This pole would cost over £7000 today! What Is It Like? 

I'd love to see more videos like this using older items of tackle and looking at how they compare to modern gear! My nostalgia Item is my AS1 seat box I'm still using mine and I will never change! I also still use my Abu 1044's and Browning 8010's for river float fishing!

Great nostalgic video. I remember my Dad and myself using his Tri-Cast XRS. That pole was bomb proof and the Tournament in this video reminds me of it with its diameter. Could watch these videos all day with Mick. Sounds like a top, honest bloke. Keep it up!

Brilliant content Mick. Loved it.

Great Video it was great to reminisce about the tackle from the 90's. I done a lot of Coarse fishing here in Ireland in the 90's as a teenager and the rod I still use today from that era and would not swap out for a modern rod is the Shakespeare Rubicon 12 foot float rod. It is still a beautiful lightweight rod which I can fish with 1.5 lb line for roach with no fear of break off. Still feels light in the hand compared to modern rods. I think it is a shame how the market has become so focused on commercial carp waters. I think there was, and still is here in Ireland, more soul in Coarse fishing back then. So many methods are being forgotten about with the pole bring so popular these days too

Can remember having the original Shimano Diaflash pole in the late 80s, was a fantastic bit of kit in the day

My old favourite is one you mentioned in the intro, my 1044 ABU closed face reel. I used it in the summer on the river with a stick float and 13ft float rod and enjoyed every second of it. I will be doing it a lot more too ! ATB MMMD

Hi. Mick, god this brings back memories, back in 1990, I got into match fishing and team fishing just like you, I had an old diawa pole and needed to upgrade so I bought myself a Michell Mondial, a mid range pole that cost 800 quid for 14.5 metres

I’m still using the Drennan IM8 super waggler and super stick float rods and also the Shimano super match RE reel. Still brilliant items !!

Have a tricast 13ft aristocrat waggler rod still use it today.great video of the late great Ivan mark’s using one,with David hall.great video guys.

Great video nice to see the old kit still catching fish

Brilliant video and brought back memories, got my first pole in 91 so saw the big improvements in the 90s. Would be interested for you to get a tape measure and see what it came up at.

My favourite piece of kit form the past is a Diawa Tournement Pro 12' Waggler Rod and a Diawa Auto 1657DM (Dab) reel. Still use them today. Fab kit. I also have a Preston Lerc Genus 8 16m pole which is as good as new

Still got my daiwa harrier 11mtr which i bought in the middle 80s and the top kits from my maver darkside fit it perfect so happy days.. great video..

Very enjoyable and nostalgic I also had a Tricast Aristocrat 😂

Brilliant this lads. Love it! I had two Daiwa Harrier whips, both 6m, might see if they’re at my parents house still over Xmas! X

I can remember this pole very rare now ...like the Hexagon Pole .l was 19 in 1990...

Shakespeare Excelsior Match rod - just a beautiful rod for the rivers won it as a prize for the Junior Canal classic in 1999 a treasured possession

I've still got the Daiwa Amorphous Whisker Harrier 12 foot Bream rod, the one with the spliced-in tip. I paid £130 for it back in 1991 and I've only used it twice. It's a lovely rod but a bit light for what I do. It's been in the loft in a tube for 30 years. I'm one of those guys who never sells anything. I've got old wood planes and chisels from decades ago that I used to use for work but not touched for what seems like an eternity. I've still got the old pump actioned Yanky screwdrivers back from the 80s too and the old ELU power tools but that's for another RU-vid site.

Was talking about yourself to dave other day at York tackle, hope your keeping well👍

Got loads of old gear I still use. Saw one of my favourite poles as kid on ebay the other year and had to have it. An original Tri Cast Sovereign pole. It's mint and looks beautiful. Still got loads of old Tri Cast rods too and still sit on a brilo box when I fish. Things move on, but it still feels great using the old gear and going back to the youth.

I still have anout 10.5m left of a Shimano TPGTX. Super slim and so strong. Wanted one for years after being near Big Kev on the Bridgewater canal in Warrington. Very short top 3's.

Brilliant flash back Mick, I remember these poles very well, I couldn't afford one of these so I settled for the Daiwa Connoisseur Great poles for there time.

Hi great video. Last year i fished with Old whisker carbon 11m, and i was really suprised how good that is, lovely pole and slim, did not catch a wind one bit and it was windy that day.

I still have all kinds of tackle iv used sinse the 70s including hooks and lines and floats love it all brings memories back 😊

What a great Video Mick a trip down memory lane would be a good name for a new series of videos like this. I still have my old Browning 910xl in storage along with an old red Brilo box just wish i'd kept hold of the Browning B7500.

