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Tronix Tripod.

wingnut55 said:
Like I said, don't think they will be flying out of the shops. And no match angler in their right mind is going to lug a thing that size around. JMO...

Ian.
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I really hope they dont sell any.
I have nothing against tronix on a whole.
I have my personal opinions on them.
I can safely say that I own a tronix branded seat box.
But thats because its a copy of others and cost a little less. So in my eyes that was a no brainer.
My freind has a naga. I'd happily fiah with it.
Wouldnt buy one for my own personal reasons.( priced above its worth imo)
Wouldnt use their terminal tackle as had it fail before.
But I think they are now trully trying to mug people off.
 
Tronixpro buckets are pretty good and robust i must admit, and a good size too. (y)

Ian.
 
After all the replies, I was thinking that if Tronix can actually get anybody to buy one of these then good on them .
A fool and his money are easily parted and its the buyer at fault if he is taken in by all the ridiculous sales blurb.
Same thing goes for lots of fishing gear these days ,both salt and freshwater, not a lot of substance ,but marketing blinds buyers to the fact they are buying chite that already exists elsewhere for half the price and twice the value.

Dave
 
So, I work with Tronix and I shot that video.

The first thing to say is that it is designed for top-end match fishing. There is quite a lot of random stuff written online about it, but we're buying in very few of these, it's a flagship model. We know it won't sell in its hundreds. It's also all hand made in Italy, which isn't a cheap project in itself. It's like when we brought out the £1000 Pioneer rod. That project was only ever designed to sell 50 rods.

There are further videos coming out on YouTube, with information we couldn't squeeze into the Facebook video. In that video, George explains why we've done that tripod. The reason is Evo3Pod wanted to work with a tackle company in each European country to produce a branded Evo3Pod tripod system, they asked us if we'd like to be the UK brand to do it, we said yes. In Spain, they have branded up with Yuki on the same collaboration project.

In terms of weight, there is a further video coming out that will show how light it is. Gemma, one of our anglers, lifts the whole kit up with one hand to demonstrate its weight. It's made from aluminium, so it's not heavy. If you watch the Facebook video to the end, she also does the same in that video.

As is usual with product launches, there has been quite a bit of misinformation put out there. A lot of the best UK match anglers already use products from Evo3Pod that they have imported themselves. The Rig T Bar is something that most of the England team use across all ages, for example. The Evo3Pod Top Boxes, another product we have Tronixpro branded, is another popular item among match anglers.

In two weeks time, I'm shooting another video with Joe Arch and Steve Tucker about some other Evo3Pod Tronixpro collaboration projects.

Dave Barham is correct in what he says, it's not a mass market product, it was never designed to be. We know that we're not going to be selling thousands of these. It's a collaboration project that makes it easier for people to buy Evo3Pod products in the UK, rather than people having to go through the rig morale of self importing.

Having said that, we're in the middle of our trade show season currently and after that video went live, a fair few shops have bought in to it already. And we haven't got to the areas of the country I would consider "matchy" yet. :)
 
Having said the above, I know of a supplier who is presently makng hand crafted custom made Mahogany rod tripods with brass fittings, stable on all surfaces with the finest brass woodscrews holding it together , delivered wrapped in Country Life Magazine covers .

Pms to me for details guys.

Dave
 
wingnut55 said:
Like I said, don't think they will be flying out of the shops. And no match angler in their right mind is going to lug a thing that size around. JMO...

Ian.
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The rules for match fishing have likely changed since I fished matches over four decades ago, but I remember only one rod was allowed and maybe three (might have been two) hooks. We only ever took one rod with us back then, some only had one rod! Even though I was young, fit, and strong in those days I would never have tried hauling a big lump of a tripod like that a mile or so along the beach to a peggeg mark, nor on a ‘roving’ comp (we had those then).

I gather that fish are measured and/or weighed and returned these days which is a huge step in the right direction from killing everything over minimum size and hauling it to the weigh-in. As a recent returner i’m a bit ashamed of the number of fish ‘we’ killed unnecessarily back then.
 
Mike said:
So, I work with Tronix and I shot that video.

