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Where it all started…<\/p><\/div>\n
I understand that certain things are expensive. His point was backed up with how everything in carp fishing is shoved in your face to make you buy it.. well turn on the telly and it’s also full of adverts pushing various consumerables.<\/p>\n
Then I was hit with the classic line, that if the guy went fishing with me he would catch far more with his cheap rods than I would with mine (my Centurys hardly cost me a fortune but I’m very happy with them). Well some people are competitive, but I certainly am not.\u00a0 If the fishing is off and I blank it’s not the end of the world, I’d rather concentrate on myself and what I’m doing right or wrong.<\/p>\n
I play the guitar and there’s a phrase that often gets used and it goes like this: a good player can make a cheap guitar sound good, but a bad player can’t make an expensive guitar sound good. Well if a novice angler wants to spend a thousand pounds on a set of rods because he can, or he desperately wants to, I think that’s absolutely fair play to him.\u00a0 It is a good idea to balance your tackle to suit how you fish, most people can’t afford to or won’t buy different sets of rods and reels for different situations.\u00a0 A bit of common sense about what you’re going to be doing with your setup is advisable.<\/p>\n
Getting back to the conversation… the most venom from the guy was directed at bite alarms, he expressed complete disgust at what some of them cost.\u00a0 I was posed with the question; ‘what’s the difference between a twenty quid and a hundred and twenty quid alarm?.. they both only go beep’.\u00a0 Receiver boxes got a hammering too, something along the line of ‘if you can’t wake up from the noise outside a bivvy, you shouldn’t be night fishing’ and ‘anyone that pays five hundred quid for a set of buzzers and a receiver is not right in the head’.<\/p>\n
Top end alarms are a lot of money and i’ve often thought that there is a gap in the market for some of the really big tackle companies to sell a set aimed at the mid price range.\u00a0 Imagine if Korda with their massive brand awareness, branched out and sold a set of three alarms and a receiver for around two fifty to three hundred pounds; I think the sales would be massive.<\/p>\n
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Who remembers these?<\/p><\/div>\n
So I left the conversation without being able to really justify the price of carp tackle to him (I still think that certain things are overpriced, but that could be another blog in the future, so I’ll keep quiet).\u00a0 A couple of days later I was thinking about the conversation\/one sided argument and there was one point that really stood out to me… ‘they both only go beep’.<\/p>\n
Fair point, but what about the times they don’t go beep.\u00a0 What about freezing cold nights in winter when you’re desperate for just one fish at a time and it doesn’t go beep.\u00a0 Maybe you’re targeting a specific fish and that one time he takes your hook bait and it doesn’t go beep.\u00a0 How much do you trust your alarms? I don’t want to knock any manufacturer, because i’m sure there are some really great cheap alarms.\u00a0 But how important is it to have complete confidence when it really matters?\u00a0 I’ve owned alarms from all over the price range, I started with budget alarms that would scream off for no reason and only gurgle for the real takes. I bought a set named after a well know super hero that didn’t want to adhere to the basic principles of what a bite alarm should actually do, I even used to take spare alarms with me because certain ones were so unreliable.<\/p>\n
These are the most important purposes of a bite alarm for me:- it has to be reliable, it needs to survive all weather conditions, I need it to let me know when the batteries are getting flat and I want it to beep when and in the manner it needs to.<\/p>\n
A couple of guys I know both bought matching presentation alarm and receiver kits from the internet a few years ago.\u00a0 They were manufactured in America and when one person got a run the other person’s receiver picked it up; an unnecessary problem, especially at night.\u00a0 Another great thing about the well know big manufacturers is the after sales service.\u00a0 I bought a set of Nash RS1 Sirens when they first came out and had a problem with one of the heads after a year, I sent all three alarms and receiver back to them and they sent me a brand new set straight away and the communications from them was fantastic.\u00a0 You really do get what you pay for.\u00a0 My good friend Stewart uses Delkims and he had a slight buzz from the receiver which he sent back to them and got a fresh one straight away, no hassle.<\/p>\n
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Will they still work when it’s freezing?<\/p><\/div>\n
In summary, if I work out what i’ve spent on alarms in the past that have gone wrong or i’ve not been happy with, the amount would be very close to what i actually paid for the Sirens.\u00a0 I have wasted money by buying cheap alarms only to buy a more expensive set in the long run.\u00a0 Quality stuff should last you ages, it’s an investment and once you’ve got it, good alarms will pay for themselves over the many years of long service.\u00a0 It’s the same with rods, reels, bivvies, everything.<\/p>\n
Ebay can have some great deals on second hand tackle, or even people you know or friends of friends might have good quality gear to sell.\u00a0 There’s no shame in buying second hand;\u00a0 its not about having the most expensive stuff, its about having what you are prepared to spend YOUR hard earned money on and getting the maximum enjoyment from it.<\/p>\n
Cheers for reading How much is the average carp angler willing to spend on tackle? It’s an interesting question considering the massive consumerism that goes with carping.\u00a0 The reasons for me writing this blog comes from having what was almost a very heated conversation\/debate with a guy the other week over the prices of bait and tackle items.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1067,890],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-andrew-gilbert","category-carp-tackle"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAndy Gilbert<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"