I like the English terminology:
rod - has a reel attached to it
pole - no reel attached
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.
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.)
Daiwa Tournament Pro X Pole
I'm happy with my "budget" pole I bought for $1,200.
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.... 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.
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
In fly fishing a bobber or float is a strike indecator!! In Bass fishing if you had a float in your tackle box you was a sissy 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!!
John 3:16
Blessed to have as many friends as fingers on your hand is a blessing!!!
"Gone fish'n not wish'n"
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I would say where you are at regionally would have allot to do with what you call it.