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In reply to Post #66
I think the woolies reels were made by Shakespeare 
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In reply to Post #56
At that point he said it’s so simple to set up 😂.
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In reply to Post #66
I think I can remember the excitement of buying a Winfield Thames float with my pocket money, and catching perch on it.
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In reply to Post #66
Absolutely right. It almost made being dragged around the town centre by my parents on a Saturday morning bearable. Almost.
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In reply to Post #55
To an 8 year old, the Winfield tackle display in Woolworths was the equivalent of an early 90s Jonson Ross or Tackle Box catalogue.
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In reply to Post #63
apologies - fixed it now.
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In reply to Post #60
Funny you should say that. That's where Chris Manifold of Aqua products got the idea for his Pramhood shelters. From a BT phone engineers wet weather shelter. You know the red stripe ones you used to see over the manholes on the side of the road. Bit of trivia for you.
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In reply to Post #62
Links to nothing for me.
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In reply to Post #58
No innovation (surprise surprise)
It's a product stolen from the American hunting industry, they use them as hunting blinds over there, normally in Real Tree.
I've got pets that are more innovative than Hamidi.
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In reply to Post #53
Looks like something the gas man used to set up when doing his maintenance. 
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In reply to Post #58
I honestly think hamidi is having a breadown
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In reply to Post #56
Omc leading the way in innovation again 
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In reply to Post #56
🤣 I know your tempted :-p , glad it wasn't just me, I couldn't take it seriously, good idea though just not in practice by the looks of it, marks for trying tho! 
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In reply to Post #54
when he gets it out and start rolling round on the floor with it to zip it all together....who in the hell is going to do that
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In reply to Post #53
It looks awful and a lot of messing about. £180?
Just get a 60inc brolly. One movement it's up then peg it out.
What more do you need for a day..
Ali really is bringing out some mickey mouse horse 💩 💩 💩 💩 💩 💩
Rates along side NGT and if you're old enough Winfield.
Nice guy but he really is scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Looks like he thinks his name will sell anything.
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In reply to Post #53
So you haven't seen how versatile it is on the YouTube short.....I bet you feel like you've missed out  ....reminds me of a big kite.
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In reply to Post #52
Received an email from the Tackle Tavern about this today:
https://thetackletavern.co.uk/product/omc-the-noble-wind-shelter/
Aside from how it got it's name  I'm struggling to think of any situation where you'd actually use it?
Surely one of the many day shelters produced by other companys would be a better bet?
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NGT (Not Good Tackle) little boilie grinder. I was given one to try out. It took about 15 seconds to destroy it in normal use. The shop never ordered any of them in.
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In reply to Post #50
I have the Avid benchmark X bed chair had for 4 years. very heavy but very comfy
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In reply to Post #48
I've recently bought their lightweight bedchair, I hope you're wrong.
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In reply to Post #47
I have an avid duel layer brolly and hate it
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In reply to Post #47
I do think that they are probably the worst company out there. They charge a premium for their utterly rubbish products.
The bedchairs where the legs all snapped and the bivvies that didn't have enough material to actually put them up were decent as well
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Avid marker float-broke into two pieces on cast.
Avid solid bag stems-broke on the loop
Avid chair-ripped where wrapped around the frame
Avoid Avid now as they didn't care about any of them.
Agree about the Fox spomb utter junk
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In reply to Post #45
Poor Designed Equipment that I've seen:-
- Ridge Monkey Carbon throwing stick first time around - made a racket and the grip was awful and gave blisters if you for a prolonged period of time.
- Fox impact spod - when they first came out the pin holding the arms failed and snapped the door mechanism off.
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OMC run rig rubbers...no good with heavy leads as they pull over the sleeves and end up on your rigs... obviously not field tested properly...very poor... 
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In reply to Post #43
OMC CACK (Compressed Air Cast Kit)
Joking aside, I think some of their stuff looks good...and I actually like Ali, so I tend to keep out of the threads where 'opinions' are being voiced.
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In reply to Post #40
Oh ****! Now you’ve done it.
Give a couple of months and it will be re-marketed by Ali as the ‘Magic Tube’ 
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In reply to Post #40
That would be hilarious if the bail arm did close 🤣
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In reply to Post #5
Still use mine today. Brilliant bit of kit
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In reply to Post #30
I remember the air cannon effort, almost looked like a mortar from memory.
