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Re: Combatting TA (tackle addiction)
« Reply #1220 on: July 18, 2017, 08:22:08 AM »
Finally took the leap and created a Tackle warehouse account, only benefit is easier checkout, still have to pay upfront before delivery :blush:

only thing I need to save on now is 1000yrd spools of line and some other small bits and ends, if I get to go to Canada before I submit to the required NEED, well then BPS will be e tad more expensive, but then I'll save on shipping.

So R9k later (just some deep cranks, rattletraps, weird spinner-baits and the odd cable or two) not forgetting the recent bill in NY that was R35k, I should start looking at building the bigger Phantom18 with a seriousness that is unrivalled. :shk

 
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Re: Combatting TA (tackle addiction)
« Reply #1221 on: July 18, 2017, 12:03:54 PM »
Sounds like you need to build a bigger warehouse just to accommodate all the tackle. Just saying.

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Re: Combatting TA (tackle addiction)
« Reply #1222 on: July 18, 2017, 09:19:32 PM »
 :rotfl   Even looking at a bigger house like a 2htc plot or something similar :hnthnt:  but I just cannot afford that right now, there's just waaaaaaaay too much stuff I Still NEED!!!!
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Re: Combatting TA (tackle addiction)
« Reply #1223 on: September 20, 2017, 05:01:55 PM »
Needed 30lb braid for 4 different spools as well as a bit of 50lb... After doing quite a bit of research I decided to give Tasline a try. It arrived in the post today... It feels amazing. Can't wait to test it on an angry fish.
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Re: Combatting TA (tackle addiction)
« Reply #1224 on: September 20, 2017, 06:46:57 PM »
On my recent trip through Miami my BPS account wan't nearly as bad as it normally is when I get to where there is one.


One thing I did get that I struggle to get here is some 1 ounce Punch Weights and some 50lb Seaguar Flipping Braid, hopefully now I can say there's no place where I can't present some worm to a bass :hnthnt:
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Re: Combatting TA (tackle addiction)
« Reply #1225 on: September 22, 2017, 07:13:28 AM »
Sold some tackle .


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Re: Combatting TA (tackle addiction)
« Reply #1226 on: September 22, 2017, 07:46:53 AM »
Needed 30lb braid for 4 different spools as well as a bit of 50lb... After doing quite a bit of research I decided to give Tasline a try. It arrived in the post today... It feels amazing. Can't wait to test it on an angry fish.

This is apparently excellent stuff... keep us posted as to how it performs.

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Re: Combatting TA (tackle addiction)
« Reply #1227 on: September 22, 2017, 07:48:03 AM »
On my recent trip through Miami my BPS account wan't nearly as bad as it normally is when I get to where there is one.




That's because half the shop was probably blown away by a hurricane, or didn't you notice?  :hehe:

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Re: Combatting TA (tackle addiction)
« Reply #1228 on: September 22, 2017, 10:03:42 AM »
Needed 30lb braid for 4 different spools as well as a bit of 50lb... After doing quite a bit of research I decided to give Tasline a try. It arrived in the post today... It feels amazing. Can't wait to test it on an angry fish.

This is apparently excellent stuff... keep us posted as to how it performs.


Will do boet... I'll only get to use it next month though. I bought from Busted Fishing in Oz... Great company, good people to deal with. Man that stuff feels like silk  :clwn
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Re: Combatting TA (tackle addiction)
« Reply #1229 on: September 24, 2017, 04:54:32 PM »
On my recent trip through Miami my BPS account wan't nearly as bad as it normally is when I get to where there is one.




That's because half the shop was probably blown away by a hurricane, or didn't you notice?  :hehe:


Some would say I caused the hurricane with the speed I flew through the shelves.... but, I promise the hurricane only got there a week after I left!
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Re: Combatting TA (tackle addiction)
« Reply #1230 on: October 25, 2017, 02:46:55 PM »
Needed 30lb braid for 4 different spools as well as a bit of 50lb... After doing quite a bit of research I decided to give Tasline a try. It arrived in the post today... It feels amazing. Can't wait to test it on an angry fish.

This is apparently excellent stuff... keep us posted as to how it performs.


So having used my 30lb Tasline now, I can honestly say that it's everything it's cracked up to be. I used it at Lazarus Banks on a Saltiga 4000 on my Phenix Blue Diamond. The stuff casts a Continental Mile, gave no grief with wind knots, knotted (FG to 60lb flouro) without failure and was just a pleasure to use. My only failure was about 25 minutes into a tussle with a bus YFT (a fish far better suited to my heavy tackle) when the fish was chased by a shark and it took off at the most blistering pace. The Saltiga literally screamed and the braid snapped in the guides, suggesting that it just got too hot. If that ever happens to me again, I hope I have the presence of mind to straight stick it and slack off the drag till the fish is away from the taxman... Well it's a great theory anyway. But I'm very happy with the Tasline.
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Re: Combatting TA (tackle addiction)
« Reply #1231 on: October 26, 2017, 07:34:55 AM »
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Re: Combatting TA (tackle addiction)
« Reply #1232 on: November 01, 2017, 05:00:41 PM »
Went to Mias in Woodmead yesterday. Bought nothing. Could not even get excited. Am I going through a mid life crisis?

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Re: Combatting TA (tackle addiction)
« Reply #1233 on: November 01, 2017, 07:17:04 PM »
Don't bank on that bud... I went 2 years with no TA whatsoever. I then bliksem'd off the wagon so spectacularly, I'm still in a daze.
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Re: Combatting TA (tackle addiction)
« Reply #1234 on: November 01, 2017, 07:39:39 PM »
Went to Mias in Woodmead yesterday. Bought nothing. Could not even get excited. Am I going through a mid life crisis?

Your TA virus is still incubating... like Martin said just wait till it explodes...
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Re: Combatting TA (tackle addiction)
« Reply #1235 on: November 01, 2017, 07:43:27 PM »
 :hyst: :hyst: true . its like a constant itch builds up and up and eventually you walk out of a tackle shop in a slight daze , but the itch has gone ......for a while .
 

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Re: Combatting TA (tackle addiction)
« Reply #1236 on: November 01, 2017, 09:54:08 PM »
If only..... we could borrow...use...and return  :hehe:

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Re: Combatting TA (tackle addiction)
« Reply #1237 on: November 02, 2017, 09:12:43 AM »
My son has just turned 8 and is seriously into his fishing so now I can buy stuff and pretend its for him  w;k

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Re: Combatting TA (tackle addiction)
« Reply #1238 on: November 02, 2017, 09:31:20 AM »
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Re: Combatting TA (tackle addiction)
« Reply #1239 on: November 03, 2017, 08:45:15 AM »
If only..... we could borrow...use...and NOT return  :hehe:
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