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I often here people refer to the tackle they used as a pole. Well for some that is correct. A pole is cut usually from a tree. Example would be a cane pole. Rod is what is built. Example would be a spinning rod or fly rod. I am not a snob but many would agree when someone says they are getting there fly pole to go fish smiles start to show on anglers faces.
I like the English terminology:
rod - has a reel attached to it
pole - no reel attached
Some very fine and expensive poles are "built". ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by addictedangler
Yes there are very expensive RODS. I have a few split cane fly rods. Not sure about expensive pole? Not trying to be a smart AAA but if you go into a fly shop asking to buy a fly pole I am sure there will be a few funny looks and perhaps a unkind remark or two.
European take apart POLES typically cost several thousand dollars. This top-of-the-line Daiwa pole retails for 3,999 British pounds. (That's over $6,000 at the current exchange rate.)Quote:
Originally Posted by addictedangler
Daiwa Tournament Pro X Pole
I'm happy with my "budget" pole I bought for $1,200.
... which is why fly fishing has a reputation for snobbiness. I say that as somebody who loves fly fishing.Quote:
Originally Posted by addictedangler
:Rofl .... pfffttt -- If I was to walk into a fly fishing shop, dressed as I normally do, there's no doubt I'd get funny looks & some "unkind" or off hand remarks made about me. Little would they know that I "could" afford to buy anything in the store that I wanted. But, I'm used to negative scrutiny on how I look & what I wear ... since I've been a long haired "freak" since before High School, and still wear my grey hair long & in a pony tail at the age of 66.Quote:
Originally Posted by addictedangler
I, for one, don't let the PC nomenclature of today's world dictate what I call something ... and if it strikes me the wrong way about how I'm perceived or treated, then I take my business elsewhere. I may or may not relate what I "was" going to purchase, prior to leaving that establishment. It just depends on how "froggy" I'm feeling that day, as to what level of redress I feel is appropriate.
"Expensive" is relative to the financial state of the person doing the purchase. A $1000 cane pole isn't expensive to a rich person, but a $5 one may be to a person that's financially destitute.
... cp :kewl
You rebel, you! :biggrinQuote:
Originally Posted by CrappiePappy
In fly fishing a bobber or float is a strike indecator:biggrin:highfive!! In Bass fishing if you had a float in your tackle box you was a sissy:biggrin until a guy brought a 5 fish (5 smallmouth that weighed also 30 lb's) on a float and fly and now it is ok to a have a float and fly box for smallmouth fishing!!:biggrin:Rofl:highfive
I would say where you are at regionally would have allot to do with what you call it.
is the toilet paper supposed to be put on with it hanging from the top or the bottom?? get a grip on it guys :Rofl
It's a rod if you cast with it , pole if you don't . :fish
What's the point is it a soda or a pop. Who cares hand me a cold one. Now we all know what that is .
Top and that''s not up for debate. And yes you better get a grip on it. rotflQuote:
Originally Posted by ibmack
If I paid for..Its mine..and can call it what I want! Politically correct or not...Just enjoy it!:biggrin
I call it a pole, my wife calls it a rod :biggrin
When I use to go fishing I often had nearby senior women Granma and a few grandchildren all with cane poles .Grandmas was about 20 feet long . She was very good with it and caught more fish that me . This forum about poles brought this to mind .lol.
In Texas, a pole is anything that is long and a rod is anything short. At least that is how I was raised on slang!
50+ years ago when I was a young boy this was not a hard question. A pole was a cane if we were luck to find some growing near by or just a long slender tree or limb. The old country store had hooks 2 for a penny. We used the cotton twine that the old cotton mill in our town made and we used what ever for a weight(small bolts,nuts,pieces of wheel weight,etc.) and I was lucky as my grandparents dipped garrett snuff and I would use the cork from the bottles for floats. Now for the rod, I remember when my Uncle Leonard carried me fishing with him for the first time and he had a rod or what he called a reel n rod. It had eyes on the rod for the line to run thru and a casting reel on it spooled with what we called (catgut string) which was just black nylon string. I thought to myself that this thing was going to catch everything in the pond because he could throw it way out there. Well to my surprise I caught about as many fish as he did because he spent half of his time fishing the backlash out of that old reel and boy he had some choice names he called that reel.nonono Well fishing has came a long ways in the past 50 years since then. It's even so complicated and high tech that people now don't even know the difference from a pole or a rod. Now people talk about catching a 3 pounder while back then if he was 3 fingers we eat that joker. Well enough reminiscing about the good old days. So it don't matter if it is a rod or a pole it's the fish on the end that counts.:twocents
My wife says top I say bottom on the toilet paper:banghead
Seems someone asked this question yesterday"I picked up a BnM 10' jig pole (rod) from WM yesterday that I really like. What's the difference between a jig pole and trolling rod? I would assume the trolling rod would have a little more backbone.":dono:RoflQuote:
Originally Posted by Tony the Tiger
I'm sorry for that Tony but I just could not help myself.:Rofl
A you got me there for sure
Very well said CP. My grandfather used to wear overalls, halfway fastened with little care for cleanliness and used to go buy cars at the dealerships where all the salesmen used to run away. He would pick the car out and flop down cash money to pay looking like a poor dirt farmer. I also like the way Julia Robert's character in Pretty Woman was shunned and went back and said "Big mistake...huge!!" after spending lots elsewhere...
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Originally Posted by CrappiePappy