Featherweight!
Meet the Fox Rangemaster 20: the world’s cheapest carbon throwing stick
Bait delivery sure has moved on, hasn’t it? Back when CARPology was still splattering zits all over bathroom mirrors, throwing sticks were just pieces of plastic tubing or bent metal. Well, no more where Fox is concerned.
Although the Essex-based company aren’t the first to produce an all-carbon throwing stick (Daiwa did it back in 2007), they are the first to (a) improve the same design concept which every manufacturer follows and (b) make it so we can all actually afford to buy one.
So let’s start with the price. At £79.99 it’s well below the now-common £100 retail price point of their competitors, but it still is, in anyone’s language, a lot of money, however, what you are getting is something very, very special. As you’d expect, being made from carbon it means it’s incredibly light, and we promise you, you’ll be genuinely shocked at how different it feels compared to the traditional metal/plastic sticks. It really is ‘featherweight’.
In itself, this ultra-lightweight nature is a massive advantage. Being so size-zero it means you can ‘stick’ boilies for a much longer perios of time without getting severe arm-ache which, as CARPology is a big lover of using large amounts of boiled food, we can see the real appeal of carbon.
In the now-traditional way of Fox, they’ve also added one or two clever twists. The R20 features a handy loading port which is positioned just above the handle. This port makes it much easier and faster to load the stick and as a result, it allows you to keep up a much more consistent rhythm when putting out a large quantity of bait. A further design feature that Fox have added is the oval-shape handle section (the stick is one-piece, not a handle glued to a stick like so of their competitor’s offerings) and therefore this ensures the stick stays facing perfectly straight at all times while also greatly aiding in accuracy.
In summary? It weighs practically nothing; it’s designed to greatly improve accuracy and it’s miles cheaper than the others available. What’s not to like?
