Has anyone come across the Cane rods by "Harry Carr" 10, Kirkstall Road, Leeds.? I have a 10ft 3inch , two piece cane rod. When i bought this off eBay it had high bells intermediate rings. I presumed it was a coarse rod, Roach?. However it has a very soft action and could cast a fly. It having sliding reel fittings further confused me. I reseached the name from the Logo on the rod and found he was active as a tackle dealer from 1910 until 1939?
He wrote regular articles for the 1930 editions of the "Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer" especially in the "Angling Magazine page". it seems he was a keen Grayling fisherman on the Wharfe and he travellled around the region to fish for Perch. It is a most interesting rod with possibly a dual purpose, ie float and fly.
Does anyone know of this Maker? or tackle dealer and if there are any other rods which bear his name. I have restored the rod with new, but used high bell rings replacing the very rusty original ones.
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Re: Harry Carr
Harry Carr - Yorkshire Post On this day 1936.
https: //www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/on-this-da ... arr-610266
https: //www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/on-this-da ... arr-610266
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That’s most interesting .
I aware of the Yorkshire Post article and will look up the ref in Peter Tombleson’s HTCT book on the Fixed Spool Ree,
Many thanks.
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I aware of the Yorkshire Post article and will look up the ref in Peter Tombleson’s HTCT book on the Fixed Spool Ree,
Many thanks.
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Re: Harry Carr
Well he comes across as a right twat. Sod the people dying, where's my new gut fly line coming from.
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It's not like you to sit on the fence WalWallys-Cast wrote: ↑Thu Nov 03, 2022 4:17 pm Well he comes across as a right twat. Sod the people dying, where's my new gut fly line coming from.
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Very restrained Wal. I’d have suggested to him that he sign up for the International Brigades and collect it himselfWallys-Cast wrote: ↑Thu Nov 03, 2022 4:17 pm Well he comes across as a right twat. Sod the people dying, where's my new gut fly line coming from.
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Many thanks. Have just checked the reference.
Expensive book.
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Expensive book.
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Re: Harry Carr
Harry CarrMike Crompton wrote: ↑Thu Nov 03, 2022 3:41 pm Has anyone come across the Cane rods by "Harry Carr" 10, Kirkstall Road, Leeds.? I have a 10ft 3inch , two piece cane rod. When i bought this off eBay it had high bells intermediate rings. I presumed it was a coarse rod, Roach?. However it has a very soft action and could cast a fly. It having sliding reel fittings further confused me. I reseached the name from the Logo on the rod and found he was active as a tackle dealer from 1910 until 1939?
He wrote regular articles for the 1930 editions of the "Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer" especially in the "Angling Magazine page". it seems he was a keen Grayling fisherman on the Wharfe and he travellled around the region to fish for Perch. It is a most interesting rod with possibly a dual purpose, ie float and fly.
Does anyone know of this Maker? or tackle dealer and if there are any other rods which bear his name. I have restored the rod with new, but used high bell rings replacing the very rusty original ones.
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It would have been a very interesting conversation to sit in on if Mr Carr and George Orwell had sat and talked about the impact the SCW had on each other.
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