Rods, Reels & Poles

Nytro’s tagline is ‘Performance First’ and while that certainly rings true about the Nytro products I’ve tested for Match Fishing magazine so far, they are also very much focused on price. This pole is a great example of that.

Truthfully, many ‘match anglers’ might not even consider a £79.99 pole for ‘serious use’, but this thing is absolutely a contender if your game is catching big weights or margin fishing where six metres is long enough. This is the sort of pole that you’d carry in addition to your main pole – at that price it’s not really the sort of tool you’re going to be too worried about throwing around on the bank.

Nytro has designed this thing to be strong – and it is! If you want to rig up 20 plus elastics and go hauling this is the tool for you. Need to get right in amongst those reeds to get a bite? No problem, this pole has you covered – the limiting factor will be you and how hard you can actually pull because this pole is designed for strength. It’s designed NOT to let you down.

It’s manufactured with extra wall thickness and strong joints, with a carbon reinforced blank. It’s a take-apart design (as you would expect) and comes pre-fitted with a PTFE bush in the tip and a brilliant pre-fitted roller puller, too. All you need to do is thread up the elastic and away you go. At £79.99 you only get the one top kit supplied with the pole, however, spare top two kits are available for just £24.99 each – now that’s a bargain! The top kits will also fit a number of other different manufacturers’ poles too.

So you could easily kit yourself out with a pole and a couple of spare top kits for under £150. But what’s it like to fish with and is it actually any good?Well, in a nutshell, YES, it is very good when you consider the exceptionally modest price tag. I’ve tested a few margin poles over the last dozen issues of the magazine and there have been a couple of stand-out options. This is certainly one of them. Today we have come to a local venue for me – Meadowlands – as there are some big fish living in here, which I’m hoping to catch on the pole today.

I’ve set up on the big lake here, Lambsdown, and with just six metres of pole to play with and a very cold day I know I’ll need some patience to give us a chance of catching one, or more. I’ve sat in the deeper swims on recommendation from venue owner, Wayne Sharman. I’ve set up a 4x16 rig with a strung bulk and 0.19mm main line to a 0.17mm hooklength, which is matched to the 14-18 rated elastic that I’ve fitted through the top two kit. Shipping out for the first time it has to be said that this pole is plenty stiff enough for the money and perfectly fishable all day. Heck, if you never fished beyond six metres, then this COULD be the only pole you’ll ever need in your armoury.

It ships easily and has a really unique carbon weave finish that I’ve not come across before. It also features joint aligners for optimum performance. I must say that I really like everything this pole offers and, for the money, you simply cannot fault it! Certainly I’d absolutely have one of these in my holdall.

With the rigs plumbed up I carefully introduce a few grains of corn and some 6mm fishery pellets into the swim via a small pole-mounted pot. The water is towing slightly from left to right and it’s around seven to eight feet deep where I’m fishing. I feel that fishing in this depth at the full 6m length gives us the best chance of latching into a fish or two… hopefully. I have a strong, barbless size 14 hook on, which is perfect for the double corn hook bait. Even though the water is cooler now I still like to fish with this hook bait as this place is also rammed with silver fish so the slightly bigger hook bait is a bit more selective. After around 25 minutes of fishing and feeding with utmost precision the float buries and I strike! Not as much elastic comes out as I’d hoped and quickly a nice hybrid is in the net. Not quite the intended species, but a start nonetheless. Five minutes later the float buries again and this time it’s a carp – brilliant! It rips off into the deeps and I hang on, but the pole has absolutely no difficulty taming the first one of the day.An hour or so passes with only a couple of big skimmers to show for my efforts before ‘wallop’, carp number two is on. A short battle ensues as it soon pings off – a foul hooker unfortunately as I come back with a big scale. Tapping in a few grains of corn and 6mms regularly from a height, in order to make some noise, my patience pays off as the float buries again and another carp heads off into the lake. This is a better fish and I can see it’s a nice common as it rolls on the surface some way out in front of me. I hang on and the fish turns as the pole takes on a proper bend. No sweat for the Power Edge Carp though as this is exactly what the pole is made for. A big common soon lays in the net and offers proof that this pole will absolutely do what it says on the tin.

I think if you’re in the market for a second pole to accompany your ‘main pole’, or (if like me) you take your son/daughter (or your grandson/granddaughter) fishing then this IS the tool for the job. You’ll never worry about breaking it and the top kits are super-cheap so you can carry a few threaded up with different elastics. A job very well done from Nytro I think, as the price point makes it so accessible.

Features
• Carbon reinforced blank
• Extra wall thickness and strong joints
• Pre-fitted PTFE bush
• Pre-fitted roller puller
• Take-apart design

RRP: £79.99
WEBSITE: www.nytrofishing.com

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