The first thing to say is that it is designed for top-end match fishing. There is quite a lot of random stuff written online about it, but we're buying in very few of these, it's a flagship model. We know it won't sell in its hundreds. It's also all hand made in Italy, which isn't a cheap project in itself. It's like when we brought out the £1000 Pioneer rod. That project was only ever designed to sell 50 rods.

There are further videos coming out on YouTube, with information we couldn't squeeze into the Facebook video. In that video, George explains why we've done that tripod. The reason is Evo3Pod wanted to work with a tackle company in each European country to produce a branded Evo3Pod tripod system, they asked us if we'd like to be the UK brand to do it, we said yes. In Spain, they have branded up with Yuki on the same collaboration project.

In terms of weight, there is a further video coming out that will show how light it is. Gemma, one of our anglers, lifts the whole kit up with one hand to demonstrate its weight. It's made from aluminium, so it's not heavy. If you watch the Facebook video to the end, she also does the same in that video.

As is usual with product launches, there has been quite a bit of misinformation put out there. A lot of the best UK match anglers already use products from Evo3Pod that they have imported themselves. The Rig T Bar is something that most of the England team use across all ages, for example. The Evo3Pod Top Boxes, another product we have Tronixpro branded, is another popular item among match anglers.

In two weeks time, I'm shooting another video with Joe Arch and Steve Tucker about some other Evo3Pod Tronixpro collaboration projects.

Dave Barham is correct in what he says, it's not a mass market product, it was never designed to be. We know that we're not going to be selling thousands of these. It's a collaboration project that makes it easier for people to buy Evo3Pod products in the UK, rather than people having to go through the rig morale of self importing.

Having said that, we're in the middle of our trade show season currently and after that video went live, a fair few shops have bought in to it already. And we haven't got to the areas of the country I would consider "matchy" yet. :)
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I'm sorry.
But there is no justification for the price of the thing.
Made in italy.
So what?
Its still a piece of angle alloy with two bits of tubing.
None of the add ons add that overall price.
The same stuff can be bought or made for a few quid.
So its only aimed at the "profesional" match angler and they dont expect to sell loads.
What a waste of resources.
That could have been made in the UK as are others at a fraction of the price.
Emperors new clothes comes to mind🫣
 
I have a skakey salt which is more than heavy enough, stable and does what is says on the tin.
 
Mike said:
So, I work with Tronix and I shot that video.

The first thing to say is that it is designed for top-end match fishing. There is quite a lot of random stuff written online about it, but we're buying in very few of these, it's a flagship model. We know it won't sell in its hundreds. It's also all hand made in Italy, which isn't a cheap project in itself. It's like when we brought out the £1000 Pioneer rod. That project was only ever designed to sell 50 rods.

There are further videos coming out on YouTube, with information we couldn't squeeze into the Facebook video. In that video, George explains why we've done that tripod. The reason is Evo3Pod wanted to work with a tackle company in each European country to produce a branded Evo3Pod tripod system, they asked us if we'd like to be the UK brand to do it, we said yes. In Spain, they have branded up with Yuki on the same collaboration project.

In terms of weight, there is a further video coming out that will show how light it is. Gemma, one of our anglers, lifts the whole kit up with one hand to demonstrate its weight. It's made from aluminium, so it's not heavy. If you watch the Facebook video to the end, she also does the same in that video.

As is usual with product launches, there has been quite a bit of misinformation put out there. A lot of the best UK match anglers already use products from Evo3Pod that they have imported themselves. The Rig T Bar is something that most of the England team use across all ages, for example. The Evo3Pod Top Boxes, another product we have Tronixpro branded, is another popular item among match anglers.

In two weeks time, I'm shooting another video with Joe Arch and Steve Tucker about some other Evo3Pod Tronixpro collaboration projects.

Dave Barham is correct in what he says, it's not a mass market product, it was never designed to be. We know that we're not going to be selling thousands of these. It's a collaboration project that makes it easier for people to buy Evo3Pod products in the UK, rather than people having to go through the rig morale of self importing.

Having said that, we're in the middle of our trade show season currently and after that video went live, a fair few shops have bought in to it already. And we haven't got to the areas of the country I would consider "matchy" yet. :)
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Thanks for the explanation Mike and appreciate it’s intended as a limited edition product, though I don’t entirely understand the logic, but their money I guess.

