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I had the same "dilemma" a few years ago. Buy a cheap one for France or pay the 100 euros the fishery wanted to rent one for the week. I ended up buying a cheapie off of Amazon, (picture below), and used it for two years without any problem at all. I subsequently sold it one last year when I treated myself to a decent boat and the new owner is still using it. To be honest, I'd never have used it on a fishery over here for fear of ridicule, but on a lake exclusive in France???? The only ones that saw it were my family and they thought it was great fun, as did the Bailiff. We ended up christening it "HMS Gonads" lol! It did the job, got my bait to some difficult places that I couldn't cast to, and my biggest fish of the week was caught using it. As I say, I've got a decent boat now, but faced with the situation again, I'd do exactly the same.

You do know I'm really Jim Shelley don't you???? 😉

I'd use that over here no probs, couldn't give a toss what anybody else thought.

Absolutely! It's still going strong, some 3 years on. Well worth the dosh.

I can see why you wouldn't use it on your normal water!! Lol As you said it served its purpose, nice

To be fair the reviews on Amazon are really good, I was gonna hire one for France in the summer but it will cost at least a oner for the week. Might as well buy one of these.