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Situated in Stretford, Manchester, repairs, breaks, custom rod builds and refurbs, all done to a professional standard. Please call or text to arrange a day to drop work off with me, I work from home. Ex Trafford Angling customers may know me as ' Dave ' ;)
Payments by cash, or PayPal. Whether it's a Free Spirit or your old split cane rod that you can't bear to part with, a pole section that's
16/04/2026
Follow up post from a couple of weeks back where I'd just started building another couple of swingtip rods - this is one of the finished Silverfish swingtip rods - a lovely light grey and metallic blue colour scheme - just about to list it on the website so give me a shout if you're interested ! Cheers. Dave
https://www.swingtip.fishing/swingtip-rods/
04/04/2026
Start to - nearly finished - shots of two fly rods that I've put new handles on, as the original slim handles were getting a bit uncomfortable to use, due to the chap having arthritis in his hands, so gripping a chunkier cork handle, turned from 31.5mm diameter corks, down to about 29.5/30mm, is a lot more comfortable than the old handles which were about 25/26mm at most. Hopefully this makes life a little easier and he can carry on chucking that fluff into his 80's and 90's ! 🥳😁👍🍻
12/02/2026
One of my customers that had two of my intermediate swing tip rods built, to colour match his Daiwa reels, recently sent me a really nice message, letting me know how pleased he was with the rods, and a few pics to show me his set up.
Very nice looking set up if I don't mind saying myself! 🥳🍻👍
Strip down, repair and service on a Daiwa Infinity BR reel. The audible clicker that makes the noise when the baitrunner's spinning away wasn't working. This is fairly common, easy enough to repair and considering the reel hadn't been opened for about 16 years, not surprising !
07/02/2026
Conversion on a Daiwa 123m closed face reel from plastic bushes to 2 stainless steel ball bearings. The 125m can also have the same conversion done, but not the original Daiwa 120m .
07/02/2026
The start of the strip down to put new handles on a set of Horizon X5's. This is why a lot of rod builders don't want to do mods and repairs, all the stripping down, and then cleaning up, to get you to the point where you can actually start !
04/12/2025
Mystery solved! Pete Hodgkinson is alive and well, on holiday, and apparently not receiving calls or texts ! Thanks to all that asked about for me, he's been in touch this morning ! 🥳🍻👍
29/11/2025
It was a long slog on this very gritty TS5000T with several screws and parts seized up, but I got there in the end !
Bit of a long shot but I'm trying to get hold of a guy called Peter Hodgkinson that goes fishing, he left a rod with me a while back and I can't get hold of him by call/voicemail, text or whatsapp !
If anyone knows him and can enlighten me as to if he's OK, in hospital or abroad can you let me know please !
Thank you . Dave 👍
Just a quick post and a short video to show off the finest silver fish swing tip rods currently made in the U.K. 😍😜😁
A new quick video ! Line guard issues this time instead of servicing, as people regularly get into trouble when they've taken off the spools and line guards - don't forget there may be more washer than shown on this video, so lay them out on a table top as you take them off ! Enjoy, and if you can give my Youtube channel a like and subscribe, I'll be a happy chappy :)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUeOKAa4gtF6P8c09J1Zx4Q
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