I have seen similar used for sea fishing, they freeze the bait/leader into a perfect cylinder (perfect as in bore for the pipe it gets shot out of)...trace attached to mainline, frozen cylinder loaded into barrel and air released.
In an ideal scenario the angler opens the bail arm before firing...
OK, get some popcorn out...I found the video and it shows roughly what I described/remembered. Enjoy...
"Send it!"
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In reply to Post #36
The readout should be in wraps......
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In reply to Post #32
I've got to disagree, I still use mine for picking up small bits from my tackle box that otherwise I'd be picking my finger for and getting frustrated as near every time it'd fall off
Never had the problem of dropping baits, and when using Monster Mussel in summer it went at least some way to minimising getting covered in it, but from that perspective like you I nearly always ended up handling them anyway....doh. They're also handy for chunky fingers and narrow pots. Iirc couldn't you tighten the grip by twisting the top....I'll check when I'm out tomorrow!
EDIT, no, I was imagining it, or it doesn't do that anymore!
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In reply to Post #32
Copy of a pickled onion grabber sold at hardware stores!
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In reply to Post #35
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.carpology.net/article/spot-on-fish/&ved=2ahUKEwjhnsnlts6IAxU-UUEAHTzxAHoQFnoECC4QAQ&usg=AOvVaw2vRluTL9g5H5KQOwqxGqBB
Surely the 'Spot on Fish', a snip at £400, has to win.... Even beating the Nash Runway.. This still has me in hysterics...
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In reply to Post #30
Deffo remember that, was a while ago as I think I was in 6th form😂
Remember standing outside Greenfields in Canterbury firing baits at the city wall across the dual carriageway. I bet a paintball gun would do the job, roll some dimples onto the bait, jobs a good’un.
Imagine the noise at some of the day ticket places in the morning when the bombardment starts…..
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In reply to Post #30
I remember it being demonstrated at a Carp show at the NEC in Birmingham in '90 or '91. The guy marketing it claimed you could go to your local fire station to get the compressed air canister re-filled for free. It relied on the boilies not being too firm - they needed to deform slightly so they could fill the barrel completely. He also showed that you couldn't fire marbles or ball-bearings with it for that reason. It worked but was a bit of a faff to use, accuracy appeared to be an issue, and the price put it out of reach of most anglers. Never heard any more of it after that ...
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But those guns did work, didn't they? I believe i once bought some 2nd hand gear from a guy who didn't like his neighbour, on the other side of the street with parking space and small park in between, and he showed me how he terrorized him with shooting boilies on his roof. And garden, and windows, and etc. Long time ago, vague memory:XD
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In reply to Post #1
Nash boilie grabber - a wired claw like affair designed for removing boilies from glug without getting glug on your pinkies . . . totally useless as baits always ended up from the floor before you got a chance to pierce them with a baiting needle; let alone lasso floss around them. . .which meant your fingers got covered anyway . . .
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In reply to Post #30
Yes there was a boilie gun I remember seeing the advert
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In reply to Post #21
All gone very quite on the Twig front. Maybe it weren't a seller? Or maybe it wasn't the so called death trap that everyone was banging on about before they even had a chance to see it in action... who knows?...
Another was I dreaming it moment.. But wasn't there a compressed air boilie gun out there at one time? Bit like them paint ball guns.. This one's for all you old stool heads. It was a while ago. 
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In reply to Post #27
Either that, or it's a Fox lead clip, something the fella was using for about 20 years, along with the rest of the Fox gear even whilst he was still with Korda.
One thing you learn when in the game, is that what is in print and what is reality are two different things...a bit like the Fox consultant who has been using Daiwa rods for decades then putting pics up of his shiny new Horizons
Back to the thread...
Nash are a common theme here, but when they bought out Taska they released some utter garbage. IE the double ended (behave) screws. Their stuff is distinctively average, and apart from the 'bushwacker' there isn't a single thing they have that you can say is a market leader. The BP reels used to change colour when exposed to too much sun, the 4 play pod fell apart too easily, the buttons on the original sirens were made for a 5 year old....the list goes on and on and on and on.
