Fishing Victoria Forum

Haha i would of only been 5 or so, but yep old potato sacks is what we used as kids. Tell ya what though it sure made me greatful of my first proper sleeping bag!

Sounds like our dads would of got along! The old tackle box's even all have the same smell, dont think dad had many shop bought lures or spinners, dad n grandad always made there own from old coins or spoons. I also have there old camping and hunting gear, no led lights! I use an old kero lantern an...

:-D Fair enough, though not too many carp around when I started. And never saw anyone back wind ever :-D What some may not know is that there were some decent reels with actual decent drags years ago. No, I know everyone likes to think that today is the ants pants and nobody had a hope of getting g...

Waders $3.98 haha i could afford to buy 2 pairs and the wife would have no idea

I still have my old Flexon fibre glass surf rod from the early 70's from Coles. I once got a Ryobi overhead reel around the same time from McEwans hardware store. Was a good reel too. That went yrs ago in a garage sale though. IMG_20190118_164352.jpg Wow yours looks a lot better condition than mine...

I still have my old Flexon fibre glass surf rod from the early 70's from Coles. I once got a Ryobi overhead reel around the same time from McEwans hardware store. Was a good reel too. That went yrs ago in a garage sale though. IMG_20190118_164352.jpg Wow yours looks a lot better condition than mine...

4liters wrote:Maybe drop this guy a line and see if he can give you any info: https://australianfishingmuseum.com/

Looks like his specialty is reels but I'd be surprised if he hasn't picked up a bit of knowledge about rods over the course

Ok thank you very much, ill check it out shortly.

Hi everyone, i had to join this forum to see if anyone knows of this rod, i cant find any info on it at all apart from 1 that was for sale a few years back, it says its made in Australia for coles store's and the brand is flexon, the reel is an old alpha reel. Any ideas on its age? Thanks everyone P...