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Fox Horizon X4 or Daiwa Powermesh?

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Jim Mileman

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I only really fish the Trent and to date I've been using a couple of old carp rods but feel I now need to treat myself to a nice pair of matching rods. Both the Fox Horizon X4 Barbel and Daiwa Powermesh Barbel in 2.75lb TC seem well respected but has anybody compared them side by side and picked one over the other? I'm going to try and find somewhere that has both in stock to see for myself but thought I'd gauge what others opinions of them are as well.
Alternatively if there are any other rods I should be throwing into the mix please shout up.
 
Not sure where you live Jim but I'm sure Future Fishing at Farndon just outside Newark will have both rods in stock.
 
I sold some fox rods due the not being able to fully secure the reel properly. They were fox reel seats on the ones I had by the way
 
Jim Mileman said:
I only really fish the Trent and to date I've been using a couple of old carp rods but feel I now need to treat myself to a nice pair of matching rods. Both the Fox Horizon X4 Barbel and Daiwa Powermesh Barbel in 2.75lb TC seem well respected but has anybody compared them side by side and picked one over the other? I'm going to try and find somewhere that has both in stock to see for myself but thought I'd gauge what others opinions of them are as well.
Alternatively if there are any other rods I should be throwing into the mix please shout up.
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Years ago it would of been hard to answer that with both fox and Diawa producing excellent rods.
In fact fox would of been the front runner with the duo lite flood rods. Daiwa didn’t have an equivalent at the time.
Nowadays…. Easy…..diawa all the way.
Head and shoulders above Fox imo.
 
Powermesh 2.75s for the tidal with extra water on, or big tides and very happy with them, in fact much happier than i anticipated i would be. Only grip is the tip eye.
 
Thanks for the feedback guys, looks like the Daiwas are favourite which is handy as I was leaning towards them anyway. Just need to get out and see them in the flesh before committing.

Mark - I'm only up the road from Future Fishing so they'll be my first port of call

Peter - received the PM but I've got the itch now so don't really want to wait
 
I bought a pair of fox x4 2.75 last year on the strength of the excellent royales that I have,although the rods look and waggle superbly, on the first time out second cast the tip broke on one rod casting a 4 ounce lead (yes 4 ounce!!!!) so returned to shop and he gave me a new top section. Second time out again with 4 ounce lead snapped again on third ring down so again returned both rods and they were sent back to fox for inestigation and got them back two weeks later with new top sections to which they went on Ebay and to my surprise at the time there was two more pairs in the listings as well . My mate has a pair of the powermesh 2.75 and there really is no comparison, yes the foxes look great but don't make my mistake get the powermesh.
 
Guy Leeder said:
Powermesh 2.75s for the tidal with extra water on, or big tides and very happy with them, in fact much happier than i anticipated i would be. Only grip is the tip eye.
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What would you happily cast to a distance with the 2.75lb and what weight fo a lob out
 
Ray Heath said:
What would you happily cast to a distance with the 2.75lb and what weight fo a lob out
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cast 3.5 to 4ozs max
lobbed 6ozs plus feeder or 8ozs without feeder max
 
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