Here's a funny happening. Power-Poles are a huge deal from the tour level on down. They're a mechanical anchoring system that drops a spike down to bottom to hold the boat. But be careful where you sink it, because you never know what it might spear. Case in point: Alton Jones at the Pickwick Elite Series.
"I picked my Power-Pole up and my marshal goes, 'Oh, look at that.' I looked back and I had skewered the rotting carcass of a 15-pound carp," Jones said. "The thing was stinking and I had to carry it around for a while – it was speared right through the gillplate. We were probably chumming after that – it left a slime trail behind my boat for 45 minutes."
Jones joked that he not only leads the B.A.S.S. Angler of the Year (AOY) race, but the Power-Pole Carp points as well.
