In reply to Post #39
Correcting myself here, it was the B1's, just took a look at SAE site, B2s are red 👍
Correcting myself here, it was the B1's, just took a look at SAE site, B2s are red 👍
In reply to Post #46
TBF They have been going ages now. Don't know a lot about the Staffordshire Carp scene (Only fishing i've done in Stoke is on a Thursday Night in Valantinos) But he seemed to have a decent group of anglers on it back then. The Scientific baits fella was a bit of a loon who used to kick off with anyone and everyone. And Im Sure Mark would correct me if im wrong but he was one of the earliest to try and rip off the Specialized Hookbaits.
TBF They have been going ages now. Don't know a lot about the Staffordshire Carp scene (Only fishing i've done in Stoke is on a Thursday Night in Valantinos) But he seemed to have a decent group of anglers on it back then. The Scientific baits fella was a bit of a loon who used to kick off with anyone and everyone. And Im Sure Mark would correct me if im wrong but he was one of the earliest to try and rip off the Specialized Hookbaits.
In reply to Post #47
TBF They have been going ages now.
Do you mean the B2 by the 'tbf'? Re the B1, blimey, as per the thread, it's been around how long, 15 years (seems longer to me, where does the time go). I did enquire on the old NM site but never got round to using it.
(Only fishing i've done in Stoke is on a Thursday Night in Valantinos)
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TBF They have been going ages now.
Do you mean the B2 by the 'tbf'? Re the B1, blimey, as per the thread, it's been around how long, 15 years (seems longer to me, where does the time go). I did enquire on the old NM site but never got round to using it.
(Only fishing i've done in Stoke is on a Thursday Night in Valantinos)
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In reply to Post #48
Sorry, text messages off my lad are making me lazy. TBF = To be fair.
I reckon i started on Monkeys in about 2007 and those SAE Baits were a site sponsor then i think. Never got on them myself although I did switch from my Baitcraft Super K to the Impulse stuff for a while. Nowadays I just pub chuck S2's and hope for the best.
Monkeys was class, made some good friends on there. The Old School thread was about the best thread on any fishing forum bar none. As has been mentioned on here already you wouldn't ever get all that content together again, it would take decades to get that in book form and an awful lot of those blokes had kept those pictures private for years, decades even. That thread was a massive loss.
I reckon Didster, Bernie and Sandy took years off some of the mods life.
Sorry, text messages off my lad are making me lazy. TBF = To be fair.
I reckon i started on Monkeys in about 2007 and those SAE Baits were a site sponsor then i think. Never got on them myself although I did switch from my Baitcraft Super K to the Impulse stuff for a while. Nowadays I just pub chuck S2's and hope for the best.
Monkeys was class, made some good friends on there. The Old School thread was about the best thread on any fishing forum bar none. As has been mentioned on here already you wouldn't ever get all that content together again, it would take decades to get that in book form and an awful lot of those blokes had kept those pictures private for years, decades even. That thread was a massive loss.
I reckon Didster, Bernie and Sandy took years off some of the mods life.
👍 I thought my memory was going again there😂, 20 years is more like it for SAE, and maybe more as you say 👍
SAE Baits still going strong , well worth having a look at the website ( saebaitdevelopments.co.uk ) I have no commercial interest by the way , just an old user of Scotty's gear . If I remember correctly , he wrote a series of articles for NM charting how he started making bait , and how things developed - as a lot of his development work was on a Club water I was fishing , I found it very interesting indeed. How the "Skins" got their name was a good one .....
In reply to Post #51
He always came over as a decent bloke tbh. It was a shame (all be it an entertaining one) when the idiot from Scientific baits used to jump on every thread SAE started or commented on. I do know at least one of the Stoke Anglers lads went through the A Team at Astbury faster than the clap in Atomic Kitten with it.
His bait stuff was always a pretty interesting read tbh.
The fall of Monkeys was a real shame as the Old School thread was massive, which may have in part been some of the issue, it maybe became a little big to worth the hassle for Julian. But when a NW forum suddenly has the likes of Robin Dix putting up previously unseen Yateley photos as well as North West fellas putting their stories up that had been whispered rumours for decades before. I had sat with the now Late Peter Hanley shortly before the forum closed up and taped his story about his capture of She from the school pool and been given the rod he caught it on along with photos that he had never published anywhere. They were to go on there with his permission. It was absolute gold.
He always came over as a decent bloke tbh. It was a shame (all be it an entertaining one) when the idiot from Scientific baits used to jump on every thread SAE started or commented on. I do know at least one of the Stoke Anglers lads went through the A Team at Astbury faster than the clap in Atomic Kitten with it.
His bait stuff was always a pretty interesting read tbh.
The fall of Monkeys was a real shame as the Old School thread was massive, which may have in part been some of the issue, it maybe became a little big to worth the hassle for Julian. But when a NW forum suddenly has the likes of Robin Dix putting up previously unseen Yateley photos as well as North West fellas putting their stories up that had been whispered rumours for decades before. I had sat with the now Late Peter Hanley shortly before the forum closed up and taped his story about his capture of She from the school pool and been given the rod he caught it on along with photos that he had never published anywhere. They were to go on there with his permission. It was absolute gold.