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Had a punt on ebay and accidently won a Tookes 12' Special, split cane rod. Does anyone know anything about this make and model? If I keep winning on ebay I will be seriously thinking about selling all my carbon!!!

oh, it was you was it !

good catch mate

Hope so! I suspect it will need a bit of work!

Tookes was a Fishing tackle shop in the Fulham Road, London. As a youngster I used to dream of owning one of the rods in the window, yours may have been one of them.

Fulham road!! Guess it was an up market tackle shop then, if that's the case I hope the rod is quality!!

This is the Tookes Special: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/12-Split-Cane ... true&rt=nc

Anyone any ideas who made split cane rods for Tookes, Fulham Road???

Found a tad of info that Tookes were supplied by Milbro. Could this be a Milbro with the name of the tackle shop written on??

I have had a Tookes special with the 2 tips since the mid 1960's, I bought it second-hand for £2.15.0. I fished regularly with it for over 20 years and still use it a couple of times a year, its been a great rod.

Hi there Jacko, welcome to the forum. So what's the biggest fish you've had on the Tookes? The reason I'm asking is so I have some idea of where to use it. I suspect they were made by Marco, the fittings and butt section are exactly the same as my Marco 'Test'. My Tookes is now in pieces waiting to be restored! But I hope to be using it by the end of the summer.

hi Big Fish,the biggest fish I have had on my Tookes special was a Tench approximately 4lb, I mainly used it for float fishing on still waters but occasionally used it on rivers. I hope you have fun refurbishing it and even more fun fishing with it.