cool! are there 8 of them?

Yeah. Beautiful aren't they ?!

surely they are!

Thanks.

those my friend are a beautiful work of art!

Thanks, I have collected them. The richard walker one says my own name on it richard mccarthy.

Do you still use them? I gave a split cane rod away as it was rather stiff to use. I don't collect but wish that I had kept some of my fathers fishing gears.

wow very nice i wwas going to get one once but i decided not to but now i kinda wished i did.

Yea they are nice.

the one i was looking at didnt have a reel and you had to toss the hook out

You mean a pole, I Don't like pole fishing. I only use rods now.

idk whats the difference i dont know the names of all the equipment.

Well a rod has a reel, and a pole is always around 10 metres long so you just put it out instead of casting.

yeah i think it was like that im not so sure i guess it was a rod.

I doubt that a rod has to have a reel on it to function.

once i tried fishing with just a line and a lure

Hand lining.

yeah it fun but you gotta be careful to not get tangled up.

You have to do it on a boat.  It's not effective on the bank. But I prefer to have a rod anyway.

yeah i had to wind it out a lot just to get it from the shore to the center of the lake. i swung it pretty hard lol

haha, the world record for the longest cast is 277m in case you ever feel like you want to go for it, lol. I can do about 90m.

idk how long i did im not good at estimating distance by just looking. thats would be a cool challenge though 277 is probly as good as a rod

Yeah, John Wilson did about 267m. I am good at estimating distances.

lucky that comes in extremly handy in golf.

I used to play a lot of golf, from being 10 to 13.

nice

But not now. What about u ??

no me niether never been able to go

why is that.

idk for some odd reason ive just never gone but i do go out in an open field and hit the golf balls. sometimes i pretend im on a course

I see.

yeah

My grandad always finds loads of golf balls lol, I don't how he does it everywhere he does he's "another golf ball", haha.

lol wow lucky him free golf balls for life.

Yeah man, I have loads of golf balls of what my grandads found. I have never ever bought a golf ball in my life, because my grandad can just go out and find them !

wow thats so cool

Excellent if i must say....

yes very excellent

I wouldn't be surprised if he pulled one from behind my ear, lol.

lol if you hold him upside down and shake him youd probly find a pile of golf balls lol.  thats not very nice though

Nah, he just finds them by chance. I have found some but not as many as my grandad.

lol he probly finds a dozen a day

When we go out side.

thats really cool. my uncle used to find tons of arrowheads

Haha nice.

yeah.

Which do u like the most from these rods ?

i like 18 or the next to last

The multiple.

yeah

Yes that's a good rod.

yeah it looks nice too

Yeah it's rather posh.

very nice

I love the color.

yeah how much weight can it take

The boat rod end, will take a great amount, the beachcasterwill also take a lot of weight too, but I am not sure because in the old days with split cane sea rods of that caliber they didn't put how much strain it can take on it. They might of said at the shop but that's a very long time ago because it's 65 years old now. My step dads mate had to fix it once though because when I casted with it once it snapped off at the furrle.

thats not good but at least it got fixed

If u click on the end sections u will see were it was glued.

oh. i dont think that it can take much weight after that. do you still fish with it?

Yea I still fish with. It's just as strong as it was before it broke ! It was resealed underneath.

oh ok

Indeed.

blip

blip, what the juice.

apple juice? lol

Noo, peach juice.

mmmm peach juice is good

I drink it at the track.

lucky. do you bring your own or do they give it too you?

I bring my own. Everyone drinks there own special drink !

oh ok. i like using powerade.

Do u do running ? Powerade is what I used until I discovered the strength of peach juice !

yeah just to move around though not competetively like you do. wooh! PEACH JUICE FTW!

Peach juice all the way. Thanks to Mr. Fairclough for telling me about it !!!! Do you do long distance to keep your self fit ? Or sprint ?

long distance running i usually go around 8 miles.

Oh that's completely different ! Sprinting is actually meant to be the hardest, and the most dangerous according to the coaches. As I have also found out ! Because you're using all your power to go forwards were as in distance you can pace yourself.

yeah sprinting wears out your energy quickest. if you tried to sprint full power 8 miles youd probly die. sprinting is like drag racing where as marathon running is more like nascar.

It isn't possible. After 300m of pure sprinting you drop speed. Yeah, once I did 6 miles. But I don't like distance that much because I'm faster than most people at a short distance.

quick on the start eh?

Yes, I am the fastest off the blocks at my club, but there are some people who are fast enough to catch me up after about 40 metres.

then you can beat them at 40m. back then everyone was faster than me at long runs but i always got the fast people on the 40m sprint.

Yeah I was once timed at 40 yards and got 4.20 seconds.

cool thats almost 10 yards per second

Yeah, did you get a time for the 40 yard ?

no

Okay. Darrell Greene got 4.09 for the NFL.

cool

He's pretty quick, lol. Kevin Levrone got 4.10.

remeber running at the speed of sound lol. instead of 400 metres youd sprint 400 miles. it would be almost impossible to watch that with you own eyes.

Yeah, Walter Dix got timed at 3.75 seconds for the 40 yard dash. Which is the fastest ever timed.

omfg i never knew that was possible. you should try for that time lol.

I know it's very fast. It's on youtube.

sheesh thats insane. how fast are you at the 40?

Remember 4.20.

oh ok just .10 less than the other guy. do you think you might be able to top that?

I will be at my fastest in another 10 years, so yeah I think I stand a good chance. Kevin Levrone is huge. He's 5'9" and weighs 275 lbs.

wow how does he lug around his big gut that fast?

Eh, lol. No it's muscle he doesn't have any fat.

lucky hes a 275 pound chunk of muscle

Lol, sounds about right.

dang. you could make alot of steaks out of him lol.

Haha, yeah.

No in fact you might get poisoned because he takes huge amounts of steroids.

cool

lol.

so is he a sprinter or what?

No he's a body builder, lol.

is steriods allowed in body building?

Yeah, but not in sprinting !

oh. he probly takes alot of steroids i bet his balls are almost microscopic by now.

Haha not sure about that. If I was to race against him I would use leroy burrels trick on him....

which is?

Put you're hand in the running lane next to you ! It's not aloud, but he did it in 1992 !

if you do that and its not allowed then wont the other guy just win?

No he got away with it !

lol so when he got away with it did the guy think he wouldnt and delayed on the start?

probably. I am surprised they didn't call a false start myself. If you want to see what it looked like here's the race he did it in the camera man zooms in on it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHMEvmoNQSY