Old imagery

[davelumb]

A couple more.

Leonard_shop.jpg


This is apparently from the 1880s. The Leonard Rod Shop, pretty much a Yiddish preserve.


Thomas Rod Co..jpg

The F.E. Thomas Rod Company from around 1935.

I've ordered this for a read.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Splitting-Cane ... 0811700089

I do like a bit of bamboo.

Wasn't Ed Engle a mate of JG's?

He still is and AK Best though AK is 87 now.

More boring stuff below, as well as AK you can watch John and Ed.

https://arc.lib.montana.edu/angling-ora ... ry/item/12

I thought one of them had snuffed it. Must have been someone else!

[Monts]

A couple more.

Leonard_shop.jpg


This is apparently from the 1880s. The Leonard Rod Shop, pretty much a Yiddish preserve.


Thomas Rod Co..jpg

The F.E. Thomas Rod Company from around 1935.

I've ordered this for a read.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Splitting-Cane ... 0811700089

I do like a bit of bamboo.

Wasn't Ed Engle a mate of JG's?

He still is and AK Best though AK is 87 now.

More boring stuff below, as well as AK you can watch John and Ed.

https://arc.lib.montana.edu/angling-ora ... ry/item/12

I thought one of them had snuffed it. Must have been someone else!

A few have maybe Koke Winter?

His mate Mike Clark who is in most of the books is still at it.

https://www.southcreekltd.com/

The price of those rods in the states is very expensive, especially the rods made by Per Brandin But as Gierach mentions in "Fools Paradise" back in 2008 it's got really crazy the prices and most are bought to hang on the walls and not to be used.

I just like looking and reading about old stuff.

[davelumb]

A couple more.

Leonard_shop.jpg


This is apparently from the 1880s. The Leonard Rod Shop, pretty much a Yiddish preserve.


Thomas Rod Co..jpg

The F.E. Thomas Rod Company from around 1935.

I've ordered this for a read.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Splitting-Cane ... 0811700089

I do like a bit of bamboo.

Wasn't Ed Engle a mate of JG's?

It was Koke I was thinking of.


He still is and AK Best though AK is 87 now.

More boring stuff below, as well as AK you can watch John and Ed.

https://arc.lib.montana.edu/angling-ora ... ry/item/12

I thought one of them had snuffed it. Must have been someone else!

A few have maybe Koke Winter?

His mate Mike Clark who is in most of the books is still at it.

https://www.southcreekltd.com/

The price of those rods in the states is very expensive, especially the rods made by Per Brandin But as Gierach mentions in "Fools Paradise" back in 2008 it's got really crazy the prices and most are bought to hang on the walls and not to be used.

I just like looking and reading about old stuff.

Old stuff kinda interests me. But not so much old American fly fishing stuff, and certainly not old panda fodder of any description!!!

[Monts]

A couple more.

Leonard_shop.jpg


This is apparently from the 1880s. The Leonard Rod Shop, pretty much a Yiddish preserve.


Thomas Rod Co..jpg

The F.E. Thomas Rod Company from around 1935.

I've ordered this for a read.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Splitting-Cane ... 0811700089

I do like a bit of bamboo.

Wasn't Ed Engle a mate of JG's?

It was Koke I was thinking of.

Old stuff kinda interests me. But not so much old American fly fishing stuff, and certainly not old panda fodder of any description!!!

He still is and AK Best though AK is 87 now.

More boring stuff below, as well as AK you can watch John and Ed.

https://arc.lib.montana.edu/angling-ora ... ry/item/12

I thought one of them had snuffed it. Must have been someone else!

A few have maybe Koke Winter?

His mate Mike Clark who is in most of the books is still at it.

https://www.southcreekltd.com/

The price of those rods in the states is very expensive, especially the rods made by Per Brandin But as Gierach mentions in "Fools Paradise" back in 2008 it's got really crazy the prices and most are bought to hang on the walls and not to be used.

I just like looking and reading about old stuff.

That is why this forum is so good, we all have our little niches withing angling.

[John Milford]

Old stuff kinda interests me. But not so much old American fly fishing stuff, and certainly not old panda fodder of any description!!!