Remember you winning the match next to me on Fosse Dyke canal with about 12lb,masterfully playing a big tench of about 6lb on as you called it,my pride and joy.Think we were pegged in the 70s.

Brilliant watch mick- I used too fish with a garbalino scimitar 11'5 metres- a great pole 25 years ago

Great video, I myself am still using original Normark microlight, titan & avenger with Abu 501, but I will swap the reel over on the avenger for a TDR if I'm catching chub. Also still using a tournament 410 and winning plenty 👍

My first pole was a DAM Hi Litanium Dynamic Ace 14.4m cost a fortune (I was in college) weighed next to nothing and had a diameter about the same as a 50p piece - wouldn't trust it with more than a number 6 elastic but prolly the best roach pole I ever owned Really good video thanks

Still got normark micro lite & 2 Abu 501s & turbatini seat box

Loved this, thanks. I'm totally out of touch with reality and I still use Diaflash rods in 12', 13', 14', and Diaflash poles (I've got 4). I don't fish past 12m and I go out of my way to avoid carp. The comments on action made me smile. I just elasticate the top one - just about get a no 3 down it - for roach on shallow water and it's the next best feeling to a flick-tip. These poles have caught everything, including barbel, and never broken a section in decades of use. My other float rods are Daiwa Amorphous and Connoisseur.

Fabulous upload, look at all these comments! You've started something now!

WOW! That is some pole to squirrel away! Mine is a Browning Black Magic II 14m pole with 3 top kits (no pullers!) It is super light and slim. I use it now and again for silver fishing. I used to use it at Woodlands for carp bashing! Oh and I still have my Shakespeare (in grey) box (unmolested, no Octoplue legs) I bought in 1986 with my Christmas money

This is proper kit, ive got a 13ft Tommy Pickering team diawa stick float rod signed by tommy , with a diawa closed face 125 👍this is when things was built properly......... Pucca video Mick 👍👏👏

Love my tri cast cerberus that I bought of John and dolly at York tackle in 2002,still use it now n then low diameter pole aswell👍

Great video.

My first proper pole was a second hand shimano hyperloop 1250 that had 1 top kit and spiral weave , I then changed to a Future Full Monty 14.5m pole which was a fantastic match pole and ive just given it away.

I had a silstar classic match and it broke the bank and it was second hand ! I recently picked up power loop Pole for 40 quid and use it on the local pond instead of my airity because of all the kids running about and it’s surprisingly good for its age

My dad bought me the tricast challenger 10m carbon pole for my 18th birthday way back in 1986 It had external rod eyes on the tip and the elastic ran externally through them instead of running inside the tip. It's still in the garage somewhere! In later years I used it as a margin pole, I only ever had one top kit with it.

Diawa connoisseur purple. Just started again after 20years and it still does the job 👍

Ive still got my old Garbalino Carnival pole from the mid 90's.

In the early 1990, in the age of 13 years, I bought my first pole - a 8m DAIWA Powermesh Competition...In these days, it was looking a bit strange and exotic, when I was fishing for carps with a full carbon tip....but in Austria, where I live pole fishing especially elastics where unknown in the early 90s...I was very proud of owning one of the rare fishing rods, longer than 5m.... Later I fished a TRIANA Carpzilla and Fortezza....Nowadays, 30 years later, I am using a PRESTON XS90 and different Shimano Aspire poles. The matchrods in the 90s where more responsive than today, I felt in love with the attention to detail, the rods where manufacterd. But when I was young the flagship models where incredibly expensive....I used different "cheaper" models from Shimano and Drennan like Powerloop and the Tench Float... Later, I started to collect these rods and now I own a wardrobe full of about 50 former flagship matchrods like Shiamano Diaflash, XMR, XMZ, Twinpower, Triple X, Powerloop, DRENNAN Waggler, Daiwa Amorphous Whisker, Whisker Kevlar, Harrier, Connoisseur.....and a few other/later ones like SILSTAR Diaflex, Shimano Antares, TRIANA Spacematch and many many high quality speed whips from 80s and 90s

2 pints and 2 bags of crisps for 98p a round... Hahaha, th2y were the days. that was about 1983 when I was regularly in the local on the Surrey Hants border, Farnborough and Camberley area.

My 1ft pole was a Fothergill and Harvey (now Tri-cast)…..back in 1980 ….Steve Conroy elasticated for me and had e few lessons …in return he took it to Ireland to fish a festival….great memory 👍

Still use occasionally my shakespeare sigma float rod bought with saved up paper round money , I now 56 so a few years ago

I recently got out of the garage loft my early 1980's Olympic Superior 10m carbon pole; a brilliant pole in its day but very heavy compared with even the cheapest long poles now. Cost me £400 - including a spare tip!

