The Best Margin Fishing Poles

The Maver MV-RXX Margin 9m is a beast of a pole boasting incredible wall strength and the brute power to tame the biggest of margin-dwelling creatures. Created with high-grade carbon fibre to produce a responsive and lightweight feel, it incorporates all the exclusive resins and patented finishes available to Maver.

At 9m in length, it is fully compatible with all X-Series top-kits, making it a perfect companion to owners of RXX and RXS models, as well as any other pole that utilises 18mm bore top-kits. As margin poles go, the package is stunning, including three top-kits and a cupping kit, making it a fully functioning and usable pole in its own right.

To complement the new range of Superium Poles, Preston has released this superb short-range Superium Margin 8.5m pole taking the same top kits. Light and slim, you’d be fooled into thinking it’s a standard pole, but it has a lot of hidden strength and a 20+ elastic rating. 

It comes with two Superium Carp Kits (2.4m), both fully bushed up with Roller Pulla kits and PTFEs, plus a holdall. There’s an extension section that takes the pole to 10m available.

Superb Superium performance and balance. A great place to start your pole fishing journey, or back up an existing pole.

Built on the same mandrel and using the same advanced carbon technologies as its illustrious MTX V2 stablemates, Matrix’s seven-sectioned powerhouse MTX2 V2 Margin 2 11m pole is strong enough for any commercial fishery.

With MST layering technology, Glide anti-friction taped sections which lock reassuringly together, reinforced 1k carbon weave joints and protective nose cones in the No3 and No4 sections, it also comes with a mini extension. The three top kits are pre-fitted with PTFE bushes and Revolve Side Pullers. Carry sleeve included. 

At 11m this is not just a margin tool, but a complete power pole and a perfect partner to complement any other MTX packages.

The Guru A Class 5.5m margin pole is a fantastic pole for those who just want an out and out bagging pole and don't tend to fish far out. It will cope with the biggest of fish on commercials thanks to its 400 tensile carbon sections, it has been designed for durability, strength and performance.

The butt sections feature a super glide paint finish and a friction free matt tape Finish on the thinner sections, both combined significantly improves speed and efficiency, even during those tricky conditions when wet sticky hands can slow you down. 

The pole only weighs 335g and performs really well, it is also available in an 8m version fro those who like to fish a little further out.

Tri-Cast thought outside the box with this Excellence Power Margin 10m pole, looking for something capable of extracting huge fish from long corner margins – the sort of areas that standard margin poles can’t reach. Being so strong means that the balance isn’t great at full length, but it’s fishable. But a section less at 11.7m, you get the sort of feel rivalled only by the best margin poles. 

The top kits are a little different, being very short and powerful. Supplied with two top kits, cupping kit and a bag, and available at 10m, 11.7m and 13.4m.

Fish the margins that no-one else can reach! A serious carp extraction tool.

The Preston Innovations Edge Monster Margin 8.5m pole is strong enough to knock the stuffing out of the largest of carp, while retaining sufficient balance and rigidity to be comfortably fished at its full length. The all-carbon Edge comes with a spare Power top-2 kit in addition to the one included, both of which are pre-fitted with Roller Pulla side bushes, and large-diameter PTFE tip bushes. Also available at 10m.

It’s one of the best-selling margin poles for a reason! Superbly strong and balanced, it comes pre-fitted with a puller system.

"The Edge Monster oozed strength, and I could pile on the pressure knowing that the fish would give up long before the pole did," read our full review here.

Anglers looking to gain an edge down the edge need look no further than the ultra-powerful MAP TKS Competition Power Margin 8.7m pole. With added reinforcement on every slim section, it’s built to take plenty of stick.

Features include depth markers on the top kits, and a section alignment system. To that you can add pre-bushed tips and pre-fitted side pullers, a smooth anti-friction finish throughout, and a spare Power kit.

TKS stands for ‘Top Kit System’, so you don’t just get a margin pole, but more top kits for your main pole! Everything about this pole feels right.

Daiwa’s Tournament Pro X Margin 9m was designed as a compatible section ‘power partner’ for all of the company’s UK-built poles. With a high wall strength in its lower sections to ensure the no-nonsense treatment of big carp, it comes with two spare 5.8m Interlastic Cloud Kits that can be used with elastics as heavy as Red Hydro. One of the longer margin models on the market, it can reach along to the next platform with ease.

If you already own a UK-built Daiwa pole, then this is this is the choice for you! Not only can you share top kits and a cupping with your main pole, but also the bigger sections should you suffer a breakage.

Fans of the iconic French brand should make this super strong Garbolino UK Margin Pro 8m pole, compatible with the full UK series of poles, their first port of call. Billed as its best ever margin pole, made with state-of-the-art IM/HM carbon, it’s capable of easily handling the biggest of carp and strongest of elastics. 

Considering the superb rigidity and balance, the price is exceptionally good, the payoff being that you do only get one top kit supplied.

If quality rather than top kits is your aim, pound for performance, you’ll struggle to find better.

Built on the same mandrel as the Acolyte Pro Carp, the Drennan Acolyte Pro Margin carp 9.5m is even stronger. At 9.5m long, it comes with a reversible mini extension, two Margin Kits and even a Ghost Margin kit – a white coloured top kit designed not to spook fish. You also get a range of bushes, puller beads and roller cones, along with skid bungs, EVA nose cones, a pole pot and a bag.

With three top kits and a load of extras, all you need is a rig and some elastic and it’s ready to fish.

Specially designed to hook, hold and extract the biggest of margin fish from the fiercest of edge pegs, the Maver Signature Pro Power 1000 10m is not a pole for the faint-hearted! Boasting incredible wall strength, the Maver team managed to land some huge fish to over 20lb in testing.

Ideally suited to 18 -20 Dual core or Tri Core elastics, you get two pre-bushed and slotted Power kits, a cupping kit with cups and a bag with this 10m model. As an added bonus, Definition, MV-R performance, MV-R Competition, Oculus XS and Signature 821/921 top kits are all compatible.

Longer than most, with an included cupping kit, it’s the perfect stand-alone margin pole for those without a match pole.

Looking for a turbo-charged margin pole? Middy’s latest White-Knuckle Thriller V3 has power to burn.
The fully take-apart composite 8.5m pole weighs in at a modest 799g, but don’t be fooled – its solid build still merits a powerful 24 elastic rating.

Other key features include a reversible mini- extension, and it comes with a pre-elasticated top-2 inside the pole and an elasticated spare top-2 kit.

A great margin pole in its own right, but the clincher is that we have spotted a number of retailers selling these at bargain prices! What about 8.5m and ready to fish for under £100? How could we say no?