Always interesting to follow up….you’re welcome. I loved his programmes as a kid, there wasn’t much fishing on TV then and I was a bit obsessed. He was also the inspiration for ‘coughing’ Bob Fleming on the Fast Show (Paul Whitehouse being a very keen angler who’d watched the programmes years ago).
They’re film reels, nothing to do with fishing line. Seems as though he had a collection of films he edited to use clips in his own programmes that were filmed in the famous shed - maybe that’s what they are :shrug:
From Wiki :
Hargreaves had worked with Steve Wade on How before Southern...