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I have been fishing wit ha cane pole in years. I love simple methods. Handline fishing is as simple as it gets, but there are many times were a simple cane pole will out do the handline.
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I have been fishing wit ha cane pole in years. I love simple methods. Handline fishing is as simple as it gets, but there are many times were a simple cane pole will out do the handline.
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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.
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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)
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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 .
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I am amazed at how people have fixated on complicated methods of fishing, thinking that is the only thing that exists in the universe.
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Still use cane, sometimes, but have several collapsible bug poles too. Best "cane" type pole I have, is an old hollow fiberglass CB antenna. Small piece of 3/4 PVC slid over it and glued, for a handle and a large cork bobber, with a hole drilled through it, for a hand stop. Made by an old friend of mine, now gone on, that knew more about fish than johna. (Fish on Zack!)
Brother has a patch of cane growing in the front yard. Cut one now and again and dry it in short pieces of pvc attached to the underside of the carport.
Yepper, Podunk this boy is! Drives the bride crazy.....but I like to make stuff work. Lots of joy catching something on a pole you make.
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