HAVE YOU BEEN CONNED

What is the most useless piece of FISHING EQUIPMENT you have ever purchased doesn't have to be expensive just something that wasn't up to the task

Folding Fladen Sand spike, a round rod with a flattened bit at the end about 8 inches long with a plastic tube about 8 inches long to stand your rod in, might hold fast if you wedged it a rock crevice and use a 2 foot rod I suppose.

mine would be a telescopic coarse fishing rod I bought last month for my wife to take on holiday with the daughter and grand kids , she threw it away in the first x2 days the eyes kept falling down ,the joint kept twisting and the wrapping on the handle was coming undone and when she went to cast it would collapse into itself  it was £15 waisted

I was conned in to buying fishing rods, reels, line, hooks, bait, bags, boxes, beads, leads, lights and so much more cos somebody said I need it to catch FISH

kirky wrote:

I was conned in to buying fishing rods, reels, line, hooks, bait, bags, boxes, beads, leads, lights and so much more cos somebody said I need it to catch FISH

Cheap hooks from Ebay

I bought a fishing hoodie off a dodgy character once and the first time I used it I blanked

longranger wrote:

I bought a fishing hoodie off a dodgy character once and the first time I used it I blanked

I bought some polarized sunglasses of ebay but when I got them they were normal glasses

Everytime i buy bait! I really have no excuse when ive got a lugpump and live so close to the beach.

I was talked into buying a fisheagle casting multiplier after being told they could be easily converted from levelwind to no.
just wanted a back up multi as, although i love my abu multis, ive had two die prematurely during shore sessions so wanted a back up reel. sure enough when the second abu multi packed up, the (difficult, but converted to non levelwind) fisheagle multi lasted a whole 12wks before packing up as well!
I brought an old leeda riptide casting multi from a bootsale and removed the braking blocks and greased itvwith WD40 and rocket fuel. it casts beautifully ive landed bass to over 8lb on it and it cost me literally a couple of quid.
had my abu reels serviced and repaired my mr Quentin Millman of QM services in portsmouth. excellent service and he charged me nothing to replace one reel after it died on its maiden outing (inferior spindle - rare and it bent distorting the frame) unfortunatley, i was deployed to afghanistan weeks later then got wounded in action days before i was due home sustaining extensive shoulder injuries which required 15+months rehab stopping me from beachcasting as i couldnt cast! By the time i got to the point where i could cast further than my 6yr old, the beachbug was truly chewing on me ass so i went to sort the gear and saw that my reel was totaly knacked. i contacted the abu centre ran by mr Quentin Millman and his team, explained the problem and he told me to send it back. a few weeks later i got a brand new abu multi free of charge sent back as a "thankyou/apology" for serving the country and for the reel breaking so quickly. it restored my faith in humanity and all my abus go there to be serviced now!
I made beachcasting part of my rehab as it helped me get strength and movement in my Rt shoulder and was posted nr southampton and fishing magazine lane in the docks. there i was very lucky to have my best season ever, soles to 3lb+ thronies, bass to 10lb + on freelined pout under the rodtip, starry smoothounds to 6lb+ gurnards, eels, whiting, dogfish, bull huss, plaice, i could go on and on. moving to wales in feb on discharge, ive had lots of flatties and caught my first codling & cod to 6lb off splashpoint which really made my spring!
Now bass are my favourite species and ive fished for them for years. my Pb is 10lb 8oz on pout livebait freelined in the marginsl rocks and weed. i watchedvthe bass stalk the rocks so close i could have touched it. it sucked a dead pout from the surface right by my feet to i plopped a livebait in the same spot and he nailed it and the battle was on! He has weighed photographed and released and witnessed by a load of match anglers who all then slid traces hooked onto their mainlines with pout live/deadbaits hooked on. the margins were full of bobbingvpout and not another bass was hooked that night! lol!
Endex

Wonder if I am the only non squaddie to have had to look up what Endex means!

Everyday a school day!

