First Tackle Shop You Ever Used...

[Nigel Rainton]

Redfearn's in Hastings (Redfearns 8 Castle St Hastings Sussex). It was run by two elderly women, they may have been sisters. Very frightening ladies. They had Mk IV carp rods and Mitchell reels in the window. I spent more time looking in the shop window than I did inside the shop, they didn't like young lads.

[Black Prince]

Mine was a pet shop come tackle shop saw dust on the floor called Hartleys used to go there for maggots and the odd gold fish could never afford anything else but happy days wandering the canal that ran behind the shop and the legendary pike called big Bertha mike

[Mushy]

Redfearn's in Hastings (Redfearns 8 Castle St Hastings Sussex). It was run by two elderly women, they may have been sisters. Very frightening ladies. They had Mk IV carp rods and Mitchell reels in the window. I spent more time looking in the shop window than I did inside the shop, they didn't like young lads.

I was just about to say the same! Great shop, bought my first Mitchell 300, B&W Mk IV, remember rushing there one morning to buy some Avon Scales as I'd just caught a Carp worth weighing, happy days, not a care in the world!

[Capebreton]

A tackle shop in swindon. Cannot recall its name. A proper old fashioned shop

[Capebreton]

A tackle shop in swindon. Cannot recall its name. A proper old fashioned shop

[Paul D]

A little toy come tackle shop in sheerwater and of course my local Woolworths, I remember the lovely float's they sold in there Winfield packaging, really must try to hunt a couple out just for old times sake.

[Bob Brookes]

Bill (Knocker) Norris, Russell Terrace, Leamington Spa. It was in the cellar of the house that I was brought up in until I was 18 years old.

[Harry H]

McDowell's in Braintree, always enjoyed looking a the glass case full of floats.
For sea fishing it was Metcalfs at Walton on the Naze.

[Reedling]

Ah, yes, aged about 9 for sea fishing, first place was Ron Edwards at Herne Bay for a few score of lug and a packet of Squid.

[Carp Artist]

Kirkmans in Crawley West Sussex. Now long gone.