Golden Oldies

[Buckle&scream]

I've had these two rods since I was 8years old that my parents bought me for Christmas, so they been with me for over 20 years.
The black queen is a bit out of shape now but almost unbreakable!

I remember the Black Queens dad had a couple as well were a popular rod in their day, I heard you can still buy them???

Not sure about that Marty but most likely you can

[Buckle&scream]

these 2 reels were given to me awhile a go

B&S those old sigma's are a grate reel i am still using 2 0f the 040 for bait fishing for bream

and here is the 1st good small reel i had it took me months to save all my penny's to get it

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That's a nice looking reel tackle berry, I don't use my sigma reel only because it's quite noisey but it's feels very solid and strong.

[Buckle&scream]

That looks like a reproduction Black Queen. Not one of the old 60's/70's editions. Have you got a pic of the whole bottom section of rod?

Not sure Brett but probley is a reproduction since I was only born in 1980..

Here's the bottom half

[Boonanza]

Yes that's a later model reproduction you can still buy them.

[Boonanza]

This is the real McCoy my Black Queen Deluxe :thumbsup:

[Buckle&scream]

I still got my 1st rod(black queen) she's pretty f$cked now though. A mouse decided to chew on my cork and it's also missing 2 eyes and missing about a foot off the end of it.

Haha yeah mines missing 1 eye and really out of shape not straite Any more.

[Marty.A]

these 2 reels were given to me awhile a go

B&S those old sigma's are a grate reel i am still using 2 0f the 040 for bait fishing for bream

and here is the 1st good small reel i had it took me months to save all my penny's to get it

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Mate that's awesome and you still have the box as well Was thinking of using my old Diawa again after 15 years sitting in dads garage it still seems to work well.Im not sure if you can still get spares for it though but I'm just happy I've still got it after close to 30 years.

[Brett]

That looks like a reproduction Black Queen. Not one of the old 60's/70's editions. Have you got a pic of the whole bottom section of rod?

Not sure Brett but probley is a reproduction since I was only born in 1980..

Here's the bottom half

Makes sense then.

The original had a cork handle and different branding, I just couldn't put a year on when the branding changed.

As Boony said, you can still buy a lot of the old solid glass rods as JW decided to bring them back a while ago, unsure of the reason now. But they were very popular back in the day. My first was the Bonnie Doon, used it for everything Port Albert could throw at it.

[Buckle&scream]

This is the real McCoy my Black Queen Deluxe :thumbsup:

Nice looking rod bonanza, now I know what the original one looks like. Is there much difference with the original and the after market do you know what's been changed on it?

[Truedogz]

I've gone totally retro and now only use the gear from the 1950s and 60s - the stuff of my childhood:

Mitchell 300 reel, Crouch 77 reel and Jarvis Walker Stanley split cane fishing rods.

Crouch 77 reel and Jarvis Walker Tamar cane fishing rod.

Steelite reel and Jarvis Walker Sealake cane fishing rod.

The gear is in top nick, feels great and catches plenty of fish. The split cane is a lot lighter than the old solid fibreglass rods. Love the quality of the old tackle.

The only exception is my flyrod which is carbon fibre.

I still use a lot the old retro lures such as floppys, pluckies, Mitchell and Colorado spinners. Because the fish don't see them these days they work a treat!

The light tackle still pulls in big fish:

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In my collection at home I've got every stage in the evolution of Jarvis Walker rods, from the first cane rods where the name was burnt into the cane through to the early solid glass rods. They actually had a great range of cane rods from the lightest, the Erskine (ultra light spinning), through the Stanley (spinning), Tamar (heavy spinning), the Sealake and Portsea (definitely a cod rod!).


Truedogz