Tue Mar 16, 2010 7:17 pm
Tue Mar 16, 2010 7:22 pm
rustyhookthomas wrote:gfkelly1969 wrote:Rampent Wreckfish wrote:This gear is absolute muck and should never be reccommended to anyone.
There is a difference between cheap and value for money and this stuff is less than cheap.
I think even to even put a link to it on this forum degrades and cheapens SAI as a serious angling site![]()
It sadens me to think that these twigs could be recommended to new anglers, it would put them off angling for life
i don't think using rods or gear from lidl or any other cheap gear degrades or cheapens SAI one bit,i am sure most lads on the site started off with cheap rods and reels and a lot of them are still using them,the first rod and reel i bought for sea angling cost me 40 euro and that was 5 years ago and i am still using the reel made by inter sport to this day and never had any problem with it,i never washed it after a session or never gave it a drop of oil and it still going strong even pulled huss over 10 lbs with it
one good thing about the cheap gear is that it great for starting kids or even adults into fishing,where i work we often get tourist that would like to try the sea fishing and i give them the cheap rods and tell them a mark and let them off and i wont worry if they damage the rods,would be a different story if i gave them the century rods and they were damaged![]()
i also write down this web site for them and tell them they can get all the information about fishing they need here
SAI is a serious angling site but it also has to encourage new anglers to the site,whether they use a €15.99 lidl rod or a €400 Zziplex , i started as a new angler on the site in 2008 and have gained a lot of great information from it
who knows maybe a future world champion from SAI will have started off fishing with a lidl rod from the link above
here,here, i second that.
Tue Mar 16, 2010 7:41 pm
Tue Mar 16, 2010 9:14 pm
Sat Mar 20, 2010 1:15 am
Sun Mar 21, 2010 10:09 pm
ronnie wrote:i dont see the point in buying new stuff that is crap. when you could get good second hand gear for the same price
Sun Mar 21, 2010 10:26 pm
Mon Mar 22, 2010 11:46 am
Mon Mar 22, 2010 3:07 pm
Mon Mar 22, 2010 3:38 pm
Mon Mar 22, 2010 5:27 pm
RockHunter wrote:The rods may not be up to much but there are some good bargins with the rest of the tackle.
I picked up a bunch of stuff there this morning:
50 starlights for €3.99 - you cant beat that?
Box of various hook for €8.99- their hooks arn't bad - better than a lot of other brands (I still remember loosing a monster Bass last year a few yards from the shore because a hook broke - from an online tackle dealer)
Box of assorted weights for €8.99
Box of soft plastic shads fior €9.99
Box of various soft plastic lures with lead heads for €9.99
Box of assorted lures for €9.99 - maybe not the greatest lures but fine for fishing for pollock in snaggy ground where you dont want to loose a high tech €25 Japanese lure.
Mon Mar 22, 2010 6:14 pm
Tue Mar 23, 2010 12:32 am
Tue Mar 23, 2010 5:35 pm
Tue Mar 23, 2010 6:36 pm
Tue Mar 23, 2010 8:33 pm
Thu Mar 25, 2010 11:10 pm
Thu Mar 25, 2010 11:31 pm
Fri Mar 26, 2010 12:15 am
Sun May 16, 2010 6:49 pm
gfkelly1969 wrote:Rampent Wreckfish wrote:This gear is absolute muck and should never be reccommended to anyone.
There is a difference between cheap and value for money and this stuff is less than cheap.
I think even to even put a link to it on this forum degrades and cheapens SAI as a serious angling site![]()
It sadens me to think that these twigs could be recommended to new anglers, it would put them off angling for life
i don't think using rods or gear from lidl or any other cheap gear degrades or cheapens SAI one bit,i am sure most lads on the site started off with cheap rods and reels and a lot of them are still using them,the first rod and reel i bought for sea angling cost me 40 euro and that was 5 years ago and i am still using the reel made by inter sport to this day and never had any problem with it,i never washed it after a session or never gave it a drop of oil and it still going strong even pulled huss over 10 lbs with it
one good thing about the cheap gear is that it great for starting kids or even adults into fishing,where i work we often get tourist that would like to try the sea fishing and i give them the cheap rods and tell them a mark and let them off and i wont worry if they damage the rods,would be a different story if i gave them the century rods and they were damaged![]()
i also write down this web site for them and tell them they can get all the information about fishing they need here
SAI is a serious angling site but it also has to encourage new anglers to the site,whether they use a €15.99 lidl rod or a €400 Zziplex , i started as a new angler on the site in 2008 and have gained a lot of great information from it
who knows maybe a future world champion from SAI will have started off fishing with a lidl rod from the link above