Thanks for sharing the info, I think it's cool that FL allows that. I haven't used a canepole since I was a kid-- I caught my first big'n on one! It was a channel cat. More recently, in '00, to be exact, I saw quite a few folks using canepoles in a backwater (duckpond is the technical term I think) off of the Cumberland R. in TN, not far from the Cumberland City steam plant. I was using ultralight spinning gear & wasn't catching nearly as many, & the ones I did get were little. The guys who were doing the best were bankfishing & had canepoles that were at least 12 feet long. They were dropping live minnows down around the end of some laydown timber in a few feet of water. The crappies they were yanking in were big, some over 2 lbs I'm pretty sure.
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Thoreau