15% off everything at Veals Mail Order today (be strong and resist like me?!)

I’m on the mailing list for Veals Mail Order and an email came through early yesterday evening to say that for today only - Black Friday - there is 15% off everything on their rather extensive website. If you want to take advantage of this, you need to use the code BF22 when you come to checkout. If you use any of the links in today’s blog post then I will pick up a little bit via affiliate links - it doesn’t cost you anymore by the way - but if you would rather not do that you need to shut this page down and go to the VMO website independently of me. Do this and the software won’t register that you have come through me and my links. You know that I always put a disclaimer at the end of any blog post with affiliate links in. I would far rather you know the ins and outs so you can make your own mind up, and as always I would urge you to use your local tackle shop whenever possible…………..

You know how weak I am around nice shiny lure fishing tackle, but there are a few items I am either fishing with myself or which look really interesting that 15% makes a whole lot more interesting to me. It probably comes as no surprise that the Penn Authority spinning reels are going to be my “money no object” reels of the year when I come to those Gear of the Year blog posts (I can’t get enough of fishing with these things), but 15% off makes what are very expensive reels seem a bit more achievable to me. If you are fishing with a Shimano Stradic then you don’t really need a Stella, and if you are fishing with a Penn Slammer then you don’t really need an Authority - for bass fishing I might add - but many of us are way beyond those simple issues. Want and need have become a perennial problem for me around lure fishing tackle. If my maths is correct then today the outstanding Penn Authority 2500 is about £366, and the larger Authority 3500 is £391. Help. Oh, and the mighty Penn Slammer IV 2500 is about £146 today which is almost a joke, and the slightly larger Slammer IV 3500 is about £187 today.

I know absolutely nothing about the new Shimano Miravel spinning reels save for a few YouTube videos and the fact that a brand new range of very much sub-£150 Shimano spinning reels is something to get excited about with how much technology seems to keep coming down from their more expensive reels. I am a sucker for the handle design on the Miravel C5000 (same size as a Shimano 4000 but with a higher capacity spool), and by my reckoning that reel is only £102 today, as are all of them in fact. If it’s out of stock when you come to read this then you know who has bought them all!

15% off a lure rod which I so often turn to now because it fits in so well with a lot of my bass and indeed wrasse fishing is perhaps my buy of the day with how much I love this thing. The Savage Gear SGS6 8’3’’ 12-42g lure rod is just awesome - review here - and I am so, so glad I stumbled across it earlier this year. Yes I can get hold of the rod for nothing because of my work with Savage Gear, but nobody within the company thought let’s send these rods to Henry to see if he likes them. As I said, I literally stumbled upon it. The lighter and equally sublime SGS6 8’3’’ 7-25g is another rod I have been fishing with in estuaries especially - review to come, I bloody love it - and both rods today are £183, which to me is almost a joke with how good these things are.

I am still debating what my soft plastic lure of the year is going to be, and especially with the new, smaller size Gravity Sticks hitting the market, but the new Slender Scoop Shad has turned out to be a lethal bass fishing lure. As above with the SGS6 rods, it was something I stumbled upon because nobody within Savage Gear saw these things as bass lures when they were developing them. The more I fish with them, the more I like them, and the more I learn about how much of a subtly different option they are to my Gravity Sticks. Yep, I usually carry both these days because of those different options they give me. I know that 15% off smaller items like soft plastics ain’t exactly going to change the world, but damn these things work.

The brand new Major Craft Crosride 5G XR5-942ML/LSJ 9’4’’ 15-40g lure rod that I reviewed the other day at £259.99 is down to £221 for today - review here. I so wish that a whole heap of lure anglers could get to fish with this rod because I know how well it would sit with people. Such an easy rod to like, and even at the full price it’s a hell of a lot of rod for the money.

And if you go to my Fishing Tackle page, anything there with a link to Veals Mail Order will be 15% cheaper today if you remember to use the code BF22 when you get to the checkout. Be controlled though, just like me! You all have a good weekend and may you be finding some fishable water somewhere. If you do, please send some my way……………

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