Shakespeare Cypry Quiver
January 2000. I have been thinking over the last few weeks, whether a rucksack and quiver would be a better way for me transport my gear, rather than using my trolley and a rod holdall. The reason for the concern is due to the Osteo-arthritis that I have in both knees. I have found that pulling the trolley over rough muddy fields to be very hard work, and damaging to my knees.
I was looking in one of my local tackle shops when I saw a large selection of quivers. This seemed to me to be a way of carrying a lot of my gear, in a relatively simple way. There was quivers by all of the "names", at varying prices. I settled for the Shakespeare quiver, with the logo "cypry" on it. The workmanship looked to be good, the materials robust, and at the asking price of just £25-00, seemed to be a real bargain.
I have been using the quiver over the last month and it appears to be able to do the job well. I carry the 2 carp/pike rods already made up and banded in the outside rod retainers. There is in fact places for 3 rods. The butts of the rods slide down into material pockets. There is a central fitting restraining strap, and a top padded strap to secure the higher section of the rods. The top strap has 3 press studs and a buckle. The only problem that I have at the moment, is that the 3 press studs are very hard to push home. This will obviously get easier as they are used more and more. With the rods secured, I put 2 short rods rests, complete with the fitted bite alarms (in their plastic protection cases) into the smaller of the 2 zipped and buckled outside pockets, bite alarms towards the bottom of the quiver. This is so that the pointed ends of the rod rests do not try and poke a way through the material. In the same pocket I put the 2 monkey climbers. In the larger of the 2 outer pockets, I put the 2 longer bank sticks, and the two Twistiks, also upside down, and the folded landing net. In the large central pocket, I roll up my unhooking mat (length ways), and down the centre of this I put the brolly and the landing net handle. All safe and secure, the quiver is slung over a shoulder. Once over the shoulder it feels very comfortable., and there is no problem at all in carrying it. The only addition I would like to see on the quiver would be a cover that could be pulled down and tightened so that when it is belting down, the quiver is not inclined to take on too much water.
August 2004. I am pleased to say that this quiver is still alive and well and carries all of my rods, storm poles and bank sticks and the Evo.
June 2005. The quiver is still going strong and apart from one missing press stud on the top retainer for the rods, everything is still fine. There is the first sign of some rust starting to show on some of the metal fittings, but I see no reason to change it for something newer.
