Tri-cast,unbeatable 🙂 🙂 🙂

xitan margin pole £299 it s a 9 metre margin pole and its strong bloody strong
biggest carp to date 17lb 6 oz orange hollow

Get a drennan series 7 only £29 for top kits too.ive got a browning extreme margin pole only reason ive got one cos it interfits my z12 so i can use it to 18m ship back fast n play the fish on the margin pole,its nice but ive disintergrated the 4+5 on a foul hooker!!!!

Shimano Beastmaster, unbreakable & unbeatable for price!

tricast trilogy margin is exellent, expensive but best imo.

Tricast xrs.

Yank N bank for me , very strong , only issue is the top kits are quite short

I know its not the topic but does anyone know if the mk2 beastmaster margin pole(yellow one) top kit fits the original (creamy white)one many thanks for any info.

maver invincible

What’s the best margin pole?

Ask a silly question get ten different answers! 🙂

@tench0771 wrote:

ive got the drennen series 7 8.5m ive cracked every section apart from the but section lol smashed a top kit to, im after a animal of a pole the trycast an browning sound like there good beast master ive hurd a few go bang steve ringer smashed one on a vid he made once so i hurd never saw the vid tho, i dont no y some of these compneys say its lite an stiff to me that sounds like a week pole to me the hole point in a margin pole is for hit and hold or draging big carp away fron snags ect just my view tho 🙂

Blimey. If you broke top sections or top 2 kits I could understand it – simply giving it loads of stick probably. But to break other, bigger sections like No 3, No 4 No 5 (!!) how on earth do you do that ?? You say cracked – so not broken ?? So you’ve crushed them just by holding it far too tight ??

Gus E.
The tops are interchangeable. Also Shimano have introduced a Beastmaster Extreme, 4metre 4 section pole. This fits the No.4 section & is an out & out margin tool. They were selling at Chapmans for less than £40!!!

thanks spotter

Not used one but check out u tube for tricast xrs margin not stiff but that didn’t surprise me but it sure looks strong

The Original Tri-Cast XRS IMO has never been bettered (the purple one)

TheTricast XRS (purple one) has also served me very well and has stopped many a near 20 over the 15 years or so that i have used it and you can still get spares !. If a swim is really bad i wouldn’t bother with the pole but use a 2lb plus test curve carp rod (an early nineties tournament), 12lb line and a pole float and paste combo. The pole elastic will keep giving where as you can do everything up nice and tight with a softish yet powerful rod and line setup. Another thought is that when carp started to get to big many people used powerful bolo rods. Daiwa did a good one. It’s nice not to be a sheep.

Still use a preston “The Edge”

Maver invincible 13m pole, the top 5 sections on all competition maver poles are compatible , Invincible 13m pole

The question posed is straight forward but I don’t think anyone on here can answer it. Maybe the manufacturers know what their poles are capable of but they leave the buyer completely in the dark. Saying its rated to this elastic or that is of little use. What you really need to know is at what point will it break and which pole will take the most load before it does.
On here you will get honest opinions, some will be influenced by sponsorship though so beware, based on experience. I would be very surprised if anyone has selected a range of new poles and tested them to destruction in a way that they can measure what we all want to know.
Not just margin poles either, top end £5k pole manufacturers are just as vague when it comes to the things we need to know.
The only guide is price and that is not a guarantee.

What John h says is right but if I remember rightly pole fishing did a test with the invincible and picked up a 2kilo weight with it

Gazer that info is fine but what length was the pole when they did the test because the longer it was the more credible the test?
Whatever load you apply if you break a section even if it’s first time out you will not get a replacement unless the manufacturer accepts the fault was his, ie a fault in manufacture.
I cannot remember breaking a rod and I use light rods where I can but pole sections are a nightmare, I break at least two per year.
That said I have fished being coached by international anglers and they break a fair few too.
It’s just part of the game now, at least with pullers breakages are increasingly top kits only so cheap to replace.

Totally agree with what you say I am not saying the invincible is the strongest pole as I have never used it just remember the test I think it was done at 6 metres and the tricast in the vid is used to drag a near double not using just the top kit these two examples are as close to an honest test that I have seen but as they say one swallow does not a summer make

Just for info I use an old Diaflash as a margin pole. I bought it second hand about 20 years ago and it has spent most of its life in my garage until I remembered I had it. I now use it most of the time having only bought it to fish Drayton in its heyday. I would never use a modern top end pole to fish for lumps or in a snag pit even if the carp were small. My Daiwa poles TP and TPX only come out of the holdall early or late season now.
Even then I broke two sections last year. I have never broken a section on the Diaflash so my vote would be for it being the strongest pole ever made its certainly up there and if Shimano ever remade it, it would sell by the shed load IMO.