnt to give a scarboro. caster plenty of room, but they never could match a multiplier, the Abu 9000c killed a lot of their following off.
They would still be the best thing for fishing that rocky hole a short lob away !
Don't know if they were made by Pritchards, or made for them, but theirs were the best, and Edwin was a great bloke who I remember very well.
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