I'm always at loose ends this time of year (made worse this year by a persistent flu bug and a bad back) so while going through the typical late winter routines (well...fairly non-typical this year, it was 73 degrees F today), I've been distracting myself by attempting to inexpensively re-enter the old fishing tackle game. I fished old bamboo rods w/silk lines out here for years until the value of my "old" tackle went nuts in the early 2000s. Stuff I'd paid yard-sale prices for in the 80s had become fairly valuable, and...at about that time, I had an expensive older (1930s) rod fail rather catastrophically. Anyway, I peddled the whole lot, went modern, and even bought a few guns with the profits. Fast forward to now. Many of the folks I used to rely on for sources of information and/or good old tackle are either going or gone. If you think the language of old shotguns is archaic, try old cane rods and low-tech reels. In our now "modern and throwaway" society, finding and fishing old blue-collar tackle is considered pretty odd (at least by some of the millennials I now work with). The prices have come down rather sharply on most of it, so getting what I need really isn't too tough (i.e., eBay) but the traditional sources of supply are clearly drying up. Loss of expertise doesn't just affect the gun world. If you're into something fairly obscure, get what you need while you can.
Last edited by Lloyd3; 03/15/17 09:32 PM.