Ha ha ha! 'panda fodder'!! How did I miss that?

Anyway, the real reason for this post:

'Peaky Pikers'

Judging by the Art Nouveau frame it's in (amongst other things!) turn of the last century.

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[davelumb]

Old stuff kinda interests me. But not so much old American fly fishing stuff, and certainly not old panda fodder of any description!!!

Ha ha ha! 'panda fodder'!! How did I miss that?

Anyway, the real reason for this post:

'Peaky Pikers'

Judging by the Art Nouveau frame (amongst other things!) turn of the last century.


Screenshot_20201013-222546.png

I can't claim credit for inventing that panda phrase.

Cracking pic. Always interest me to see the way reels were positioned low on the rods, rather like the position Spey casters use today.

[John Milford]

Old stuff kinda interests me. But not so much old American fly fishing stuff, and certainly not old panda fodder of any description!!!

Ha ha ha! 'panda fodder'!! How did I miss that?

Anyway, the real reason for this post:

'Peaky Pikers'

Judging by the Art Nouveau frame (amongst other things!) turn of the last century.


Screenshot_20201013-222546.png

I can't claim credit for inventing that panda phrase.

Cracking pic. Always interest me to see the way reels were positioned low on the rods, rather like the position Spey casters use today.

The rod & reel is very similar to the iconic picture of Alfred Jardine. Most copies of that picture have his float retouched out, but this one from one of my Victorian books includes it.

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[davelumb]

[Mattjb]

Old stuff kinda interests me. But not so much old American fly fishing stuff, and certainly not old panda fodder of any description!!!

Ha ha ha! 'panda fodder'!! How did I miss that?

Anyway, the real reason for this post:

'Peaky Pikers'

Judging by the Art Nouveau frame it's in (amongst other things!) turn of the last century.


Screenshot_20201013-222546.png

Imagine turning up at chew and standing in the queue dressed in that clobber!

[Mattjb]

Old stuff kinda interests me. But not so much old American fly fishing stuff, and certainly not old panda fodder of any description!!!

Ha ha ha! 'panda fodder'!! How did I miss that?

Anyway, the real reason for this post:

'Peaky Pikers'

Judging by the Art Nouveau frame it's in (amongst other things!) turn of the last century.


Screenshot_20201013-222546.png

Imagine turning up at chew and standing in the queue dressed in that clobber!

[Mattjb]

Oops double post!

[John Milford]

Old stuff kinda interests me. But not so much old American fly fishing stuff, and certainly not old panda fodder of any description!!!

Ha ha ha! 'panda fodder'!! How did I miss that?

Anyway, the real reason for this post:

'Peaky Pikers'

Judging by the Art Nouveau frame it's in (amongst other things!) turn of the last century.


Screenshot_20201013-222546.png

Imagine turning up at chew and standing in the queue dressed in that clobber!

If I ever fish Chew, I'd turn up in exactly that clobber! (Although I'd wear my Homberg, just like Jardine's, rather than a cap. ).

[davelumb]

Old stuff kinda interests me. But not so much old American fly fishing stuff, and certainly not old panda fodder of any description!!!

Ha ha ha! 'panda fodder'!! How did I miss that?

Anyway, the real reason for this post:

'Peaky Pikers'

Judging by the Art Nouveau frame it's in (amongst other things!) turn of the last century.


Screenshot_20201013-222546.png

Imagine turning up at chew and standing in the queue dressed in that clobber!

If I ever fish Chew, I'd turn up in exactly that clobber! (Although I'd wear my Homberg, just like Jardine's, rather than a cap. ).

Time to start a crowdfunder to buy John a Chew ticket!

[Mattjb]

Old stuff kinda interests me. But not so much old American fly fishing stuff, and certainly not old panda fodder of any description!!!

Ha ha ha! 'panda fodder'!! How did I miss that?

Anyway, the real reason for this post:

'Peaky Pikers'

Judging by the Art Nouveau frame it's in (amongst other things!) turn of the last century.


Screenshot_20201013-222546.png

Imagine turning up at chew and standing in the queue dressed in that clobber!

If I ever fish Chew, I'd turn up in exactly that clobber! (Although I'd wear my Homberg, just like Jardine's, rather than a cap. ).