Sorry!! End of exercise/task/activity. more squaddie slang:
Gucci - awesome/brilliant
chinstrapped - knackered (as in "im on my chinstrap" off a soldiers chin on his helmet strap when gasping for air)
Bone - rubbish/shite
shiters - self explainatory!
Rats/boil bags - rations
doss bag/maggot/green maggot - sleeping bag.
pit - bed
bug out - run away
slot it/tap out/give the good news/read their horoscope - shoot an enemy soldier
gimpy - general purpose machine gun
crap hat - non parachute trained soldiers
rif raf/crab airlines - RAF
black/brown taxis - boots
Dezzie wellies - desert boots
long - (sniper) rifle
short - pistol
wet/brew - cup of tea
tabbing - fast walk with fighting equipment and rifle
combat body warmer - body armour
combat nappy - pelvic armour
squaddie skid lid - helmet
Gat - SA80 A2 service rifle
barklay card - shotgun for door entry (a barklay card gets you anywhere!)
Wrap - give up.
sack it - end activity prematurely
nig - new in greens (brand new to 1st unit)
thousand mile stare - look worn by those been in combat
spin a ditty - tell a story
sprog - new and inexperienced soldier
biff - sick/lame/lazy/fatty soldier (delete as appropriate)
Stacked - muscular
oppo - best mate
sanger - lookout post.
Yaffel/scoff/scran - eat
kfs/scoffing/yaffeling spanners - knife/fork and spoon
zeds/crash/get your head down - go to sleep
woolly pully - knitted pullover
stripey - seargent
full screw - corporal
lance jack - lance corporal
tom - private (after tommy atkins, a WW1 Squaddie)
Squaddie - soldier
blade/jedi - special forces operator (commonly SAS)
scaleyback - signaller
spook/green slime - intelligence corps
sneaky scaley/SFC - special forces communicator
rupert - officer
boss - respected officer
one pip pup - junior brand new officer
racing snake - fast runner
ops - going on tour
NAAFI - shop
ninja - very hard (that P.T session wad ninja)
P.T. - physical training
pinged - chosen for a task
voluntold - made to volunteer for a task through pressure
plums - a soldier who is in need of sexual relief as they have been waiting for a while.
squaddie chaser - a girl who enjoys sexual relations with soldiers
pot noodle family - girl with children from various casual encounters who meet and marry a soldier who takes financial responsibility of the whole family (pot noodle family - just add swuaddie)
Tankie - squaddie who drives a tank
blue tack commando - army air corps (their beret is sky blue)
Armchair commando - older soldiers/non deployable soldiers who have an opinion on everything based on experiences that occurred many years ago in some obscure theatre
theatre - area of operations where soldiers are based and operating.
Gash - rubbish
gen - the truth
pukkagen - complete utter no doubt info
wavy navy - royal naval volunteer reserve
grey funnel line - royal navy
hanging (out) - utter exhaustion
gopping - utterly disgusting
flap/flapping - to panic (usually unecessarily)
Flash/snap - lose temper/patience
hertz van rental - mythical dutch officer
ABC - all been changed
ABCBA - all been changed back again
walt/walter mitty - fake/exaggerated thinks they are the best at everything
basha - bedspace under a poncho in a ditch on exercise
poncho - rubberised plastic sheet used as shelter
beast/rag - extreme physical excercise
chunder/hurl/yodelling the porcialin horn - to vomit
knacked - tired
stag - guard duty
stand to - get ready for imminent attack - be at your post.
god botherer/devil dodger - padre
browners - dead
taliban hillfighter - play on words based on tommy hillfigure logo.
kill patch - ?worn by some to show they are confirmed kills
horror bag - army issue packed lunch
mince - to aimlessly complete a task in the slowest possible time
bimble - stroll aimlessly
bite - wind someone up
banjo - fried egg sandwich
chad valley - cheesy/poor quality
civ div - outside civilian life
civvy - civilian
dhobi - wash/washing
dig out - make an exceptional effort
black nasty - gaffa tape
sniper tape - green fabric tape
vet - veteren
essence - gorgeous woman
sit rep - situation report
fibua - fighting in built up areas
Fish - fighting in someones house
chips - causing havoc in peoples streets
get on it - have many beers
Bootneck - royal marine
jack tar - naval rating.
Bin it - give up
Jonah - someone who always seems to be under contact
contact - under fire from the enemy
contact IED - soldier triggering an IED
IED - improvised explosive device - roadside bomb
felix - bomb disposal officer (ATO)
ATO - ammo techical officer

Hope we aren't going to be tested on these!

Takes me right back

Thats just the first page... maybe i should wrote a dictionary. the oxford new squaddie dictionary - now available in fablon covered paperback!

ouchthathurt wrote:

Thats just the first page... maybe i should wrote a dictionary. the oxford new squaddie dictionary - now available in fablon covered paperback!

You left one out;

RAMC = Rob All My Comrades What do you reckon Jack

Not heard that for a while Logger! RAMC -

Here we go...

RAMC - run away matrons coming
CMT - canvas maintenence technicians

We tended to call the marines "royals" too - had a few mates in the CDO's and the shakey boats. good bunch of lads.

jack wrote:

Logger wrote:

ouchthathurt wrote:

Thats just the first page... maybe i should wrote a dictionary. the oxford new squaddie dictionary - now available in fablon covered paperback!

You left one out;

RAMC = Rob All My Comrades  What do you reckon Jack  

LOL.

We were known as Bootnecks.Navy called us Royals.

We had a couple of good names for you too
I'd call you 22 Karat