Rig building

[Angrybear]

Had a pleasant couple of evenings in the garage last week, going through a couple of rig wallets replacing the rigs used on the last rip, and ditching any rusty hooks etc.
Took me a few go's to get back in the swing of it, remembering how to tie knots, or forgetting to put beads, crimps or sliding tube stops on before tying on the swivel or weight clip, & there are a few fancy gizmo's that I'm dammed if I can remember how they work
But mainly I was just so thankful that I'd kept it all, I dread to think what replacing it all would cost.

 

[Mike]

There is something quite nice in the period just before Christmas and between Christmas and New Year of sitting down, with a nice whisky, chopping rigs apart and keeping all the good bits. I don't know why, but, I find it very satisfying.

 

[Ollieollie]

There is something quite nice in the period just before Christmas and between Christmas and New Year of sitting down, with a nice whisky, chopping rigs apart and keeping all the good bits. I don't know why, but, I find it very satisfying.

Any particular whisky Mike?

 

[chesilpete]

Had a pleasant couple of evenings in the garage last week, going through a couple of rig wallets replacing the rigs used on the last rip, and ditching any rusty hooks etc.
Took me a few go's to get back in the swing of it, remembering how to tie knots, or forgetting to put beads, crimps or sliding tube stops on before tying on the swivel or weight clip, & there are a few fancy gizmo's that I'm dammed if I can remember how they work
But mainly I was just so thankful that I'd kept it all, I dread to think what replacing it all would cost.

I bought two boxes of Kamasans from Veals this week.... 80 odd quid!

 

[Mike]

Any particular whisky Mike?

Quite partial to a Balvenie or a Singleton generally. During covid, a friend of mine got me a bottle of Nc'Nean that helped smooth the wheels of the winter rig making and fly tying!

 

[Shirleycodlin]

I tend to get most of my rig making done in the summer.
Sat outside, pack of ale on the go and test match special on the radio.
This time of year, I'd rather be fishing than tying rigs!

 

[Shirleycodlin]

I bought two boxes of Kamasans from Veals this week.... 80 odd quid!

Good hooks though

 

[Cwab]

Have two seasons of rigs made up due to binge making but only use x2 types a basic pulley and a three way swivel affair for the rough but do tend to go through a few. Next major purchase for me x100+ 7 ounce leads next summer.

 

[Wolf]

I replace the rigs ,the day after I've used them.I only use my hooks once,I put them in a little box & pass them on to a junior when I see them fishing.

 

[Angrybear]

I bought two boxes of Kamasans from Veals this week.... 80 odd quid!

Blimey , size 1 & 2 - £6, 1/0 - £8.75, 2/0 - £11.25, 4/0 - £15.75, 6/0 - £25.
Berkley cross-lock snap swivels 80lb were £8.99 a gross (144), not much else still has a price tag.

If you want a real shock, add up the replacement cost of everything, then go & compare it to what you said on the house insurance

 

[chesilpete]

Blimey , size 1 & 2 - £6, 1/0 - £8.75, 2/0 - £11.25, 4/0 - £15.75, 6/0 - £25.
Berkley cross-lock snap swivels 80lb were £8.99 a gross (144), not much else still has a price tag.

If you want a real shock, add up the replacement cost of everything, then go & compare it to what you said on the house insurance

My gear is insured for 35 k because that's what it's worth

 

[Shirleycodlin]

My gear is insured for 35 k because that's what it's worth

Totally agree, why insure it for less than it's worth.
It doesn't take long to reach that sort of figure.
Especially if you fish many dissaplins of the sport and then your partner decides she wants to be a lure angler
Jeez those bits of plastic are expensive

 

[Mike]

I watched a carp video a while ago where a lad went to fish in Spain. He's used to doing the tunnel or the Pompey to St Malo hop to fish in France. The French authorities are used to this and don't care about checking vans for the most part. For this trip, he took the Plymouth to Santander ferry. The Spanish customs officers are not used to seeing vans loaded with tackle, so they were suspicious. Post Brexit, authorities in the EU can charge import duty on products in personal cars if they feel that the amount exceeds a sensible amount. They opened up this lad's van and saw it rammed full of fishing tackle.

They asked him to value it, he came up with a figure of around £12k (a conservative estimate) and then they proceeded to charge him VAT for bringing it into Spain, at the price of around two and half grand. Furthermore, they told him to photograph every item he had, then when he got back to Santander, if he could prove it was all still in his van to go back to the UK, he'd get his two and half grand back.

Which to be fair to the Spanish authorities, they did indeed pay him back when they saw he'd brought the same kit back with him.

The point of the story is - we've probably got a lot more tackle in ££ that we realise.