I also still use my selection of original Browning Speedstik Whips, probably get used a dozen or more times a year, even on commercial venues for the little rudds and roaches along with the canal/drains/docks when pleasure fishing, oh and Durleigh Reservoir.

I had, and loved, a silstar powerwind put-in pole, 11m. Bomb proof, and I used it, up to 11m, with powergum fishing to hand for bream. That pole was mega thin and had metal reinforced joint. I had my first 20lb+ carp on it. Sadly it wasn't strong enough for a teenager to fall onto it.

early 80,s Ernie Stamford 13ft match/float rod on a fibatube (hardy) blank.cost 70 odd quid. still use it now.

I’m still using my Garbolino original super legion 16mtr pole and the only wrap I’ve got on it is on the number 5 section I only use it for my silverfish fishing but it absolutely brilliant

I have two AWP from mt. 14.5. And I still use them because I consider this rod to be the best RBS ever made. I had them modified so that they had the pulla on all the tips.

As a kid I won a silstar light feeder rod from Ian heap at one of his road shows Still use my Drennan im8 medium feeder rods and 13’im8 feeder I still have my old trabucco sc1 pole ( my top kits are still in use as they fit my current pole 😉😉) Still use my brilo box And my current box is a matchbox I converted to have 25mm legs and a built in footplate and stack Three ryobi closed face reels too love them for stick fishing 👍👍👍

Blue Edition 😮

I loved the nostalgia Mick but l believe that the tackle today is so advanced and l haven't saved any of my older stuff. At the time l had Daiwa Amorphous and Normark Titan 2000 rods and l also had the 2ft extension that took the Titan to 15'. Absolutely loved these until l sold to buy Carbotec rods. These were brilliant and Preston brought out their Carbonactive rods > sold my carbotecs got what l paid for them and bought the Prestons. They were more affordable and it was at a Tom Pickering evening that I made the decision to go with Preston The carbonactive rod technology still stands proud today. Reels are the things that impress me most today' ABU Mitchell and Shimano were always my choice as the extra cost involved always shone through. Not so now as Preston produce some great affordable reels I use Centris and Magnitudes for feeder but for waggler l use the Shimano Aero XRs. I've had poles from Maver Tricast Drennan Middy Browning Sensas a Shimano Diaflash Daiwa Tournament S and Tournament Pro. Can't separate the Diaflash and Browning Legend both suited me, but Tourney Pro different class and l would still buy one if l was in the market.

Poles back then were slimmer and thicker walled. Quite rare that you broke a section. No pole repairers back then. Had a black and white connoisseur pole early 90's, very strong. Still use it to catch live bait when pike fishing.

Drennan im8 super feeder brilliant rod

Mines a shimano super Ultegra 390fa rod Used to be match with shimano match 3 but sold that for same as i paid even after 15 years of use 😊

Ian heaps silstar 11ft canal rod awesome rod ideal for skimmers but could handle carp bend to the but gutted when I lent it to a mate and he snapped 2 inches off tip ..never the same rod after that

I still use my Tricast XRS pole. Not the 2000 model the original model. I reckon I bought it in the 80's. It's now got pole aligners & side pullers.

Pole packages were always about the pole and hardly any top kits back in the day. I think Leslie's of Luton were one of the first to offer extra kits with their Insight 10000 16m pole. Wish I still had it. Also discovered that a barbel rod I have from Fox is worth a hell of alot more now than what I bought it for been using it for float carp margin fishing 🤦‍♂️

I know where your coming from Mick, I'm from your generation of anglers and brought my 2nd pole in 93 which was a map pole and cost £900 at the time plus extra for spare topkits and was really thick at the butt

What a pole, remember watching Derek Young and Peter vasey using there's on the London canals back in the day , I was very jealous. I think that poles today are stiffer because they are a section less than they was when the amorphous was about , and that's down to daiwa too when the brought out the tourney X .

Where does one begin. I have an old Triana Grand Slam that must have been a good poll in its day, it came with two number 4s and a dolly butt. Year? Normark Titan 100. Silstar Matchpicker Plus Daiwa TD fast carping pole I have Keith Bowler's old Lerc G91 16meter pole gifted to me by Anne Bowler. Still a great pole. I will have to get out and do a retro review soon 👍

I had a garbo turbo 12.5mtr which I was given and had that up until I packed in. I also had a green spiral Pro titanium which I replaced with a dam futron. However the turbo stayed in the holdall all the time for when it was windy. Would have liked a trianna or world champ but they were out of my budget. I think Peter vassey and dickie carr were the only two I saw with that pole on the London circuit. Maver were also very popular then.

