JJS Walker Bampton - "The Lennox" 9'

An old split cane rod "The Lennox", 9 ft 0 in (108 inches) long. 3 sections. Serial number 6784. The cane is in good condition. A few of the whippings can be secured and the varnish shows it's age. The rubber butt is has degraded somewhat.

Marked:

6784
J.J.S. WALKER BAMPTON & Co
MAKERS
ALNWICK

The number '2' is stamped on the two male ferrules (1st photo below).

Written in ink on the cane just above the handle (4th photo below): "The Lennox"

 

 

 

 

See more information about JJS Walker Bampton here.

The blog is not dead - Neither am I

I haven't been fishing this year. Just too busy with other projects.

The last few weeks - at the end of Summer and the fishing season, I've become obsessed with fly rods and reels - it's like a drug.

Although I have some really nice cane rods and some excellent carbon rods, I'm still after better cane and I'm still looking at expensive carbon... why oh why?

Reels are even worse. I think that I've bloged about the futility of fly reels - hey this is not Salmon fishing or Permit fishing where performance reels are really needed. We unwind our line and cast it, often not even using the reel when a fish is landed. Why then the obsession with spending a fortune on a machined masterpiece. No logic in that at all, but I still want a better one...

I'm after an authentic usable CC de France (Casting Club de France) Hardy cane rod. Between 7 and 8 feet for stream fishing. And a nice reel to go with it.

Then I'm after a Hardy Swift MkII, probably the Swift MK II 975 H00005 model that is 98mm in diameter. The Hardy Marksman 4/5 or the Marksman 5/6 would also be good with a matching nice new carbon rod.

Still dreaming ....

Colapteryx virgo

Colapteryx virgo (Male). European damselfly photographed at Bailleul sur Thérain. Very difficult to get close to, but with a little patience you can get a lucky shot like this.

Brown trout in Crillon

We visited the fish farm in Crillon last week. They buy in the fry and raise the trout for sale or to stock the dozen or so fishing dams on the site. They have Rainbow, brown and golden trout. Some specimen that are 6 years old grow up to 6 Kg! More info about the fish farm here

French Flies 2.0

If you read this blog from time to time, you will notice a change in the layout, address, feed address... actually quite a bit has changed.

I had problems trying to manage the format of the last blog as it was an FTP blob hosted on my server, but managed by Blogger. Some features of the Blogger blogs are only available if you host with Blogger using a Blogger address or your own domain, managed by Blogger.

So I set up http://fishing.teggin.com as the new address of the blog. The old addresses (http://www.teggin.com/fishing/ and http://www.teggin.com/peche/) will route to the new address.

Features that are quite neat are the Archive feature that is now hierarchical, there are 5 posts per page, with older posts linked to at the bottom. This improves page loading times and allows a reader to navigate in a logical way through the blog.

I may still tweak the template a bit or change it completely if I find something better out there.

So update your bookmarks and make sure to update your RSS reader to: http://fishing.teggin.com/feeds/posts/default