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Landing net handle

For what it's worth

I have used the drennan twist lock for all my mobile fishing. The twist mechanism does fail eventually but it's very easy to fix. I have a lone angler one and my only whinge is its the early plastic threaded type. The latter brass threaded are obviously a bit more robust.
 
I went to angling direct in Waltham cross today to have a pat butchers. They only had the drennan out of the handles you have recommended, in 2 and 3 meters. The twist lock wasn't working on two of the handles I tried which didn't fill me with confidence but I need a handle for going on holiday tomorrow and one was still in its wrspping so I bought it

It does feel light and strong and its a considerable improvement on the two piece carp match handle that broke completely at the thread. It wasn't all bad - it meant I could only fish one swim on the whole stretch, somewhere where I wouldn't normally have fished and ended up catching 9 barbel from. I know this means I'll probably blank for weeks now!

Thanks very much for all the advice
 
I switched to the Gardner after many years use from the powerstretch. It's been faultless since I've bought it fantastic handle.
 
Jeff Collins said:
For what it's worth

I have used the drennan twist lock for all my mobile fishing. The twist mechanism does fail eventually but it's very easy to fix. I have a lone angler one and my only whinge is its the early plastic threaded type. The latter brass threaded are obviously a bit more robust.
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Interesting you say that the twist mechanism is easy to fix. I have had mine for getting on 10 years and it has been used for all my river fishing so can't really complain. However, the twist mechanism has finally failed but unfortunately, when I phoned Drennan recently, I was advised that they have changed the specification of the locking mechanism on newer models (it is now a grey material not black) and the grey part is not compatible with the older model. They sent me one to try and it doesn't work so it looks like another £50 investment for the next ten years is required - unless of course you have a magic easy fix! Whats the secret? It seems such a shame that a perfectly good pole is condemned to the scrap heap because of one very small faulty part.
 
Im using the gardner handle its a brilliant piece of kit.....
 
Graham Elliott said:
I've bought a korum 3mtr tele power handle.

Brilliant. Great value £30.

Very pleased ideal steep banks
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I use a tele pole Graham, but I find mine a PITA where tight swims and trees/undergrowth abound.

The problem is that you have to fully extend it to lock it in position, then quite often there is absolutely nowhere you can poke it (steady Graham :D) out of the way until you need it. On the other hand, if you leave it collapsed, there is no way you can extend and lock it with one hand while playing a fish...which means of course that the net can spin like a top.

At least with a locking handle, you can set it to whatever length suits the swim you are in...it doesn't have to be fully extended to lock it securely.

Cheers, Dave.
 
Useful thread for me as I left my Drennan super specialist on the river bank over the weekend and no one has handed it in yet :(.

I've always been pleased with the Drennan.I replaced the internal bush a while back which the company sent foc(well done Drennan).

If it doesn't appear then I will probably replace it or might even go for the Gardner which gets consistently good reviews.
 
Geoff Sykes said:
Interesting you say that the twist mechanism is easy to fix. I have had mine for getting on 10 years and it has been used for all my river fishing so can't really complain. However, the twist mechanism has finally failed but unfortunately, when I phoned Drennan recently, I was advised that they have changed the specification of the locking mechanism on newer models (it is now a grey material not black) and the grey part is not compatible with the older model. They sent me one to try and it doesn't work so it looks like another £50 investment for the next ten years is required - unless of course you have a magic easy fix! Whats the secret? It seems such a shame that a perfectly good pole is condemned to the scrap heap because of one very small faulty part.
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Unscrew the end cap and push the smaller thinner pole out. Take off the grey of black locking mechanism and inspect it. Generally it will have smoothed off and be quite polished. Get some 240 grit sand paper and lightly scuff all around the surface area of the grey or black locking part.
Once you place back it on the threaded part only screw down enough to get it back into the larger pole section.
It's worth noting that you should only rotate to lock it the larger outside diameter pole and not the smaller section. Sounds strange but that's been the cure for me.

Hope that helps.:)
 
Jeff Collins said:
Unscrew the end cap and push the smaller thinner pole out. Take off the grey of black locking mechanism and inspect it. Generally it will have smoothed off and be quite polished. Get some 240 grit sand paper and lightly scuff all around the surface area of the grey or black locking part.
Once you place back it on the threaded part only screw down enough to get it back into the larger pole section.
It's worth noting that you should only rotate to lock it the larger outside diameter pole and not the smaller section. Sounds strange but that's been the cure for me.

Hope that helps.:)
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Will give it a try. Thanks.
 
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