What pod?

[Steve Burke]

Severn Wolf:

Have you tried the carbon banksticks at all?

I haven't. The idea seemed interesting when they first came out a few years back when I was in the tackle trade. I can't remember now why I didn't follow it up though. Time probably as I was working on so many design projects in those days.

 

BTW, what I especially like about the King's banksticks is their long thin point. It goes into gravel with a lot less effort than a standard point. It's usually when you're trying to ram a bankstick into hard ground that it gets damaged.

 

So a carbon bankstick with its light weight matched with a long thin point might be the best of both worlds.

 

Unless of course you're a tackle tart who insists on stainless steel!

[Severn Wolf]

Stainless steel, I dropped into that trap a few years ago! Sure it looks the danglies but the weight is a no-go!

 

I was really concerned with the carbon sticks that they wouldn`t take the abuse of hard ground or gravel swims well, it only needs one dink and the stick can fail.

[Steve Burke]

Has anyone tried the carbon banksticks? One worry I'd have is that they'd bend a bit. The result would be that they'd be difficult to get into hard ground as you couldn't apply enough downward force.

[Tony U]

What about the Titanium Banksticks marketed by Nash a few years ago?

They would combine the lightness of aluminium with durability od Stainless Steel th downside of course being the cost.

[RobStubbs]

I use a combination of banksticks and pods (a solar stainless jobby). I have two rods on that all the time and have the other rod(s) on single banksticks. I also carry a spare pod in case I have to fish on platform type swims. I always point my rods to the bait, as much as possible plus you can keep the rods farther apart than 3 or 4 on a single pod. Thereby making the netting of fish much easier than having to juggle rods about.

 

Rob.

[chevin]

I was most interested in Vagabond's imaginative alternative to the rather expensive pods that have been discussed here. However, I feel that it is essential that before such an innovative idea was widely accepted, a committee should be formed to investigate any possible environmental impact it may have.