Might appear a bit expensive, but it’s a quality piece of kit. Very lightweight due to the carbon construction. From a very compact starting point, it’s amazing how much length the handle extends to (even though you know how far it’s meant to extend!) and it does it with ease. Took a bit of getting used to retracting it in the right order to get it back to its fully retracted position; to be honest, that’s my only complaint…not having some basic instructions. Only been on the one brief river outing and blanked, so yet to get feedback from the fish, but the rubber mesh is good quality and hopefully they’ll appreciate it’s fish friendliness!