The south's biggest angling show

Two weeks time, the biggest angling show in the south(The Big One) at Farnborough. I will be there spending my paltry old age pension     on tackle that i really do not need .Trouble is my mates badger me into buying the damned stuff ! I get- well we/i'm getting one of those rods or whatever and at those prices i really think you should get one too, i mean you can't leave it on the shelf/rack can you, not at those prices!!!!!!!! so i get one. Then when i get home i think to myself-what the b####y heck did i buy that for  
We make a full day of it, around 4 hours wandering and spending, have a pint at the show and pub lunch on the way home


Keith you should get down here and spend some of that surplus money of yours    

Bigger than ever and very very busy. Got some fly lines at a steal, a keepnet(only ever use one when on the severn trotting ) some Dave Harrell stick floats,a new net bag at a good price and some soft baits for drop shotting which i intend to try for perch when up in bewdley on the river.
Mate(Brian) spent around £200 on rods, reels and assorted bits and bobs.
Some really good buys in reels if happy enough with just one spool,not many with extra spools. Some good buys on rods, just needed to know what was what really.
Keith you should get down here next year and get that wallet out

you must have a hell of a pension mate to afford all that gear. if we meet up again this june i might ask brian if i can borrow one of his new reels lol. well done both.

keith wrote:

you must have a hell of a pension mate to afford all that gear. if we meet up again this june i might ask brian if i can borrow one of his new reels lol. well done both.

Well what i brought was minimal as my pension just won't stretch very far Got to wait nearly three weeks for my next pension day
Brian told me to kick him if he even looked at another FLY rod but said nothing about a rod to sling in his camper van and another for drop shotting .Couple of others with us also grabbed a new keepnet and net bag( Dragon Carp) along with a feeder rod etc and landing nets.
Not quite so many absolute bargains to be had and they really needed to be hunted down.Having said that there were complete outfits, ie carp, sea and coarse to be had at silly prices.

sounds like you had fun chris

keith wrote:

sounds like you had fun chris

Well yes. Went onto a nice little oldy worldy boozer that we use when at the show, been taken over since we were last there and it was £3.90 a pint of real ale-that was £15.60 a round!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
me poor ol wallet said Oi that urts
Ever had a green pint of beer?, we did. A stonehenge brew called a sign of spring

id want it gold coloured for 3.90 a bloody pint !

keith wrote:

id want it gold coloured for 3.90 a bloody pint !

Pub near to our daughters in Epsom do a lot of American craft beer, some of which is quite decent
AND that is anything from £4.00 to £4.30 a pint!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2.00 a pint in our club before 8pm everyday it's as rough as arsehols but we love it lol

keith wrote:

2.00 a pint in our club before 8pm everyday it's as rough as arsehols but we love it lol

Always was cheap up in the midlands compared to down here. Think the gap is probably not as wide these days however.
25 odd years ago when we first went up to Arley we managed to get into a working mens club at Highly, blimey we couldn't drink enough of the stuff it was that cheap I think 6 of us drank em dry

i know what you mean chris our club is a bit of an oasis amongst all the other boozers, well the ones that are left in this area.