I have a 45 degree Cisco mount for my LiveScope pole for my boat. That thing is rock solid. It all depends what you want to mount on it whether to go plastic or aluminum.
My Lund Sport brackets have held up very, very well. My brackets have lasted 10 years without one ever breaking and I use them alot. I have 11 of them mounted around my boat, eight for rod holders and 3 for holding Rapala tool kits (1 on each side of the boat and 1 up front). I love them. Anywhere I happen to be fishing in my boat, I can have rod holders pliers or cutters within arm’s reach and I can easily adjust any of them to exactly where I want them.
I got an email from Lund this morning too with a video about the new bracket design and I think it looks really good.
Sure they’re much quicker to attach and adjust, but that’s about it IMO.
All of the load has to go thru one single point of contact now where the steel t-bolt is. On the old ones the stress from the load was well distributed over the entire length of the sliders. Now its all concentrated. I bet they wobble a lot, and will stress crack relatively quickly where the plastic meets that bolt.
Well, since I won’t ever be using them I’ll leave my judgment with my initial opinion based on the videos and photos I’ve seen. I bought the 4-pack of the extrem max brackets yesterday for about 1/2 the cost. They look much better to me.