Simple Match Fishing Forum

Colin runs and fishes the newark opens from june to october. The only reels ive seen him use are ABU 507s and thats on the feeder as well. To clip up he puts a rubber band on the spool. Bloody awful things if you ask me, lost countless fish on them in my early matchfishing days, confined them to an old cupboard in the garage many years ago and theyre still in there.
Colin still wins a few on his beloved newark dyke, but we`re always playing catchup to Mr Marshall from Quorn, who catches twenty pound of roach each and every week on the dyke, that is unless he`s on peg 1 at east stoke then its 50lb of barbel on white maggot and 4.4 bayer.

Did anyone ever use the drag on the 500 series ?? Or did we all remove that part. IIRC it was the last piece left in there.

crappity smack me, I still keep in contact with Colin.

Never recognized him though

Is It the weirfield at Holme Marsh.

Definitely a young Colin Walton my old Newark squad manager.It looks like the early pegs at Holme Marsh.
I can remember watching him on the feeder using an ABU 506.Although he took the river apart in the 80s on the feeder he was and still is a brilliant all round angler.

I still use a 506 on my rare trips to the rivers; ain't been on one this season though

I still use a 506 on my rare trips to the rivers; ain't been on one this season though

that's a shame bill :-/i love river fishing but again i've not been on many matches this season
although on Wednesday i did walk along the bottom of the brinks in the deeper pegs with a stick float rod but not many takers i did catch a roach from the bottom end off the peg
gently running the stick down and stopping it right at the bottom clunk it was about 10oz and not a mark on it i also tried a couple of spots with bread flake :-/nothing still it wasn't a day for just sitting there

Holme Marsh it is guys

This is the Shakey version i think.

Remember them Two Shakes - sure I had one but for the life of me can't remember what happend to it.............perhaps it went walk abouts with my Abu's


ps - good to hear from you

I guess that the old 507 was a bit warm this weekend! Well done Colin top bombing!


Upper Wtham Team Championships, River Witham, Foston to Dry Donnington, Lincolnshire, Sat. 96. Colin Walton (Newark Federation) 37-8-0, 26 dace and 12 chub, stick float and caster, peg A3; Phil Lywood (Grantham) 34-14-0; Paul Kimberley (Team Zimba) 24-4-0; Will Sweeney (Argonauts) 19-8-0; Joe Cox (Collingham) 13-6-0; Tony Nally (Dynamite Matchman Supplies) 12-4-0.

the shakespeare wasn't a bad reel, just not built to last like the 507.

Just had a thought - pretty sure it came in its own black 'padded' zip round reel case embossed with 'Shakie' - and yep it went in the middle of one night