Re: action descriptions
Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 5:09 pm
MK IV Avon or Chapman 500. Both ten foot, both quite light in action.
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Agree. Both these would suit your needs smallscale.Haydn Clarke wrote:MK IV Avon or Chapman 500. Both ten foot, both quite light in action.
The Chapman 500 is an avon (ie general river) rod as opposed to the 550 which is a carp rod.Smallscale wrote:Thanks gents.
I take it a chapman 500 avon is the same thing as a chapmans 500?
I've just ordered one from antique and vintage tackle.
If I may: they also have a millwards finmaster in 9ft, any idea as to action and suitability?
Thanks again and any other suggestions wil be welcome.
Without looking and getting a tape measure out (we have dinner guests in ten minutes!) the Kennet P is 11'?Smallscale wrote:I dunno Tadpole, I do enjoy going light as we have some small species out here that are great fun on light tackle. As long as a possible 10lb fish, carefully played doesn't destroy it, it should be perfect.
Maybe I'll add a kennet to my quiver at some stage as well. What would the typical length of a kennet perfection be?
Thanks for the tip!
Now there's a thing - I'd always assumed that Chapmans never made a deluxe 550. Certainly all those I've seen have had unlined butt and tip rings. The spec on their website doesn't appear to mention a deluxe version:greentura wrote: My 550, also a lovely rod but too heavy for what you need, is a deluxe and rebuilt as per thd spec on the chapmans site.
there are many things that the Chapmans site doesn't show now, and more that it never showed. The deluxe 550 had a 22mm aqualite butt guide similar to a Mk4 carp, and aqualite tip to match, some were with a thread to take a swing tip, like mine, and some were standard. There seems to have ben quite a lot of flexibility as to the materials used or maybe it was down to what was in the spares box at the time.Davyr wrote:Now there's a thing - I'd always assumed that Chapmans never made a deluxe 550. Certainly all those I've seen have had unlined butt and tip rings. The spec on their website doesn't appear to mention a deluxe version:greentura wrote: My 550, also a lovely rod but too heavy for what you need, is a deluxe and rebuilt as per thd spec on the chapmans site.
http://www.chapmanblanks.co.uk/wordpress/?page_id=382
Am I looking in the wrong place? :think: