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here's a selection of the tackle i use to make rigs up on the canal i've only used a couple of hook sizes as examples but feel free to add sizes .which of the items do you use or if they are not on the picture please add i've tryed to put as much as i have on i know the lines are a good starting point floats are another shots or stotts do you styles or even half styles

I thought this lot was an E Bay auction.

Anybody better 4p?

these are a £1

What would I do with them.........?


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The only thing I can think of is to go moon probing with them

bill do you remember these floats mate

i think its a image float i had quite a few but i'm down to a couple so if anyone has any they don't want or know of a shop with some old stock in I'd like to know or even a similar float

Hiya Joffie - good topic, hope it provokes some interesting views.

Recognise a fair bit of those bits and pieces 

i know the lines are a good starting point 

I gave the line in the top photo a 'bash' but ended up giving it to 'a needy cause'. I reverted back to Silstar/WB Clarke in an 0.06 and 0.08 which had always served me well - dunno why I wasted quite a few quid buying a range, spose I got caught up in a bit of 'hype'  - I feel the Silstar/WBC are both smaller in diameter and much more limp and 'softer' for cut work than the P R line........(and in other breaking strains for other applications for that matter) ......just my thoughts for what they are worth   

What is a canal?

What is a canal?

a thing that are starting to be used again for what the were built for many moons ago, shipping cargos from A to B rather than clogging roads up

What is a canal?

a thing that are starting to be used again for what the were built for many moons ago,  shipping cargos from A to B rather than clogging roads up 

Thanks fella
But where does the fishing come in?

bill do you remember these floats mate

Yes, still got some or very similar.

Line, same as TK, I have used Silstar/WB Clarke for donkeys of years. It's reliable and cheap enough to use straight through without crappity smack about with a hook length. Nearly all our lads crappity smack swear by it
As an extra loads loads of anglers use the heavier grades for hook bottoms in Ireland.

I like the look of those Fox hooks me duck

This bit will please End Peg.........There was a shop add in last months Match Fishing for Silstar 0.065, £10 for three spools. Please don't all send for it at once cuz I ain't sent for any yet.

I LIKE THE 0.7 POWER LINE for my canal rigs with the middy as hook lengths i do use silstar its just the tackle shop had run out the other week your right about silstar being suppl with my hands i tend to have a lot of breaks when i tie them

What is a canal?

A canal is meant for fishing

A commercial is meant for TV

Football is meant for Stoke City

i do like these hooks

Never tried the gamma green Joffie - what they like for hooking joker

brilliant mate they really are i like the mp1s they don't burst the joker and if anything they hold perch better than the mp1s they are a bit springy but brilliant for small fish

the sensas 3530s are a strong hook as well but are barbed i see one or two using red hooks withB/J not too sure about that one

But where does the fishing come in

when you go to a pool and pay a nice man to fish there and catch lots of his fish that the nice man keeps in his pool








Joff them green sensa loop tiers are absolutely brilliant

have you ever used one of these to tie your hooks smart piece of kit