Tackle
has never been so cheap
If you have not been fishing for very long and you go into a sizeable
fishing tackle shop you cannot help but be amazed at the vast array of
gadgets that are on sale now.
Mostly reasonable in price the gadgets that are supposed to help you to
fish effectively vary greatly in usefulness, and you can spend a fortune
if you cannot resist buying lots of ingenious bits and pieces.
However, some of the modern items of tackle really are well worth buying
and they are sometimes the cheapest tackle items too.
If I was asked to name the two most useful tackle items that have appeared
in the shops recently I would unhesitatingly chose ‘Slammo’
disgorgers in the coarse fishing sphere, and large arbour reels for fly
fishing.
Even with barbless hooks for coarse fishing it sometimes happens that
the hook is in an awkward place in the mouth of the fish and a disgorger
is needed.
Slammo disgorgers are foolproof and kinder to the fish and when slid down
the line near the hook they hardly ever fail to engage with the hook properly.
By the way, do please avoid touching a fish with dry hands.
For a great many years nearly all reels sold for fly fishing were of a
silly, inefficient design. They had the line wound onto very narrow spindles
which meant that a great deal of uneccessary backing line was needed to
fill the spool. Worse still these reels caused fly lines to twist and
tangle and winding in the line took ages. The early large arbour fly reels
were very expensive and sometimes of poor design.
Some still cost the earth, but there are lots of quite cheap large arbour
fly reels on sale now at very reasonable prices.
Sometimes this is due to the habit prevalent now of advertising goods
at discount prices, often at half price in fact.
If you are gullible enough to be taken in by such claims you do not deserve
sympathy, but it is certainly true that in terms of value for money decent
quality fishing tackle has never been so cheap.