Woolies still sold fishing tackle in 1982. Pretty sure most of it was re-branded Shakespeare stuff.
They did, got my first rod from Woolies around then. 10 feet float rod, black and white. If you took the but cap off, the blank was in a purple colour.
Also the great thing about Woolies, you could eat the pic and mix sweets when no one was looking.
Yes a fair bit like that John, think I remember it not tapering much and the eyes were proud not recessed, good 25 years since I last saw it, remember it not having much of a wiggle but it still caught pike, also not sure if it had 2 or 3 trebles
You can have that one if you pay the post, give it a swim.
Yes a fair bit like that John, think I remember it not tapering much and the eyes were proud not recessed, good 25 years since I last saw it, remember it not having much of a wiggle but it still caught pike, also not sure if it had 2 or 3 trebles
You can have that one if you pay the post, give it a swim.
John that would be very kind and I’ll take you up on that please, pm me your pay pal, I’m thinking about taking my son who’s 3 and catching the first pike he sees with the same lures that my dad used all those years ago, wouldn’t that be something! Thanks again John
Anyone still use vintage lures? I know they are valuable but still the feeling of catching on them must be quite fulfilling
Anything 30 years or more is considered vintage, so there is plenty to go at. There really is no need to be chucking any weird and strange contraptions
Talking of lures I still have a black Arbogast Jittabug that I was given on my 13th Birthday back in 1973.I dug it out a few years ago and tried it on the Trent for a bit of chub fishing but I soon lost my bottle and quickly put it back in the box.Its only about an inch long but it’s been with me for over 46 years now and would be gutted if I lost it.
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Trying to get Mr Milford to set one up at the LAS Lurefair!
We'd love it!
I would imagine 95% of those people attending on the day, would not know a Heddon from a Hedgehog? I'm told boy wonder the new 'BFS Queen' has designed a new BFS rig.
Anyone still use vintage lures? I know they are valuable but still the feeling of catching on them must be quite fulfilling
I still use my 1970's Cisco Kids, and they still catch as well as they have ever done, but only in stillwaters, but Ive never caught a fish on them in rivers?
If I could only choose one lure to use forever it would be Cisco Kid, Ive fished them for so long I can almost make them talk.
My first pike was caught on this (sorry can't find it - yet)!
'No Man Ever Fishes The Same River Twice, .... For It Is Not The Same River, .... And He Is Not The Same Man' Heraclitus of Ephesus
Anyone still use vintage lures? I know they are valuable but still the feeling of catching on them must be quite fulfilling
I still use my 1970's Cisco Kids, and they still catch as well as they have ever done, but only in stillwaters, but Ive never caught a fish on them in rivers?
If I could only choose one lure to use forever it would be Cisco Kid, Ive fished them for so long I can almost make them talk.
My first pike was caught on this (sorry can't find it - yet)!
I had the hardest take I've ever experienced on a 'Husky' Cisco Kid. The pike punctured it clean through - and was gone . . . . .
"He's some sort of lure savant. Or just has an unhealthy addiction to old lures. We are not quite sure . . . . . "
Anyone still use vintage lures? I know they are valuable but still the feeling of catching on them must be quite fulfilling
I still use my 1970's Cisco Kids, and they still catch as well as they have ever done, but only in stillwaters, but Ive never caught a fish on them in rivers?
If I could only choose one lure to use forever it would be Cisco Kid, Ive fished them for so long I can almost make them talk.
My first pike was caught on this (sorry can't find it - yet)!
I had the hardest take I've ever experienced on a 'Husky' Cisco Kid. The pike punctured it clean through - and was gone . . . . .
That must have been some hit John, the Husky is a seriously big lure especially at the time it was in production.
Teeth holes are the one problem with all the old Kid lures, pike teeth go through them, though with mine its been a slow wearing down process over 20+ fish or so. All my regulars have a good coating of araldite plus as much as I can get inside the hanger holes, the hardest part is drying them out inside before the araldite is melted on.
With river levels so high my final weeks are going to be spent swimming my Kids and a selection of other vintage lures in a place that doesn't (seem to) have any pike in it.
'No Man Ever Fishes The Same River Twice, .... For It Is Not The Same River, .... And He Is Not The Same Man' Heraclitus of Ephesus
Anyone still use vintage lures? I know they are valuable but still the feeling of catching on them must be quite fulfilling
I still use my 1970's Cisco Kids, and they still catch as well as they have ever done, but only in stillwaters, but Ive never caught a fish on them in rivers?
If I could only choose one lure to use forever it would be Cisco Kid, Ive fished them for so long I can almost make them talk.
My first pike was caught on this (sorry can't find it - yet)!
I had the hardest take I've ever experienced on a 'Husky' Cisco Kid. The pike punctured it clean through - and was gone . . . . .
That must have been some hit John, the Husky is a seriously big lure especially at the time it was in production.
Teeth holes are the one problem with all the old Kid lures, pike teeth go through them, though with mine its been a slow wearing down process over 20+ fish or so. All my regulars have a good coating of araldite plus as much as I can get inside the hanger holes, the hardest part is drying them out inside before the araldite is melted on.
With river levels so high my final weeks are going to be spent swimming my Kids and a selection of other vintage lures in a place that doesn't (seem to) have any pike in it.
The plastic Pikies from the 80s onwards were bad for puncturing too, so much so i wouldnt have one given now....rather make my own wood versions. Are they the floating Cisco Kids youre using Mike? I never owned any floaters apart from one giant version, but did ok on the 7" countdowns on the lochs in deeper water. The giant ended up stuck on the far bank of a Yorks river years ago but it did catch a few prior to that, nothing big though
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