I noticed that a lot of anglers when the brakes came out, got the ones that attached to power poles. Now some anglers are going to brakes that are not on poles and you have to manually lower and lift them. I plan to get some in future and wondering if there were problems with the pole mounts.

I went with power brakes because I didn’t have power poles on my boat. I like the break away design as well. They’ve been great!

I have the power brakes. I have heard complaints from a few with them on poles about dragging the poles across timber as you are going but I have never run them personally.

The Power Brakes still drag timber occasionally but they do breakaway if they get hung up too bad. Love the power brakes. Even when fishing a brushpile the added control is nice.

To me it seemed like it would be more convenient to sit up front and use the remote to raise and lower brakes rather than pulling your trolling motor up, and then go to the back of the boat and pull up the two brakes. Kinda why I wasn't understanding why some guys where switching.