N'ZON Duo Under Scrutiny 

Great review and comments. It has actually left more questions than answers. My main issue is that as I run a Angling Club with 16 members who between them have a bewildering variety of Feeder, Bomb and Waggler rods. Putting aside the Waggler rods I have looked at the results over the past few years when we have fished matches which have been mainly Rods and not Poles. The amazing fact is that the winners and placed Anglers were and are using anything from Budget rods to High value Rods. As i can see there was no real winner of which type or length rod ( 7 to 11ft) was actually the best. The only winner was that the owners of the high value rods spent more money to actually catch no more fish than the others. Happy New Year.

Great review Tom & Dave, tackle/hardware personal preference. It’s what you feel confident using. I have 100 quid rods and slighter higher under 200 and + lower end 75 quid. I can see the difference slightly with the progression of the rod. Diawa make great rods/reels and is a big fan 👍🏻👌🏻

So much very good gear about these days, for less than a weeks wages,back in my day you'd spend whole week wages on top end rod etc

Had problem with mono line grinding with daiwa. Solved it with spooling braid on reel, but now i have reserve buying new stuff🤷🏻‍♂️

The Action on that was fantastic just what l like is the 9ft Version the same and do they do a 8ft which is what I really want 😊

i got a 13ft n zon waggler rod for £40 odd new,can't go wrong with that and its a lovely rod.

Ive got the 11ft feeder rods and they are great to use. And I have had some big carp on them. Ive also got the 11ft Preston supera x rods which are quite a lot dearer but I wouldn't say that they are much better better.

diawa nzon rods are the best there is for the money i use the nzon z 10/11 feeder rods they were nzon top end rods at £180 and wow great rods pitty they got dicontinued but the new range and price is great evan the ninja range is megga for the money and the nzon reels are awesome diawa never produces rubbish

I’ve got most of the N’Zon range quality gear as for calling it budget range id disagree unless you call £125 for a landing net handle at a budget price also n’zon luggage ain’t much cheaper than there tournament luggage

Set the drag to a 1/3 of the line breaking strain.

Are you ever going to put the wickersley tournament pro pole review on you RU-vid please?

What a brilliant comment. Somebody next swim bagging. Who cares what gear they have

Keeper ring ! not hook holder boys lol

Wouldn’t buy another N’zon. My one (1-2 year old, the model with the blue band near the grip) has the dreaded ‘line-grind’ problem. Meaning that even reeling in a smallish fish, the line makes a grinding noise/vibration over the rings. Apparently due to the cheap non-lined aluminium oxide rings. This is a well documented issue (several review vids here on RU-vid mention it.