Thread: Old Cane Pole!

Great video! I love fishing with an old cane pole too. That one you have there is nice! Mine were always the plain old bamboo cane poles. A few years ago not long after my wife and I were married we lived in an apartmen complex near Dallas, TX. A single mom with her son lived across the way from us. I took her son fishing once. I had a cane pole and he had a spinning rod and reel. He could not get his head around how I could catch fish with something like that. I showed him how and he caught a couple of nice bluegills with it.

Used to do that with my 10' & 12' collapsible rods ... back when I fished the buck bushes at Barkley Lake (back in the mid 1970's). Cortland Dacron 14lb test for main line, 8lb test Stren clear/blu leader / #2 Aberdeen hook / #4 split-shot / big minner ... slip float set at depth of the length of the leader, which was usually no more than 12-18" long. Pulled many a Slab out of those bushes, even when I had to hoist them out of bushes that were 3-4ft high above the water.



Picture is from 1973 (I was 25yo )

Works as well as any that rod holds a hook,line , sinker with and without cork/sinker . Everything below water surface is the same . The older guys on Enid were spider rigging with 16,18,20 ft cane not many years ago .

I am amazed at how people have fixated on complicated methods of fishing, thinking that is the only thing that exists in the universe.