Tournament Pro, gets my vote as best ever. Closely followed by Spectron Comp. Both poles have been around for years and I reckon will be around for many more and have both proved themselves over and over again.

Shimano Diaflash IIRC ? Tri Cast pole back in the day? Browning Red Spiral Titanum?

I have not had a lot of poles but seen a few, my TPRO is about as good as any I have seen, for sure stronger than the G10. Not had a wiggle of an Airity. I guess for lightness,stiffness,strength it’s going to be hard to beat

Dawa Harrier HHP and Daiwa Tournament X (original) for me. Both light years ahead of the competition in their day.

Maver K47.

Think it was the first to employee fusion kits.
Tapered sections which improved shipping back and it also had a grey suncore finish which stopped the carbon getting too hot when sunny.

Browning Red Spiral Titanum and the Maver Super Litium 201 was a superb pole. Both were strong and the Maver was incredibly thin at 14.5m which I used to fish it at occasionally. It was relatively heavy of course. Doesn’t compare with modern poles for lightness of course but at the time it was the dogs.

For the older poles i,d say.
futron
mactron
quartzlite
xrs
powermaxim

another vote for the spectron comp.i still have mine in the loft and couldn’t bear to part with it.

my top 5 would be spiral red titanium, quartzlite, power maxim. spectron and browning z9.I must admit I still use the spectron today and it’s not out of place on the bank and still cuts the mustard just about

I see the Quartzlite has been mentioned a couple of times,but the better pole was the Triana 2540,same mandrel but much stronger!
Tourny x has gotta be up there,at the same time the Triana Grande Slam 7000 & Future Extreme were awsome & compared favourably.Agree with the Tourny Pro & Spectron,top poles & no vast improvement,since.

How does the following sound
John Paul II
Artur boruc (The holy Goalie) ex Celtic
Lech Walesa Solidarity leader
Zbigniew Brzezinski – US national security advisor in 70s and 80s
Jozef Pilsudski – led poland to independence in early 20th century and prevented lenin invading Western Europe

@Perchie wrote:

How does the following sound
John Paul II
Artur boruc (The holy Goalie) ex Celtic
Lech Walesa Solidarity leader
Zbigniew Brzezinski – US national security advisor in 70s and 80s
Jozef Pilsudski – led poland to independence in early 20th century and prevented lenin invading Western Europe

Some would argue Jersey Dudek !

In no particular order:

Original Shimano diaflash
Original Shakespeare Superteam
Maver Medussa
Daiwa Tournament Pro
Tricast XRS

All leaders in their era.

Gotta add Zbigniew Boniek, Juventus legend.

Perchie wrote:-

How does the following sound
John Paul II
Artur boruc (The holy Goalie) ex Celtic
Lech Walesa Solidarity leader
Zbigniew Brzezinski – US national security advisor in 70s and 80s
Jozef Pilsudski – led poland to independence in early 20th century and prevented lenin invading Western Europe

Simon seen your reply, classic case of cabin fever mate!!

The early Mavers were great silver fish poles even if they turn to dust easily.I still use my E51 sometimes. At the other end of the scale the original purple xrs has to be a beasting classic…still use that to on snaggy swims with big carp as a margin pole and power gum combo.What about rods though ? Try and find a new rod that will go down to 0.8 easliy like the top of the range rods of the late 80’s early nineties.Carp influance obviously.My vote would go to the original Drennan 12ft Crystalite and the original blue ultegra responce 13ft. I wish i could of found another one of those rather that the poker stiff Rive ultra light i shelled out for in haste !

Tournament X
Amourphous Tournament
Shimano Super Ultegra
Garbolino Magic Ace
Tri-Cast Sovereign

inky mate,the daiwa tournament 13-15ft is perfect for light hooklengths.i regularly use .08 when fishing the slider or bolo on the don.

Drennan Logic would be in my top 5, it was probably the first pole with a proper spares package ie spare top kits, cupping kit, bushes and skid bungs. I think it changed the way companies sold pole packages. It was also good to fish with for silvers and carp!

best polo ever

daiwa tournament 710 – bloody awesome !!!!