 

[chesilpete]

Totally agree, why insure it for less than it's worth.
It doesn't take long to reach that sort of figure.
Especially if you fish many dissaplins of the sport and then your partner decides she wants to be a lure angler
Jeez those bits of plastic are expensive

That's it exactly, blue water gear, Norway gear, big river gear, lure gear, boat gear, beach gear.
When it come to plastic we have drawers full of blue water poppers and lures all from the best manufacturers... you start adding just those up and you get to a big number.

 

[Shirleycodlin]

That's it exactly, blue water gear, Norway gear, big river gear, lure gear, boat gear, beach gear.
When it come to plastic we have drawers full of blue water poppers and lures all from the best manufacturers... you start adding just those up and you get to a big number.

Is it just you, or does your partner fish as well?
Or household is double up on everything.
Except lures. Im leaving the rubber and plastic fetishism to Jax

 

[Shirleycodlin]

I watched a carp video a while ago where a lad went to fish in Spain. He's used to doing the tunnel or the Pompey to St Malo hop to fish in France. The French authorities are used to this and don't care about checking vans for the most part. For this trip, he took the Plymouth to Santander ferry. The Spanish customs officers are not used to seeing vans loaded with tackle, so they were suspicious. Post Brexit, authorities in the EU can charge import duty on products in personal cars if they feel that the amount exceeds a sensible amount. They opened up this lad's van and saw it rammed full of fishing tackle.

They asked him to value it, he came up with a figure of around £12k (a conservative estimate) and then they proceeded to charge him VAT for bringing it into Spain, at the price of around two and half grand. Furthermore, they told him to photograph every item he had, then when he got back to Santander, if he could prove it was all still in his van to go back to the UK, he'd get his two and half grand back.

Which to be fair to the Spanish authorities, they did indeed pay him back when they saw he'd brought the same kit back with him.

The point of the story is - we've probably got a lot more tackle in ££ that we realise.

Yet again another reason for great Britain to become an empire again.

 

[kevothefish]

Had a pleasant couple of evenings in the garage last week, going through a couple of rig wallets replacing the rigs used on the last rip, and ditching any rusty hooks etc.
Took me a few go's to get back in the swing of it, remembering how to tie knots, or forgetting to put beads, crimps or sliding tube stops on before tying on the swivel or weight clip, & there are a few fancy gizmo's that I'm dammed if I can remember how they work
But mainly I was just so thankful that I'd kept it all, I dread to think what replacing it all would cost.

My only advice is that if you ever have a thought drift into your head that it may be an idea to sell a few rigs, give yourself a slap before your home looks like this

 

[Trampster]

I watched a carp video a while ago where a lad went to fish in Spain. He's used to doing the tunnel or the Pompey to St Malo hop to fish in France. The French authorities are used to this and don't care about checking vans for the most part. For this trip, he took the Plymouth to Santander ferry. The Spanish customs officers are not used to seeing vans loaded with tackle, so they were suspicious. Post Brexit, authorities in the EU can charge import duty on products in personal cars if they feel that the amount exceeds a sensible amount. They opened up this lad's van and saw it rammed full of fishing tackle.

They asked him to value it, he came up with a figure of around £12k (a conservative estimate) and then they proceeded to charge him VAT for bringing it into Spain, at the price of around two and half grand. Furthermore, they told him to photograph every item he had, then when he got back to Santander, if he could prove it was all still in his van to go back to the UK, he'd get his two and half grand back.

Which to be fair to the Spanish authorities, they did indeed pay him back when they saw he'd brought the same kit back with him.

The point of the story is - we've probably got a lot more tackle in ££ that we realise.

HMRC are just as bad here, if not worse.
I had a right bust up with them online a couple of years ago. I was told that the time limit for bringing possessions back from the EU had expired after Brexit, and anything I bring back from our place in France, I might get charged VAT & Import duty on. No leeway.
Luckily, I've brought a few smaller bits back and not been stopped.
99% of what is over there in terms of furniture (some of it was lent to us) and many tools were bought in the UK, VAT paid and taken to France.
Some of my tools I've had for over 40 years. And nobody keeps receipts for that long to prove where & when it was bought, and the value.

 

[chesilpete]

Is it just you, or does your partner fish as well?
Or household is double up on everything.
Except lures. Im leaving the rubber and plastic fetishism to Jax

Oddly on the foreign fishing stuff I have a boyfriend! We like to share everything!!!

 

[crablante]

HMRC are just as bad here, if not worse.
I had a right bust up with them online a couple of years ago. I was told that the time limit for bringing possessions back from the EU had expired after Brexit, and anything I bring back from our place in France, I might get charged VAT & Import duty on. No leeway.
Luckily, I've brought a few smaller bits back and not been stopped.
99% of what is over there in terms of furniture (some of it was lent to us) and many tools were bought in the UK, VAT paid and taken to France.
Some of my tools I've had for over 40 years. And nobody keeps receipts for that long to prove where & when it was bought, and the value.

I've just come back from France/Spain with ~£2k of UK bought kit (waaaaaay too much kit) - I didn't know crazy stuff like this could happen