Old Skool Carp Gear

Has anyone got any pics of their old skool carp fishing gear? e.g optonics, monkey climbers etc?

Would be good to see how things have changed!

This was the first Optonic I owned. Cost £30.00 when I got it from a tackle dealer in Stanstead Abbots.

It was a good alarm for its day and worked with a roller wheel which is pretty simialr to how the fox microns still work.

Only control on it was on/off

I so wish I had all my old gear my fav mitchell 300 reels and monkey climbers and full cork rods.
check out what the old mitchells are going for now on eBay!...

blimey.. i had a pair of optonics when i first got into carp fishing!!!

I had a pair with the milk bottle lid conversion

Hi all, newbie here

Spotted this thread straight away as I do some fishing with proper old school gear when I get chance to fish any history water. By "history" I tend to mean any water that came to prominance prior to the 70s so I fish with gear from the 50s and 60s and likewise methods and baits of the same era.

That picture takes me back a bit

what a change to what we use now Love the rod with all that intermidet wipping

great picture,they were the days!!!!!

yep spot on!...

My alarms were black boxes fag packet size-ish that had a yellow or orange needle on to wrap the line around and youd have a line bite and the buzzer wouldn't shut up! ( to )... not great buy but cheap if i remember?
They had a V shape for the rod to sit on one side..

used the old monkey climbers for ages, which where great, might even get some again!!!!

i can rember my first reels where mitchell 300s and my first pod was a jk pod and my alarms where viper alarms

Just found my first carp fishing book I ever got. The Kevin Nash Rig Book from 1987

I was a Nash Whore even back then !

Cost £1.40 and its still in mint condition

ECB wrote:great picture,they were the days!!!!!

Were the days??

These were taken yesterday..