Cheers ioda, i was hoping someone would come up with a useful lead. I just need a pay rise or really really good excuse/lie/hiding place.

Original Maver Jurrasic carp

@Perchie wrote:

How does the following sound
John Paul II
Artur boruc (The holy Goalie) ex Celtic
Lech Walesa Solidarity leader
Zbigniew Brzezinski – US national security advisor in 70s and 80s
Jozef Pilsudski – led poland to independence in early 20th century and prevented lenin invading Western Europe

~clap ~clap ~clap ~clap ~clap

Del-boy

@Del-boy wrote:

@Perchie wrote:

How does the following sound
John Paul II
Artur boruc (The holy Goalie) ex Celtic
Lech Walesa Solidarity leader
Zbigniew Brzezinski – US national security advisor in 70s and 80s
Jozef Pilsudski – led poland to independence in early 20th century and prevented lenin invading Western Europe

~clap ~clap ~clap ~clap ~clap

Del-boy

Mariusz Pudzianowski – 5 x worlds stongest man

At the time of introduction to modern times:

Red Browning Spiral Titanium

Daiwa Amorphous Whisker

Shimano Super Ultegra

Milo 10-10

Daiwa Tournament Pro

All the above poles set the standard for other manufacturers to beat

Ive had a good few top end poles, but the one that puts a smile on my face every time it comes out is my power maxim, ave it!

Ive had a good few top end poles, but the one that puts a smile on my face every time it comes out is my power maxim, ave it!

Spectron Comp is without THE best of all time!!!Especially when shallow fishing for F1s AWESOME…..

A second effort:

John Paul II (1920-2005)
Lech Walesa
Boleslaus the Brave (c. 967-1025)
Fryderyk Chopin
Roman Polanski

Nice one Perchie,
Hmmm- Geeps-deffo not JP 2- famous and uncritically popular perhaps- but his actual papacy,edicts, conservatism and repression of dissent and modern thinking and legacy will not be favourably viewed by history ,imo.

Miesko 1

Casmir 111(‘progressive monarch -if there ever was such a thing-protected and allowed jewish rights)

Wladyslaw II Jagiello(polish-lithuanian union)

Copernicus (the astronomer)

John 111 Siebiski- defeat of ottoman turks at Vienna.

Tadeuz Koscuiszko(led popular peasant uprising against imperial russian hedgemonic tyranny

Jerzy Kirchmayer- 1944 Warsaw uprising

Wladyslaw Gomulka- 1950’s regime liberalism in former eastern bloc

Jerzy Urban(with Adam Ulam) – one of Detente architects and exponents- see Finlandisation.

Lech Walesa – real guts and trade union leader and first president

With match-angling in mind ,
one must remember their 5 pole team of Traper Siedlce that finished 4th at Lake Malta in Poland in 2010.

Only pole I’ve really been happy with is my Daiwa Tournament S. I like my Pto apart from coming apart all the time and no.4s breaking! Just got a Browning Z9 but not tried yet, looks good though and everyone I know that has 1 says they are good.

1. Tournament 710
2. Spectron
3. Tournament Pro
4. Maver K47
5. Garbolino Super Legion

in no particular order

garbolino power maxim
maver medusa
shimano speedmaster
maver K series
Tournament pro

grande slam 1450
preston innovation blue point
speecy
tournament pro
colmic x 5000

tornament x still use it now and love it

Spectron competition for me, wish they would start making it again with the satin X finish, surely a best seller

In no particular order.

Browning red spiral titanium
Dam Futron
Shimano super ultegra
Garbolino master ace
Power Maxim

Still see some tidy canal anglers using the master ace and futrons,and whilst they are no match for todays poles,they were the standout poles in terms of performance back in there day.

Silstar Traverse X it had metal collars on the female joints, weighed a ton, but strong as an ox. A bloke on a motorbike rode into it the bike had to be scrapped.