Now that would be worth seeing! What 'panda fodder' as mr lumb calls it and reel would you take? A gaff would be out of the question though!

[Mattjb]

Old stuff kinda interests me. But not so much old American fly fishing stuff, and certainly not old panda fodder of any description!!!

Ha ha ha! 'panda fodder'!! How did I miss that?

Anyway, the real reason for this post:

'Peaky Pikers'

Judging by the Art Nouveau frame it's in (amongst other things!) turn of the last century.


Screenshot_20201013-222546.png

Imagine turning up at chew and standing in the queue dressed in that clobber!

If I ever fish Chew, I'd turn up in exactly that clobber! (Although I'd wear my Homberg, just like Jardine's, rather than a cap. ).

Every gentleman piker needs a yokel to do all the hard work like lifting anchors and unhooking so if you ever go for it and have got some spare attire and tackle count me in! Living in Bristol I've even got the correct yokel accent!

[John Milford]

(I've got a fez, like Jardines's pal Henry Leonidas Rolfe, to wear in the pub afterwards! ).

[Mattjb]

It would make a good catch cult article,if you did it. Gentleman pikers v Chew valley.

[Cod]

Old stuff kinda interests me. But not so much old American fly fishing stuff, and certainly not old panda fodder of any description!!!

Ha ha ha! 'panda fodder'!! How did I miss that?

Anyway, the real reason for this post:

'Peaky Pikers'

Judging by the Art Nouveau frame it's in (amongst other things!) turn of the last century.


Screenshot_20201013-222546.png

Imagine turning up at chew and standing in the queue dressed in that clobber!

If I ever fish Chew, I'd turn up in exactly that clobber! (Although I'd wear my Homberg, just like Jardine's, rather than a cap. ).

Now that would be worth seeing! What 'panda fodder' as mr lumb calls it and reel would you take? A gaff would be out of the question though!

Yes a gaff would be out of the question with the size of those kippers.

Best to take a pick instead face.

[colinb]

The embryonic Dartford-based PAC committee approached Jim Gibbinson as a potential President, but he was not up for it. He was very courteous about it and extremely flattered to be asked, but he did not really consider himself a 'Pike Angler' - he was obviously no slouch at it though! A tremendous all-rounder.

(Luckily for us, John Roberts accepted soon afterwards and was a brilliant and enthusiastic President. Really miss old JR ).

Top man was John, the only guy I've slept with that didn't snore!
Like you say John he is sorely missed.

[colinb]

A young whippa snapper from probably the late 70s or early 80s.
Home made net for pretty big pike.

[colinb]

Anyone who fished the fens around Welney would have stumbled acroos this gentleman.

Denis Booth of Welney

[John Milford]

A young whippa snapper from probably the late 70s or early 80s.
Home made net for pretty big pike.

Early 90s Colin - I was like Peter Pan in those days! (More like Captain Hook these days! ).

All that's going to do is fuel the rumours that I'm only 4' 3"!

[John Milford]

From the Leicester Evening Mail, 26th August 1939.

(I'm guessing the pike were all destined for the table, given the date. ).

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[lochhopper]

From the Leicester Evening Mail, 26th August 1939.

(I'm guessing the pike were all destined for the table, given the date. ).


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> given the date.

I guess too, given that date, that they would soon have been seeing, or at least hearing, a lot more aeroplanes. [See last line of report.]

[Gaz Jane]

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Just come across this on FB

[Monts]

9C8C847F-19F5-44CA-BB71-2B4849D2943A.jpegJust come across this on FB

I wonder if that's the Royalty?

[John Milford]

Great picture Gaz!

Well over a century ago, by the look of it. Were there any details with it?

(I've got one of those old zinc plated oval livebait kettles. ).

[davelumb]

Looks like the canal outside Wigan to me. Round about 1976 judging by the clothes and tackle.

[Monts]

Looks like the canal outside Wigan to me. Round about 1976 judging by the clothes and tackle.

Can't see any pies so maybe not.

[davelumb]

Looks like the canal outside Wigan to me. Round about 1976 judging by the clothes and tackle.

Can't see any pies so maybe not.

Where do you think the pike are headed?