Even the top kit looks droopy😆 good vid though, and yes I have stuff I don't use from way back, such as a couple of ABU reels. TRI CAST now there's a name....their poles were indestructible.

Hi there I have a 1973 Abu 501 closed face real loaded with 2lb drennan low diameter line brilliant for a days stick float fishing .

Very interesting Mick . Comparison from 90 to now Had a couple browning poles 1991/92 then got tournament s pole 96 flagship at the time looked like a banana at 14.5 Mt but was brilliant. Wish price for pint was same now as 1990 😅

ABU closed face reels, Shimano Aero reels, Tri cast 4x4's, Spectron pole, Lexicon, Tetra Elite and Mach 3 float rods - all over 15years old. The only time those tackle discriminating fish get to see them is when I unhook them.

I still fish the canals with a Dam FUTRON 13 /7 mt won it in a raffle we’re selling at £999 at the time,still use Tom P Kevlar stick & waggle rods I’m now 79 years old to late to change

Oldest rods I have are the Daiwa Connoisseur Tommy P 13ft Waggler (the purple one), and some Milo New Era Mk2 feeder rods - pairs in 11ft / 11ft6-12ft / 12ft, and a single 13ft rod - on the lauded Daimaru carbon blanks. Got one each of the Connoisseur Z Mk2 11-13ft in the SW and PW versions (sadly, no tips). The last four Daiwa TD1350DM reels in a drawer are looking a bit tired and desparately needing some TLC. Can I include my Matchbox (Clint Elliott) Gold and (Jim Burton) Pyramid boxes?

Still have and use my shakespeare 12ft super team quatro feeder rod,diawa 13ft matchlite waggler rod, silstar boron13ft spliced tip stick float rod and an original blue Mitchell 440a match reel

Mine is a 1988 Browning Titanium Legend pole.

My Shimano Aero Match 3 reels. Had some since they were released and still keep picking the odd one up now

Still have and use the Daiwa Spectron competition pole and the first pole I bought (silstar powerwind deluxe 12.5m) which was fitter with Leslie's of Luton animal elastic for hauling big carp out of reedbeds. I still use silstar diaflex Dave Roper 14ft &13ft hollow & spliced tip rods and two silstar diaflex 10ft multi tips (with origional tips) at least once a month. My pride and joy for winter feeder fishing is an original shakespeare sigma wand with the very light tips. Still use occasionally my Mitchel 324 reels bought in 1969.

I still use a Preston gis10 got two of them and a gis 9 they still catch fish

I had a Shimano super ultegra that was a very slim pole too. Still got a Maver C31 somewhere, One was as weak as a kitten to the other as heavy as a elephant 😂

DAM Mactron pole still going strong for me

i still use my normark "microlyte" quality

Normark Titan 2000 still use it

The older poles were "put in" type that could be rolled on slimmer mandrels.

Daiwa tournament 710, in 2001 cost £7,500

Daiwa Amorphous 11 / 13 SW Tip rod. Bought new for £195 in the mid 1990's, cost today would be £383.11p. And I still have and use it occasionally.

Browning 12.3mt legend,(blue one)

Silstar Travis x mitch picker 10ft perfect silver fish feeder rod still uxe it today

Still got a Kevin Ashurst 13 ft sundrigd😂

the rrp is £3500 in the 96 daiwa catalogue for the 14m with extra top 2 but most of these were sold at around £2200. i’ve got one at 16m with loads of topkits and still use fairly regular it’s very good up to 12.5m but it’s hard work at longer lengths… the build quality and design of graphics are amazing on this and it’s definitely a classic iconic pole and still a pleasure to use as i don’t fish matches.

Would love to see how the 710 would rate against today's poles

13:12 Banana 😂 by todays standards … but king of the fishery in its days👍

Didn't pay that for me 1st house ,, 😔

Do you fancy selling it ir would help me tremendously i need a new pole

I'm going to get slated for this, but I honestly don't think poles have Improved all that much over the years , the finish on them seems superior for sure but even looking at flagship poles ( most of my mates have airs ) they don't seem all that stiff and light to me .

Hope you're gonna clean it for me 😂😂😂

WHAT A pole. Never liked the Mjtchel match reel great spool too much effort to close the ball arm

Shimano Diaflash 14.5 mts pole, I would never ever, ever sell it.

ABU 506

daiwa 811 will raison.

I've only just retired my 11m Shakespeare Victory X put in pole 😂😂😂 (talking of slim poles)

I still got the drennan14.foot im9 float rod still use in for stick and waggler fishing on the tidal kentish stour great rod but won't take line over 3 pound

Still got normark micro lite & 2 Abu 501s & turbatini seat box

Sure that’s a Boss nose cone