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[Shirleycodlin]

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

Hence I said partner

 

[Trampster]

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

I dread to think of the value of what we've got over in France. Some tools alone comprise 2 welders, Pillar drill, 24" Radial arm saw, Planer Thicknesser, 7ft Lathe, 5Kva generator, 3 ride on mowers, metal cut off saw, and loads more.

 

[Skaterboy]

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

I bought a box of 100 4/0 B940's a long time ago just before I switched to Varivas. There's still about 95 in the box. I'll keep a few but you're welcome to the rest, free to a good home.

No longer available. Can't even give them away

 

[Topwater]

I like the B940U, but they've become quite costly and worse don't resharpen like the Mustad Viking which are also far less expensive

 

[groundswell]

I bought a box of 100 4/0 B940's a long time ago just before I switched to Kamasans. There's still about 95 in the box. I'll keep a few but you're welcome to the rest, free to a good home.

The b940's are kamasans, and did you not like them ?

 

[Skaterboy]

The b940's are kamasans, and did you not like them ?

Sorry, I meant to type Varivas. The B940's are a good hook but I liked the stronger Varivas Big Mouths and Big Mouth Extras for the type of fishing I was doing.

 

[groundswell]

Sorry, I meant to type Varivas. The B940's are a good hook but I liked the stronger Varivas Big Mouths and Big Mouth Extras for the type of fishing I was doing.

I am with you, I prefer the standard big mouths as well but the varivas standard big mouths are not stronger than the B940’s the Kamasans are thicker in the wire and have a shorter shank and are far more rigid a hook and will tend to break rather than bend

 

[Mr Fish]

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.

Probably well deserved for a carp angler though?

 

[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

Wipe clean.... handy!