Fishing Tackle - Non angling use !!

**JWL** · 18-03-2008, 18:07

What use has anyone seen fishing tackle been put to apart from angling purposes?

Heard of a fella that uses his shakespeare box as a paint tray for his roller while painting his house.

Cutting your toenails with your mustad scizzors does not count.

**danezie** · 18-03-2008, 18:27

at work we use 8oz leads to put down ducting to thread through rope.. then pull cable..

and used half my rod as a extension pole when painting the building at work, got me the extra few feet above me where i couldnt reach on a ladder

**Ian Houlton** · 18-03-2008, 18:31

Mighty brite reflective rod tape on my gate posts to help me see when reversing in.

**seafish40** · 18-03-2008, 18:46

5oz lead and 60lb green shock leader use it
as a plumb line when papering landings
the green leader shows up great on a long
drop

**tony1412fishing** · 18-03-2008, 18:55

40lb line around the pond as a tripping hazard to scare off herons, and it works

**Bootster** · 18-03-2008, 19:12

I've heard of people using carbon rods as lightening conductors, not tried it myself though!

**chris grace** · 18-03-2008, 19:23

I know a bloke who uses an abu 7000 for flying his kite!!

**STAN M** · 18-03-2008, 19:50

I`ve been told by a Met Officer that the tip sections of Nemesis are used in the Cairngorm high up to mount ice sensitive monitoring instruments. The sway of the tip in the high wind stops the ice forming apparently.

**David Caulfield** · 19-03-2008, 09:41

Whether this sounds believable or not, it is all true.

We have an International 130ST (the BIG gold one) with the British Antartic Expedition for use with weather balloons

We have a Senator reel with a Norwegian experimental team, ready to go to the ISS, to allow exercise in space - the reel providing constant resistance for use in a climbing wall experiment. Been in testing underwater for 2 years now.

We have a GTI reel with Qinetic pending their balloon altitude record - will be used for deploying a series of instruments attached to the base of the capsule of a circling "model plane"

Oh, and I undersand that there are a few reels out there actually been used for fishing !