Hi raiders, after all this talk about vintage Alveys I though it would be great to have a bit of show & tell thread about them.
I continually read on here members asking questions about them or other members giving suggestion for different fishing applications so there must be something to them right!
So show us your Alvey's whether its a strictly stays in the display cabinet reel or where in current use smashing up some Aussie salmon or jews off the beach & what your favourite moment was fishing with them.
For me my association with Alvey is from fishing long ago with dad off the beaches north & south of Sydney, or when he was fishing for Luderick off the breakwall of Nelson Bay, pretty much an Alvey's in his hand if he had a line in the water.
While I used them on occasions I was more of a spinning reel guy
I actually threw one of dads rod into the surf when I was about 6 years old, He was down the beach with another set rod & I pulled the rod out of the holder & walked up to the rolling surf & tried to cast it but threw the whole rod into the water. I can still see him running up the beach waving & yelling at mum , of course I see it slow motion 🤣
He jumped into save it but couldn't find it, he was devastated & pretty angry at the same time.........…………...as you would be 🥺
Basically I inherited dads gear when we had to move him into a nursing home, there is something about looking at a lifetime of accumulating/collecting/hording fishing gear of all sorts, including things like Japanese roped glass buoy's to vintage sinker making gear, even unopened packets of hooks & tackle going back to the 1940/50's era.
Anyway I will have to look through some photo albums to see if there is any of him casting from his favourite Alvey's but for now I'll start it of here with is just a couple from his collection,
This picture even show's a few of the floats made from wood & cork for the Luderick he would hand make.
Will post move as we go,
Cheers
Adrian