Sealey Floatcaster deluxe - cane bottom, glass upper2 - help required please
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Re: Sealey Floatcaster deluxe - cane bottom, glass upper2 - help required please
I have this Floatcaster Deluxe that used to belong to my late Father. It is cane top two and the top section is a fair bit shorter. Not sure whether this is a “bitsa” rod or not. Anyone advise please?
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Re: Sealey Floatcaster deluxe - cane bottom, glass upper2 - help required please
I'd say the tip was probably broken at some point and all the line guides re-spaced out.
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Re: Sealey Floatcaster deluxe - cane bottom, glass upper2 - help required please
Yes, I agree with Jack...nice rod if you can source a new tip.
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Re: Sealey Floatcaster deluxe - cane bottom, glass upper2 - help required please
Blue Match was one of their compound tapered tip section 'glass rods from the mid Sixties. Bit expensive they are very rare now.Paul W wrote: ↑Mon Jun 22, 2020 8:38 pmWe used know the Sealy rods as ...... Sealy blue match rods when I was a kid....MaggotDrowner wrote: ↑Mon Jun 22, 2020 8:22 pm I have a floatcaster of this configuration. I think they also did a 12ft version in that configuration too.
I thought the original whipping colour was blue. Certainly a lot of Sealey rods were whipped in blue.
You may (or not) find that the underside of any whippings you remove are blue.
It’s just what everyone called them in sunny Yorkshire
A local lad had one and was the envy Of the local fishing community.
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Re: Sealey Floatcaster deluxe - cane bottom, glass upper2 - help required please
Thanks for the infoNobby wrote: ↑Tue Jul 14, 2020 4:25 pmBlue Match was one of their compound tapered tip section 'glass rods from the mid Sixties. Bit expensive they are very rare now.Paul W wrote: ↑Mon Jun 22, 2020 8:38 pmWe used know the Sealy rods as ...... Sealy blue match rods when I was a kid....MaggotDrowner wrote: ↑Mon Jun 22, 2020 8:22 pm I have a floatcaster of this configuration. I think they also did a 12ft version in that configuration too.
I thought the original whipping colour was blue. Certainly a lot of Sealey rods were whipped in blue.
You may (or not) find that the underside of any whippings you remove are blue.
It’s just what everyone called them in sunny Yorkshire
A local lad had one and was the envy Of the local fishing community.
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Re: Sealey Floatcaster deluxe - cane bottom, glass upper2 - help required please
My thanks to Jack - aka - Maggotdrowner - for the bottom eye ring and reel whipping thread - just arrived. It will give me something to do on the darker nights - busy gardening, jam and chutney making at the moment. As well as looking after 3 allotments - we basically - grow what we eat - apart from a odd slice of bacon.
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Re: Sealey Floatcaster deluxe - cane bottom, glass upper2 - help required please
My pleasure. It was in a box doing nothing. Much better on your rod.
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Re: Sealey Floatcaster deluxe - cane bottom, glass upper2 - help required please
My whipping is deffo dark green
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Re: Sealey Floatcaster deluxe - cane bottom, glass upper2 - help required please
What era are these I have a floatcaster deluxe with dark green whipping . Wondered what the build year might be