Poles for Big fish shallow

keith · #1 (**permalink**) 28th September 2006, 10:24 PM

I am currently looking to replace my old pole, a maver powerlite original. Nothing wrong with strengh but can be cumbersome over 13m.

What I require is a pole capable of handling big carp upto 18lb which can be caught regularly shallow at lengths over 13m. I have narrowed my search done to

A tourney pro
A Power legion
Garbolino G force power.

Options 2 and 3 are supposed to be power poles so should cope well enough but not sure on option 1.

The later two are also a lot cheaper and would leave money spare for top kits.

What are your thoughts????????

mike herrington · #2 (**permalink**) 29th September 2006, 06:58 AM

Keith, the tourney pro is deffo up to the job. Alot of people use them at Viaduct where there are some big fish, with lots in the 8 - 12lb bracket. My mate was told by the local oik's to put vespe elastic through only 1/2 of his top kit, with the rest braided up. He had them to 14lb doing that.

My choice tho' would be the G force power. A mate of mine has one, on one occasion, he was getting done on 8lb maxima, but didn't have a care in the world. With the cost savind, you could buy a good few top kits. For the Gforce, you can buy super power kits.

Hope this helps.

growler · #3 (**permalink**) 29th September 2006, 07:08 AM

Just take the no 1 section out of the tourny pro and you could put a rope in it