March At Birch House Lakes

This video, made at Birch House Lakes, includes a rod I’m pretty sure I had as a teenager. A 10’ Shakespeare Omni-Match rod. I recognised the rod amongst a job lot for sale locally. I bought my original rod from Belper Fishing Tackle Shop for around £70, which was a lot of money for a teenager in the mid-1980s. I also bought a small Shakespeare Cosmos reel, which was all I could afford after buying the rod. Unfortunately, the rod was stolen from my parents’ garage in the late 1980s, although I had a good few seasons catching Roach, Rudd and Perch, and learning the basics. Here I’ve matched the rod with a Daiwa 1600X reel, which looks about the same era.

https://youtu.be/B2MMLfN52XE?si=7DOrxHpIZ_A8w5B-