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Hi All
I used the atropa poles when they first came out (2008 ish) and although the concept was great the actual product was awful. They kept cracking and breaking at the joints and mine lasted less than a season. If they've fixed that problem it should be a great product.
Best bit of advice i can give anyone using a boat is to buy some high viz reflective tape. You can attatch it to trees, reeds, canes, h blocks, marker floats or permanent markers. Once finished you can easily remove it leaving no permanent damage or impact.
Best
Jon
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In reply to Post #19
You can get them back after they have sunk but it's a right pain in the arris.... 
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In reply to Post #19
 yeah makes sense.
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In reply to Post #1
Word of advice if you use marker poles put them at the bottom of bars/features not on the top of it 
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In reply to Post #13
Agreed I have used h blocks etc but the perfect solution I found was the Atropia poles they have automatic height adjusting if a fish goes round it just sways over and the line comes off
and can even get lights to go on top
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In reply to Post #12
I use h block markers every time I fish and never had a single issue with them.
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Anyone who can post pics up can you pm me your number and I can send you some pictures of the way I made my poles up so very one can see 👍
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Thanks again for the replies everyone, gonna buy some conduit and fixings and make my own, never realised how cheap it was 😂 and if they're crap I'll get a set of those mr magoo
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In reply to Post #8
I use the atropia poles from the tackle box, brilliant piece of kit
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In reply to Post #2
I use a boat extensively in the US.
After using H blocks, with the inevitable ‘fish tangle round cord’ stuff, I have found that pvc conduit, weighted at bottom, is the best approach. For deep water, glue conduit screw in connectors to 2 sectors. I successfully use them in up to 19+ feet that way. Add paint or reflective tape at top to your taste, use foam to seal pipe ends.
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In reply to Post #1
I use both marker poles and the gps from my fish finder , obviously it’s up to you if you think carp will spook off the poles , then the gps comes into its own , you can buy relatively cheap fish finders with gps now , the Garmin striker 4 is a great budget gps fish finder unit , and can tell you a lot more about the bottom from the on screen display
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In reply to Post #9
Nice one that would be great.
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I’ve just made my own out of conduit
Will learn how to post pics from my phone on here and then I’ll post them up 👍
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Cheers gents the ranges I could be fishing are well in excess of my casting capabilities, so I think permanent markers are the way to go I've just seen the Tackle box sell a couple of models of marker pole that aren't too much so I may just get one of them or try making my own.
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