Review More new toys

[Tatunka joe]

Just bought these off a mate for a hundred £ each the 4 lb pollock will be perfect for Lyme bay bream and drifting and the 30 lber will get a work out tommrow chaseing spurs blondes and conger up bc brilliant rods can’t wait to give em a go the 30 lber only been used once

 

[chesilpete]

Nice!

 

[Ollieollie]

Worth more than the tranny in the pic

 

[J Richards]

Look great mate.

 

[Tatunka joe]

Worth more than the tranny in the pic

You take the piss but my other toys turning up next and it’s shiny and new bet I won’t like it as much as me transit but at least it won’t stall in jewsons and have to get a jump off there forklift when it’s cold

 

[Ollieollie]

You take the piss but my other toys turning up next and it’s shiny and new bet I won’t like it as much as me transit but at least it won’t stall in jewsons and have to get a jump off there forklift when it’s cold

Ooh, what you getting?

 

[Tatunka joe]

Ooh, what you getting?

I wanted a transit trail lwb but at £58 K little above me pay grade so opted for a Renault sport lwb be alright bey getting sign written up but do a job bey

 

[Ollieollie]

I wanted a transit trail lwb but at £58 little above me pay grade so opted for a Renault sport lwb be alright bey getting sign written up but do a job bey

Nice mate! You’ll miss the old stallion

 

[stan m]

Hmm! I would not dream of mentioning who designed the Triology 30 along with Steve McManus

 

[Tatunka joe]

Nice mate! You’ll miss the old stallion

Keeping her mate gonna keep in the yard till summer use it for getting down to our chalet she don’t owe me nothing

 

[Tatunka joe]

Hmm! I would not dream of mentioning who designed the Triology 30 along with Steve McManus

Wtf

 

[tdxs133pm]

Hmm! I would not dream of mentioning who designed the Triology 30 along with Steve McManus

Wtf

Hmmm.Stan.At a guess.

 

[stan m]

Hmmm.Stan.At a guess.

They had the trio up to 20lb and I convinced Steve that a particular heavier blank could be incoporated and make the triology a quadology, simples Designed Ian Houltons Pathfinder range as well

 

[Tatunka joe]

They had the trio up to 20lb and I convinced Steve that a particular heavier blank could be incoporated and make the triology a quadology, simples Designed Ian Houltons Pathfinder range as well

Did you design this rod mate ??? That wot your saying

 

[tdxs133pm]

Hmm! I would not dream of mentioning who designed the Triology 30 along with Steve McManus

Did you design this rod mate ??? That wot your saying

Looks like Stan had some input ma bute.

 

[stan m]

Did you design this rod mate ??? That wot your saying

Idea was mine, design was Steves with input from myself

 

[Topwater]

Excellent rods TJ! They'll definitely serve you well.
I'm far from alone in rueing the day Conoflex shut up shop. There's been talk of others producing from the mandrels, stores of blanks in containers etc etc but nothing has come of it. I even had a light hearted conversation with Stan about forming 'Albaflex' but its not the machinery and tooling, its the McManus expertise thats retired.

 

[Tatunka joe]

Idea was mine, design was Steves with input from myself

Well fair play it’s a lovely rod to use very light only dogs so far off to mid channel hopefully a blonde or a spur will put a decent bend in it well done sir cracking rod think I got myself a bargain

 

[stan m]

Excellent rods TJ! They'll definitely serve you well.
I'm far from alone in rueing the day Conoflex shut up shop. There's been talk of others producing from the mandrels, stores of blanks in containers etc etc but nothing has come of it. I even had a light hearted conversation with Stan about forming 'Albaflex' but its not the machinery and tooling, its the McManus expertise thats retired.

Might be a few blanks still kicking around. I took more or less most of the boat blanks, from memory 140 but they are all long gone. Harrison bought the machinery and mandrills but as you say, you need Steve for the design expertise. Aiden was a wet blanket.

Wee aside lines, Steve phoned me the very last night as he was shutting the factory, about 2200 hrs. Was a bit cheesed off that his final production that day had been a batch of fibreglass shovel handles.

 

[Mike hemming]

I sold off all my fishing equipment 6months ago due to ill health and no time for fishing lost total interest in it , but I just couldn’t let go of my conoflex rods there is something special about them, they have a feeling that other rod manufacturers don’t have, perhaps one day the urge will come back and I’ll be back on the shingle until then I’ll sit back and watch what happens