This was the same Terry Thomas who designed the Swimversa and Craftversa rods for Milwards. Both were based on a spinning rod, the Spinversa, originally designed just for the Milwards board of Directors on their annual game fishing holidays. I'm uncertain if Terry was the original designer of the reverse taper butt idea but it seems most likely as he was granted a European Patent on the idea.
I'm told that one of his co-presenters on Angling Today was a very young, pre Tiswas, Chris Tarrant.
When Milwards dropped the fishing tackle making around 1966 Terry transferred over to Edgar Sealey where he ran a 'board' of other experts to promote the range of rods. I suspect he also got involved in design too as he introduced some tip tapered rod and more importantly some 'staggered ferrule rods', which had rod sections of different lengths. As far as I'm aware only Milwards had offered these SFR's before.
One episode of Angling Today apparently saw Terry's fishing companion catch a surprise salmon out of season followed by Terry burning through the line with his cigar muttering something about being unsporting..........
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