lovely fishing, think i will get mi dads old speedia out again now try it on my local river, i dont think i used it for over 10 yrs.but it is infectious when u had a couple of decent fish on it. im not so good with the casting though 😂
I have a local water that contains some big Perch. I plan to fish for them like you with a centrepin and a 12' Graham Phillips trotting rod. A great rod though very old and built on a century blank I think. I have just bought a new Trudex which I will use, the earlier models being like your rapidex. Unfortunately, for some reason, the new trudex don't have the drag adjustment. With you on the F1s. Pointless things imo! 🙂
Hi Mark, Really loved all your videos, they've kept me going through Covid and job loss. Would it be possible to do one that explains the numbering system of Mitchell 300 reel spools please? My little collection has numbers from 1 to 5 but got no idea what they refer too. Thank you and all the best.
My Mitchell spools have A, 1, 2 & 3, and I don't know either! I'll ask around. There quite a bit of variation in design with the many spools I have. The A one looks to be quite old.
@@MarkWintleFishing Thanks Mark. If the consensus is correct then presumably a no.1 spool should be fitted to a very early reel with no's 2 and 3 spools fitted to later reels. I know that the spools are interchangeable but are they really? I personally assumed that the numbers were either line capacity indicators or differing spool/clutch on/off mechanisms. Im going to look into it further. Thank you again and all best wishes to you.
The oldest spool that I have is different in build as it has a metal inner liner, and that's the A spool. The others may just have come from different production units as Mitchell ramped up production - the total number of 300 family (including 410, 440 etc.) reels produced is close to 10 million so many more spools.
The nice thing about the Rapidex is that, apart from being well-made, the micro-drag allows you to tailor the amount of drag to keep the spool under control, and decent examples are still reasonably priced; even a mint in box one is only around £100.
I love fishing with my pins more than a fixed spool reel. I fish similar to you using a 15ft rod similar style to a pole. Tight lines.
I have used longer rods with this style including a Daiwa 17 to 20ft model.
Just lovely Mark....memories
lovely fishing, think i will get mi dads old speedia out again now try it on my local river, i dont think i used it for over 10 yrs.but it is infectious when u had a couple of decent fish on it. im not so good with the casting though 😂
Definitely give it a go.
I have a local water that contains some big Perch. I plan to fish for them like you with a centrepin and a 12' Graham Phillips trotting rod. A great rod though very old and built on a century blank I think. I have just bought a new Trudex which I will use, the earlier models being like your rapidex. Unfortunately, for some reason, the new trudex don't have the drag adjustment. With you on the F1s. Pointless things imo! 🙂
Hi Mark, Really loved all your videos, they've kept me going through Covid and job loss. Would it be possible to do one that explains the numbering system of Mitchell 300 reel spools please? My little collection has numbers from 1 to 5 but got no idea what they refer too. Thank you and all the best.
My Mitchell spools have A, 1, 2 & 3, and I don't know either! I'll ask around. There quite a bit of variation in design with the many spools I have. The A one looks to be quite old.
The consensus is that it might refer to production lines...
@@MarkWintleFishing Thanks Mark. If the consensus is correct then presumably a no.1 spool should be fitted to a very early reel with no's 2 and 3 spools fitted to later reels. I know that the spools are interchangeable but are they really? I personally assumed that the numbers were either line capacity indicators or differing spool/clutch on/off mechanisms. Im going to look into it further. Thank you again and all best wishes to you.
The oldest spool that I have is different in build as it has a metal inner liner, and that's the A spool. The others may just have come from different production units as Mitchell ramped up production - the total number of 300 family (including 410, 440 etc.) reels produced is close to 10 million so many more spools.
Any cheap centrepin will do fine,you can pick up brand new ones for around £50 , angling direct
The nice thing about the Rapidex is that, apart from being well-made, the micro-drag allows you to tailor the amount of drag to keep the spool under control, and decent examples are still reasonably priced; even a mint in box one is only around £100.