UK FISHING FORUMS

ok thanx for the advice stotty, thos reels look good but you seem to be a firm beleiver in diawa so im going to take your advice and get them ill keep you imformed on how they turn out. like you said i also think that the diawas will last me longer and as im reely into fishing now its not worth spending more money to upgrade after. thanks

george

G30RG3 wrote:ok thanx for the advice stotty, thos reels look good but you seem to be a firm beleiver in diawa so im going to take your advice and get them ill keep you imformed on how they turn out. like you said i also think that the diawas will last me longer and as im reely into fishing now its not worth spending more money to upgrade after. thanks

george

Good on you a quality make will last years you get what you pay for my gear is quite old now but it was the best I could afford at the time and i'm still pulling fish in on it to this day.

so after all of that i ended up getting the diawa regals lol as they didnt have the evos and i would have to pay the extra money for the bite n run thing it seemed like a good choice to make.
there extremely smooth and tonns better than even the wychword exorsist i thought and that was an extra 30 pound, i got 2 regals for 35 pound each and 1 diawa emblem ( i think) but its a very good reel i got it preowned for a 10er even though it was priced 37 pound at the time, its the old version but still very good and barly any scraches at all.
i also bought a fox warrior spod rod which is a pretty good looking rod, a diawa infinity bedchair, umbeleiveably light .
and finally a jcr 1 man sti bivvy which was the only let down, i got it out and for some reason it looks crap, the groundsheet is too small, the bag that u get it in is tiny and the intructions are s**t!! i dont know if i just got a duff model or what, but ill probaly swap it for a chub cyfish+ 1 man tomoro.

G30RG3 wrote:
and finally a jcr 1 man sti bivvy which was the only let down, i got it out and for some reason it looks crap, the groundsheet is too small, the bag that u get it in is tiny and the intructions are s**t!! i dont know if i just got a duff model or what

One or two (maybe three by now!) have the 2 man version of that bivvy and they are great! They go up in about 5Min's and have plenty of room. The ground sheet is attached to the skirt of the bivvy with Velcro on the 2 man version so it could be that you just need to move it about a bit to get it to fit! You don't need the instructions. You just lay it out on the ground, fit the poles together, peg the back down then pull up the front like a pram hood! Then you peg the door sides down and work you way around to the back with the pegs. Then put the support pole through and throw over your second skin (if you have that model!) Then peg that down too. All done!

so do i now

well i now realised that i put it up wrong, i found that out today, would you say its better than the chub cyfish??