Fishing rods

[MrPatrick]

Poles are from Warsaw.

[Aaron&Julie]

Rod.
I started fishing at age 5 with a willow pole up in Idaho that I picked out and cut down on my own, through the tutelage of my grandfather. It was maybe 7 feet long, which I added 6 feet of 8lb test, a single split shot, and eagle claw hook. I dug the earth-worms myself. It worked great in the creeks up there. And I started out fishing my grandfather right away, with his fancy push-button Zebco and assortment of artificials.
I view a pole as being all encompassing, whereas a rod might infer a man-made product with guides, handle, etc.
Aaron

[dorado50]

Some pretty funny comebacks!! LOL...I think Aaron nailed it..but I do like the pole holder

[WahooUSMA]

Originally Posted by wiseguy

I like my fish on the end of my rod, and my woman dancing on the pole!

Or on your pole!

[wiredantz]

Originally Posted by Iceman

This is a pole.........

lol, i was liking this commercial for a few secs

[Gino]

We always called them "fishin poles" But i have a good Dixie influence.

BTW down south, they dont ban fishing. And Women troll fishing tournys lookin for men.

[Fiskadoro]

Rods or fishing poles?

In the old days everything was a pole, but when I was a kid fishing in Texas you heard both. The general rule was glass blanks were rods, cane poles for crappie fishing, snook poles and surf rods built from Calcutta were called poles.

Cane poles were light weight cane used for bank fishing.



Snook poles were made from a plantation grown high density bamboo that came from I think the Yucatan. I don't know why but everyone called them Calcutta poles.

For snook you'd rig a short piece of wire to a jig or lure which you'd the drop "Doodlesock" around bridge and pier pilings at night.



No reels with that rig, you'd hook the fish and bounce them up on the pier.

Back in the day it was very hard to find a heavy blank over ten feet long that wasn't extremely expensive so we took big twelve an fourteen foot Calcutta poles and wrapped surf poles with guides reel seats "varmacs" and twine for grips. I could not find a picture of one but it was old school.

When Fenwick and Harnell came out with more big blanks the price dropped and everyone eventually went to glass, but I still remember back in 1973 when I had both: two twelve foot Calcutta's and a 542 Harnell.

They were the first big rods I wrapped, and I took them by the baitshop in Corpus where I got the bamboo. The owner looked them all over and said nice poles, but that is one hell of a nice rod. Like I said bamboo were poles while Harnells and Fenwicks were rods.


I eventually broke the two poles on fish as they would fatigue over time, one on a bull red and the other on a blacktip, but still have that Harnell...


.....just snapped that pic, still with the original grips and reel seat 37 years later.

Damned if I know what to use it for these days, but I still like the thing anyway.

So that's my take. Bamboo poles, Glass, Graphite, composites, rods

Jim

[dorado50]

Right on! My dad still to this day says he "don't need no bait,just spit on the hook". I have'nt tried his method yet!

[Amish Ed]

As a deckhand I was taught that poles are for freshwater and rods for salt. Me I like rod.

[wiredantz]

Under a hundred equals fishing POLE. Over a hundred equals fishing ROD.

[CalicoCody]

Originally Posted by Amish Ed

As a deckhand I was taught that poles are for freshwater and rods for salt. Me I like rod.

That's a good way to put it.

... but as for me, ROD it is.

[THE DARKHORSE]

Maybe if the guys who've spent thousands of hours on the water wrote more superfluous posts---ya' know, guys who know what they're talking about and actually go fishing (Dorado50)---we wouldn't have to rely on the 'know nothing know it all' members so heavily.

Good work, Dave. I like your' style.


It makes no difference to me whether guys prefer to label them as a rod or pole; mine's simply an extension of my arm.

[Billy V]

When I'm on the East Coast I call them Fishing Poles...

On the West Coast I call them Rods.