taco 15' telescoping rigger poles

[Tyke]

does anyone find the taco 15' telescoping outrigger poles to be too bendy when doulbe rigger? just curious they seem to be a popular pole but someone pointed out to me that they looked to bendy in a couple pics i have of my boat and i have them double rigged just curious if these are too bendy of a pole or is it just the angle of the pic? what are others experiences with these poles?

[Tyke]

oh yeah, i drag around a 3 foot titanium spreader bar rigged with 14 11 inch squid and 1 13 inch stinger off each one short and one long. it was my understanding that these outriggers could handle that load but maybe i'm wrong......???????

[DJMattHeckman]

does anyone find the taco 15' telescoping outrigger poles to be too bendy when doulbe rigger? just curious they seem to be a popular pole but someone pointed out to me that they looked to bendy in a couple pics i have of my boat and i have them double rigged just curious if these are too bendy of a pole or is it just the angle of the pic? what are others experiences with these poles?

I could've sworn I saw this boat @ the Montauk Marine Basin the last few weeks of summer-crazy looking center console with some sort of custom chair?

[seaworm1]

I ran 1 1/2in thick 15ft tigress outriggers on my last boat, they do bend a bit when double rigged, but it looks like they are doing thier job just fine. There's only so much beef to those poles

[stew]

They look fine to me. Without spreaders on them, all outriggers will bend. My 15ft Taco's bend almost as much as yours in the picture, and mine are non-telescopic. Capt. Eric

[ember]

Ive come to consider small boat outriggers pretty much a consumable item. Currently running the Taco telescopic 1 1/2 x 15 and Im not really blown away.If I get 3 seasons or so out of them....Ill be ecstatic. Be glad we aren't towing the old Moldcraft squid any more....

[Tyke]

alright good to hear they look normal cuz someone in another post commented on those pics and i just wanted to make sure they looked right cuz after i looked at the pics again i started to question if they could get the job done correctly or if i was mislead in my purchase.....but seems as if everything is a ok!!