This isn't the first time this has happened and I can only deduce that there must be a Bermuda Rig Triangle where all my missing pole rigs have vanished to. Come to think of it, it's probably where my 100 or so lovingly tied light pellet hooklengths disappeared last year too... grrr!
Jon Arthur
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