I wonder what the reaction will be to this? Am I alone in thinking it strange to use a pod when the banks where you are fishing are soft enough for simply two bank sticks pushed into the ground?

I also prefer to not use a pod, in fact I cannot remember having to use one for two or three years.

Steve

pods are horrible things, i really dont get on with them, the people who use them are people who were caught up in the fashion craze for pods, and spent a fortune and now only use them to get thier moneys worth,(you know who you are)
stainless is not only sexy, its sturdy, especialy in goal post form, provided you spalsh out a pound on a rubber mallet they will go almost anywhere. i use my pod as an impliment whilst fishing less than desirable areas, and that is the most usefull thing i have found to do with it,
lofty,

Oh no Lofty, no mallets, please! That's a sure way of making yourself extremely unpopular. Try the screw-in bank sticks instead. You can nearly always get them in somewhere, even on the rocky banks of the tidal Trent.

Im wondering why they dont coat the stainless steel pods, you know to prevent the sunlight from catching on them and causing reflections etc.

Must admit, I have joined the lazy b.stards club, fishing with a pod, 1 rod in front, 1 rod the the left at 90 degrees, reducing bite detection.......

I was once thinking about creating a little device that enabled you to use a pod with rods at which ever angle, a sort of semi circular effect. being able to move the front bar to reduce the angle of the line to indicator.........
(you saw it here first)

ANYONE GOT AN EMAIL ADDRESS FOR FOX OR NASHY IDEAS DEPARTMENT.

Sorry Mtey, already been designed & made by Mark Gardner @ Carp-Tech. It is called the Spider Pod.

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Darren Wilson

Never used a pod Steve,Leslies twin rest bars and Solar tri-adaptors if needed for boards
Get some funny looks with the bars held fast by tie-wraps or bungees but what the heck!

ahhhhh....bollocks....

there goes my fortune....

Does it work.

I must be an absolute noddy, then.
I use a rod pod all the time!

The vast majorety of places I fish have no
soft ground at all, usually solid rock so
bank sticks would useless.

Well i would be lost without my pod,i personaly hate banksticks, orrible wobble things stuck all over the swim, bite indication can be just as sensitive using a pod, you just need to use your common sense. i can see no bennifits of using banksticks over a pod, and i often fish locked up tight at many distances, so there is no prob there..