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Allan Liddle

Re: General Knowledge - Fly Fishing
« Reply #825 on: 28/03/2021 at 09:14 »
Yup close enough Fred although it's actually the Cassley system that start about only 2 miles from the Atlantic.
Over to you  :z18

Mike Barrio

Re: General Knowledge - Fly Fishing
« Reply #826 on: 04/04/2021 at 01:13 »
Here's one for you folks that have been long term followers of the website and forum  :z16

Where was the original Fishing The Fly website hosted before we got the 'co.uk' address  :?
Clue:   www............................../fishingthefly

And in what year did the original website go live  :?

Mike Barrio

Re: General Knowledge - Fly Fishing
« Reply #827 on: 04/04/2021 at 12:59 »
I doubt that even Hamish or Sandy will remember the answer to this one   :z13

A wee screenshot from the early days  :z12



Mike Barrio

Re: General Knowledge - Fly Fishing
« Reply #828 on: 04/04/2021 at 16:22 »
Clue: We started this current forum in 2005, but we had two before that, a Proboards forum and an EZboard forum  :z12

Before we had a forum, the website just had a 'Guestbook' ..... remember them?   :z4

And I can remember staying up all night to see if we lost everything to the Milenium Bug  :X1

Mike Barrio

Re: General Knowledge - Fly Fishing
« Reply #829 on: 11/04/2021 at 11:29 »
OK, I think this one has everybody stumped, I guess I'm the only one that remembers this stuff  :z4

Let's just say the mid 90s  and the address was 'www madasafish com/fishingthefly'  :cool:

Mike Barrio

Re: General Knowledge - Fly Fishing
« Reply #830 on: 11/04/2021 at 14:22 »
Who made these reels  :?


Allan Liddle

Re: General Knowledge - Fly Fishing
« Reply #831 on: 15/04/2021 at 08:26 »
Youngs?

Steven Kidd

Re: General Knowledge - Fly Fishing
« Reply #832 on: 15/04/2021 at 11:06 »
Allcocks?

Mike Barrio

Re: General Knowledge - Fly Fishing
« Reply #833 on: 15/04/2021 at 11:26 »
Good guesses Allan and Steven, you are in the right area ....... try again  :wink

Hamish Young

Re: General Knowledge - Fly Fishing
« Reply #834 on: 15/04/2021 at 22:49 »
Chris Lythe  :? He makes centre pins with a similar 'spindle'.

Mike Barrio

Re: General Knowledge - Fly Fishing
« Reply #835 on: 16/04/2021 at 09:22 »
Another good guess Hamish, but no, this one is made by somebody else.

Terry Coging

Re: General Knowledge - Fly Fishing
« Reply #836 on: 16/04/2021 at 20:21 »
Beautifully tooled reel, whoever made it. Certainly not a cheap design. Probably German or American?

Mike Barrio

Re: General Knowledge - Fly Fishing
« Reply #837 on: 16/04/2021 at 22:46 »
These were/are made by a UK company.

This company also repairs and services most type of fishing reels, incuding J W Young and Allcocks.

'Braveheart' should be a reasonably good clue :wink

Mike Barrio

Re: General Knowledge - Fly Fishing
« Reply #838 on: 17/04/2021 at 00:49 »
Last clue:
Two reel models, pretty much the same basic design, one associated with 'Braveheart', the other with the song 'See my baby jive'  :z13

If nobody gets the answer from that, it's simply because you've never come across these reels.

They are actually much rarer now than I thought  :shock but are, I believe, still available made to order.

So probably not a good 'General Knowledge' question ...... sorry!  :z4

Fred Hay

Re: General Knowledge - Fly Fishing
« Reply #839 on: 17/04/2021 at 06:36 »
Could I suggest Diawa as the manufacturer

 




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