I still don’t really see why the price should be so high nor indeed what it adds for the ‘match angler’ when all those add ons as said are readily available now or indeed can easily be knocked up if someone was of a mind.

If it was priced at say £80 I’d consider it a reasonable entry into the higher end tripod market though at this stage we don’t have an independent review or much detail on the quality and workmanship.

Just at first glance it looks a bit flimsy to me, especially the various add ons, but admittedly without getting hands on that’s hard to tell from pictures or a video.

I wish them all the success with it but I’m struggling to see what it brings to the market, especially at that price.
 
OldGreyDog said:
The rules for match fishing have likely changed since I fished matches over four decades ago, but I remember only one rod was allowed and maybe three (might have been two) hooks. We only ever took one rod with us back then, some only had one rod! Even though I was young, fit, and strong in those days I would never have tried hauling a big lump of a tripod like that a mile or so along the beach to a peggeg mark, nor on a ‘roving’ comp (we had those then).

I gather that fish are measured and/or weighed and returned these days which is a huge step in the right direction from killing everything over minimum size and hauling it to the weigh-in. As a recent returner i’m a bit ashamed of the number of fish ‘we’ killed unnecessarily back then.
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As far as I know most matches are two rods these days? So the third rod holder is a little redundant unless they like to have a third ready to go to maximise time?

It’s a skill but ‘machine fishing’ to build huge bags of whiting and dogs etc wouldn’t appeal to me at all, but I appreciate some of them are very good at it.
 
OldGreyDog said:
The rules for match fishing have likely changed since I fished matches over four decades ago, but I remember only one rod was allowed and maybe three (might have been two) hooks. We only ever took one rod with us back then, some only had one rod! Even though I was young, fit, and strong in those days I would never have tried hauling a big lump of a tripod like that a mile or so along the beach to a peggeg mark, nor on a ‘roving’ comp (we had those then).

I gather that fish are measured and/or weighed and returned these days which is a huge step in the right direction from killing everything over minimum size and hauling it to the weigh-in. As a recent returner i’m a bit ashamed of the number of fish ‘we’ killed unnecessarily back then.
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Match fishing like in the Penn league and SSO, you can have as many rods as you like, but only one actually fishing, and three hooks max I believe..

Ian.
 
Fishlife said:
I'm sorry.
But there is no justification for the price of the thing.
Made in italy.
So what?
Its still a piece of angle alloy with two bits of tubing.
None of the add ons add that overall price.
The same stuff can be bought or made for a few quid.
So its only aimed at the "profesional" match angler and they dont expect to sell loads.
What a waste of resources.
That could have been made in the UK as are others at a fraction of the price.
Emperors new clothes comes to mind🫣
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Sorry I offended you mate.
 
Mr Fish said:
That’ll be a good legacy for them!

‘Tronixpro, ah they made great buckets!’
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Already ticked off my bucket list... 🤣

Ian.
 
Mr Fish said:
As far as I know most matches are two rods these days? So the third rod holder is a little redundant unless they like to have a third ready to go to maximise time?

It’s a skill but ‘machine fishing’ to build huge bags of whiting and dogs etc wouldn’t appeal to me at all, but I appreciate some of them are very good at it.
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Same here, I have no interest in match fishing these days. Regrettably the only way to weigh in a catch back then was to present it to the scales, dead, at the weigh-in. I used to be quite into it but nowadays I just go to enjoy the fishing, especially in the summer when I mostly chuck lures where I hope the bass will be.
 
OldGreyDog said:
Same here, I have no interest in match fishing these days. Regrettably the only way to weigh in a catch back then was to present it to the scales, dead, at the weigh-in. I used to be quite into it but nowadays I just go to enjoy the fishing, especially in the summer when I mostly chuck lures where I hope the bass will be.
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My club does roving best specimen matches which I enjoy, but then we can take pics and send in after weighing on scales checked against the certified club scales.
It’s small scale though and I realise that couldn’t work for big open events.

I’m not convinced measure and release works too well for more delicate species such as whiting and pout but I guess it’s better than heaviest bags of dead fish.

Even specimen comps we did at one time have to take the fish back to weigh, which would feel criminal these days.
 

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