Started with Cane , then 7 dollar a piece telescopic rods 25 years ago . Anything that will hold a line and bait will work . Fish know nothing about boats/ rods . I now use B/M and Southern . Fish taste the same .lol
Curious as to what rods people are using and if you all have experience with telescoping rods for crappie.
Started with Cane , then 7 dollar a piece telescopic rods 25 years ago . Anything that will hold a line and bait will work . Fish know nothing about boats/ rods . I now use B/M and Southern . Fish taste the same .lol
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Use to use a 10' & 12' telescoping fiberglass poles to dip a minner under a slip float into the "buckbrush" of KY & Barkley lakes back in the 1970's
Still use 13' BPS Uncle Bucks Deluxe telescoping rods as part of my jig/crank Pushing array, in more recent years.
Pretty sure I had a telescoping spinning rod at some point in between those times.
They all worked, and they all caught fish.
Were you referring to any particular type of telescoping rods in your query ??
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check this out on using a 24' telesopic rod
Livescoping crappie with a 24' rod! - YouTube
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Do you want the rod to have guides on it? Do you want a graphite rod? Those are the key questions, IMO.
Most telescopic rods are fiberglass and don’t have guides. (They’re basically fiberglass cane poles.)
Most crappie rods over 6’ are 2 or 3-piece rods (like your fly rod), but they’re not telescopic.
In a “true” telescopic rod, it has guides, but they’re movable so the rod can collapse down. See here:
https://www.crappie.com/crappie/main...escoping-rods/
… and here:
2.1M Fishing Rod Ultralight Carbon Fiber Telescopic Portable Sea Spinning Pole 600685355015 | eBay
Last edited by fredo; 07-26-2022 at 08:04 AM.
I'm really glad to see all these questions...these were all the same questions I had and found that the Blackwell Combo rod and reel, although shorter than many, at 6'9", it hit all the others...portability, graphite, guides, strength, sensitivity at the end, (for me fishing on the shore) or boat. But time and use will tell...