Old Nottingham style reels

[Wamfess]

Brilliant Phill, anything else you have will be gratefully recieved. Thanks!!

[StefanDuma]

I too have an interest in the BSAS, sea reels and Charles Henry Cook, aka John Bickerdyke.
He featured in my book on the Dreadnought Casting Reel Company having spent a couple of days on the Isle of Wight looking at the new developments they were doing, especially in celluloid trout fishing distance casting and sea fishing.
He was an all round angler and wrote a few kind words on Slater and his tackle. Slater was heavily involved in the BSAS making special rods and reels for various members.
I have never despite years of looking been able to find a Slater stamped Scarborough reel, although I do have a Hardy Scarborough reel made by Slater. My new book, a quick plug for Trentmen, due out next year will feature lots of sea reels with some fascinating examples of Hardy, Carter and Bernard all made by Slater.
I will be at Redditch next week if anyone has a Slater Stamped Scarborough.

[Phil Arnott]

I have these books by Bickerdyke - Angling in Salt Water, Letters To Young Sea-Fishers, Letters To Sea-Fishers, Sea Fishing – Badminton Library, Book of the All-round Angler. It comes across in his books that he was a very knowledgeable and competent angler.

Percy Wadham who was associated with the Dreadnought reels gave two talks to the BSAS, "Reels and Their Manufacture" 1912 and "Light Spinning for Sea Fish" 1921.

I don't know anything about "The Dreadnought Sea Angling Society" established the year before PW's first talk in 1911 so was this the source of the Dreadnought name?. One reference says it took over from the BSAS but this can't be true as the BSAS continued until 1939. So it may have been a splinter group or possibly still a part of the BSAS.

There were other national organisations around at the same time as BSAS. The ones I know about are the "The Scottish Sea Anglers' Society", "The National Federation of Sea Anglers", "The National Council of Sea Anglers" and the "British Tunny Club"

Any information on these other organisations would be welcome.

[Rod Fisher]

Percy Wadham who was associated with the Dreadnought reels gave two talks to the BSAS, "Reels and Their Manufacture" 1912 and "Light Spinning for Sea Fish" 1921.

I don't know anything about "The Dreadnought Sea Angling Society" established the year before PW's first talk in 1911 so was this the source of the Dreadnought name?

HMS Dreadnought, a battleship that heralded a new era in the projection of naval power, was constructed in Portsmouth harbour in 1906. This would have been highly visible from Wadham's base on the Isle of Wight, and a source of local and national pride.

[StefanDuma]

The British Tunny Club is a story in its own right. I did a number of articles on it, the arguments between Zane Grey, Mitchel-Henry and the roll that Hardy Brothers had.
I have just started rebuilding the ATO and Percy Wadham site but only because I'm waiting on reels to photograph next week for Trentmen.