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TACKLE SHOPS

EVERY sportfisher has a local tackle shop. I can remember growing up in Sydney in the ‘70s and ‘80s and haunting Arthur Chapman’s and Jim Mitchell’s in Rockdale and Hurstville as a teenager. Then Bluefin Sports opened up in Hurstville and was a mecca for sport fishermen. They catered for game and sportfishing with Silaflex, Ironglass and Sabre blanks and the latest and greatest in reels, lures and line. I bought a complete set of Shakespeare Blue threadlines there along with Penn Senators and ABU

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