However, i'd sell my kids for a set of stainless Nevs.
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Korda tackle box all the rigs get pulled down when lid is shut due to the magnets messing with the hooks,when you loosen the box it’s a tangled mess
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In reply to Post #26
he's still using it on tiktok videos, he's released a few videos recently with the twig blurred out, not wanting to give the mk2 any bad press before it's release
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In reply to Post #18
I thought that thing had died a death. Not heard anything about it recently and never seen anyone using it.
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In reply to Post #20
This one made me laugh! 😂
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In reply to Post #23
I want one.. 🙂
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Don’t know why his came to me but Richworth did an ‘apron’ for photographing fish so as not to remove slime—— someone somewhere must have one?
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In reply to Post #21
PB boilie rasp!
What a load of sh*t!
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In reply to Post #18
They must have realised its a death rig at the moment then.
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In reply to Post #18
Doubling down on the madness then? Wow
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In reply to Post #17
apparently theres a mk2 twig coning out with the fins incased
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The magic twig springs to mind
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One more Cast Rig ready..... utterly pointless....
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Anything made by ND - New Direction.
Notably their cradle which doubled up as a set of scales
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In reply to Post #1
Preston Innovations hooklength box.
PI designed it with magnets (in the base and lid halves) strong enough that you can drop it onto hard ground from a great height and it won’t come open. Great, but….
The magnets are so strong that you need a firm grip and strong yank to open the lid.
And when you lower the lid to close it, once the magnets get in attraction range : Bang. And it’s very painful if your finger gets trapped.
Tried lowering the lid holding the snap catch (to keep fingers out of the way), but once the magnets get in range… the lid is pulled shut and you are left holding the now-detached catch. Yes the magnets are so strong they rip the lid and catch apart.
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In reply to Post #12
And a beach chair that cost two thirds more than a ……….. beach chair 😡
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In reply to Post #9
Carp fishing manufacturers are notorious for flogging us gear ..for problems we didn't no we had. Nash I think are one of the worse. As has already been mentioned the flower pot heater, tarpaulin run way and one other hat springs to mind the pillow back rest..
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I’m be more concerned with mud splash from the wheels than rain from above 
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In reply to Post #5
Yes made by Trakker I had one good idea but poorly designed and not strong enough they did supply a cover for the bed that was supposed to be waterproof but wasn't.
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There was a phase a few years ago regards wrapping up machines, one was a hand crank thing and the other some automatic bit of tech - I have never seen one in the flesh but assume as Deborah Meadan says - they solved a problem that didn’t need solving.
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In reply to Post #6
So I weren't dreaming g it then.. Did it ever work? Don't worry, I think I've answered that one..
Would love to see a picture again.
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In reply to Post #6
There was a version by carptech innovations (whom i worked for at the time) they were wheels that clamped onto your frame but the issue was if there was too much weight the clamps slipped and deposited the whole thing on the floor
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In reply to Post #5
Was made by Trakker,in its earlier times..
It meant if it rained your bedchair would get soaking wet ,unless you had a tarp or something handy
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Wasn't there a bedchair out there at some point that doubled as a barrow for transporting your kit. Or was I dreaming it?.. 
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Mini baiting needle ,from Gardner..the version with the barb on the point..its meant for small baits, corn,mini 10 mm boilies etc..
Except ,when you try to remove needle from bait,the barb splits the bait ...load of crimp ,that was...
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In reply to Post #2
Oh the path I bought but not for that reason.
Ex match angler and know the issues of shipping a pole back with mud in the joints.
So path out with bivvy pegs but left proud. Ship back two sections of ya bushwacker and lay on the path. No mud in the joints and they don't roll around.
I know BW poles are nothing compared to pole sections. But the hassle of freeing stuck joints because of mud n grit is still the same.
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Nash candle heater thing and the slip and slide path they did as well. Nash come up with so much crap
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OK I've seen a few in my time. But this is not for slating a manufacturer you don't like. It's purely for poor design and ill thought out design.
OK mine is the Nash powerbanx inflatable light.
So you now need a pump to take with you so no space saved.
Or blow it up by mouth so it fills with condensation. So with the light on or sun penetrative the clear side it will slime up.
Your thoughts on this and other items please.
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