You think you hate tangles get you an 18 foot pole in a rig less than 22 foot long. I hate long poles. I run a 14, 12, 8, and a 4'10" when running eight and leave off the 14 when running 6. I can turn pretty hard without tangling most of the time.
Spider rigging I use 12s and fixxin to go to 14s, don't want no 16s personnally