I was a tackle shop manager for 2-3 years - nightmare!
I have been in the Creel once - superbly old-fashioned!
Couldn't recommend a single one as a 'great tackle shop' - they seem to have all gone around my way! Most are like a supermarket!
In search for the finest British Tackle shop!
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Olly
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Carp Artist
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Re: In search for the finest British Tackle shop!
Internet every time.
Not a fish was visible that first time I visited Beechmere; an utter
stillness brooded over the place and I felt the strange and sinister atmosphere which, so the story goes,
has been the cause of several suicides.’
BB – Confessions of a Carp Fisher
stillness brooded over the place and I felt the strange and sinister atmosphere which, so the story goes,
has been the cause of several suicides.’
BB – Confessions of a Carp Fisher
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Trammels
Re: In search for the finest British Tackle shop!
Are you thinking of Sweets St.John?St.John wrote:Davis tackle Christchurch, that little fly fishing shop in usk-forgotten the name but it's a portal to another era.
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CraigM
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Re: In search for the finest British Tackle shop!
I'll second The Creel in Aldershot, Tinca. 
There's [or there was until very recently] a good second hand tackle shop at nearby Ash Wharf.
There's [or there was until very recently] a good second hand tackle shop at nearby Ash Wharf.