long poles

trout_mask_replica · #1

Reminiscing about the early Maver poles on "All our yesterdays",got me thinking about the ones i've owned
over the years.........
1.Garboline(think) 8m half composite/half fiberglass bannana
2.Pezon et michelle 12m
3.Shimano 12.5m AX
4.maver thema 11 or 12m(?)
5.Maleve stream light 12.5m
6.Future Gladiator 14.5m
7.Tiana Secret weapon 14.5m
8.Triana Potenza 14.5m
9.Maver K31 16m
10.Maver 371 16m
11.Tri-cast Finesse 16m
Looking back also got me wondering did the early U.K.
poles like the olympics ect ever get advertised in yards
& feet

and if not,why not

What did you lot have over the years????

#2

Good thread T M R

I'll have to get a pen and paper out first for this one

#3

First pole wasnt that long.........if you held it you'd know why

Bought it in 1976 from Bentley Bait. It was a 5.8mtr shakespeare jobbie.........complete with a couple of crooks

It was that heavy and what a diameter on it = the butt section wasnt far off a drainpipe

- ended up making a landing net handle out of the 'top3'

trout_mask_replica · #4

complete with a couple of crooks

shoplifters?

chavey · #5

1. brown fibreglass telescopic Daiwa 6M
2. Steadfast Albatros- black glass 8M
3.Tricast challenger (my first carbon pole) 10M
3.Daiwa whisker pro 11M
4.Browning Ivan Marks spiro pro 12M
5.Shimano TPGT 14M
6.Tricast finesse 14.7M
7. Triana 2540 14.5M x 2
8. Milo 1010 14.5M
9.Milo 777 14.5M
10.Lerc 8001 16M
11.Lerc 9151 16M
12. Daiwa spectron 16M x 2
13. Garbolino G995 17.5M x2 ( my current poles)

#6

My first pole was a bamboo crappity smack

Can't remember how many sections but it was either 15 feet or 18 feet; I think I had the shorter variety.
The tip used to bend like crappity smack with an ounce roach on.

They were for fishing long line; don't think we twigged on that short lining was possible in those days.

They were heavy

trout_mask_replica · #7

Do you still have it Bill? Or did a panda eat it

#8

1 Silstar 9m job
2 daiwa 12 m(tpp120)
3 Maver jurrasic
4 daiwa 711 i think
5 daiwa 510 i think
6 daiwa spectron
current Garbalino super g10 (Awsome)

#9

Do you still have it Bill? Or did a panda eat it

If I remember right I grew some beans up the crappity smack

If I remember right they were not varnished and supplied with a red thread loop already tied to the tip.

I spotted a rod in a pet shop in Stafford when I was a kid. It really was a flash bit of gear. It had a solid wooden butt and was nigh on impossible to carry around, it was that heavy. It cost £2 10 shillings (£2.50) in those days, - it would probably be a lot cheaper now, - you could hardly lift the crappity smack up

joffmiester · #10

garbolino lerc
matt green vrc or something
shimano something with the laggy on the outside
second had dawia
second hand dawia the next model
brand spanking new tournament

sensas from then on 744,764 and now 774 which is the best pole i've had
the amount of extra sections you can get short 4,5,6,,11,13
i did have a set of tricast whips upto 6 metres

#11

I can't remember all the poles I've had. I have a few now but almost exclusively use the Fox Envoy. I bought this not long after they come out. For some reason or other the carbon joints tend to wear at a much lesser rate than other poles.
I had a pole once and actually broke a section on one stalk of spikey grass (no prizes for guesssing the make).
Anyway the only sections I have had to replace on my Fox are through breakages, (my own fault).
I admit to being a tackle tart and there is something wrong if it doesn't get a good clean every week; they last much longer doing this.
OK it was expensive but I do lots of fishing and it really still does look like new. Some of my team mates have got through four since I have had this one!
I also use it in Ireland without any problems whatsoever.

It was Roberto Nuddillo that said I was the biggest tackle tart he had ever seen

Having said all that I'll probably bost the crappity smack at the weekend

#12

the Fox Envoy

I think if more shops had these in Bill a lot would be sold, i've not seen the new version but the old 1 is superb

Guest · #13

Lads, do we look back at the old poles with rose tinted glasses?????? I remember the first proper pole I ever owned and thought it was the Dogs B+#S. I’ve still got the but section and you could stand on it and it wouldn’t mind.

Anyway, here goes.

6ft tank aerial from the scrap yard. ( thought it was a brill gudgeon Whip)
Milo Carboron 14mtr
Browning Legend Ceramic ??? 14mtr
Shakespear Superteam 14mtr( Brill pole)
Maver 301 The Green Dream 16mtr????
Maver C51 16mtr (Absolutely fantastic pole best small fish pole ever used)
Browning 910 club France 17.5mtr
Colmic 3500 16mtr
Diawa torny pro 16mtr
Fox Envoy Elite 16mtr ( best all round pole ever used )

#14

I think if more shops had these in Bill a lot would be sold, i've not seen the new version but the old 1 is superb

I drew next to Roberto Nuddilus in Ireland in September. The only difference excepting for the colour, was that his Envoy caught more fish than mine

The joints do have a 'stengthening' coat on the joints on the gold one but I've never had a problem on thast score anyway. Top pole matey, well worth the investment.
Even Rocco liked mine; that is until the cost was mentioned then the Kleenex

came out followed by the Andrex!

joffmiester · #15

my first real rod was made of metal with two tips i'm sure that was called apollo

#16

my first real rod was made of metal with two tips i'm sure that was called apollo

I think they were made from tank aerials Joff

joffmiester · #17

i didn't know until my brother sat on it

all ends well as i was given a persuader 4 piece rod after that

and a hardy 14ft float rod

#18

Shimano 11mtr mega heavy crappity smack
Another Shimano thing
Shakespeare 11mtr mega heavy crappity smack
Silstar even heavier 11mtr heavy crappity smack
Garbolino 11mtr slim and wobbly as crappity smack thing
D.A.M Millenium 12.5mtr (nice canal pole)
Daiwa 711 top pole for the money, very light and super strong
Daiwa Connesseur Ultra 16mtr another top pole for under a grand
Sensas 774 16mtr

#19

I'm still working mine out

#20

Just thought..............

I have a Shimano Solstace 12.5m bagging pole. Very rarely been used and not a scratch on it.
Anyone remember them, they must be a few years old now.