I have a few... But then I am a vintage fisherman.The two the bottom right are automatic fly reels. The 4 on the left are my old Johnson's. Years ago I gave a good friend 3 Johnson Century's as a retirement gift. Wish I had them today.
^ they aren't made of "cane"....I am 58 and they were my grand father's.
Nope... but good idea! They aren't copper or any other metal.
I see Shakespeare has a modern version called the "wonderpole"Most common are 13' but they offer a 20'er.Might have to pick me up one.
I still have a Mitchell 300 or 2.......My father and I used them back in the 60's....I had mine on a Garcia 7' medium taper light action rod.Caught many a bass from Central Florida lakes....Then he bought me an Orvis.........it made obnoxious scraping sounds......FWIW.........the spool in the OP's pic is grossly underloaded with line....that would hurt casting distance...
David NAILED IT!Randy, at first I was going to say "No".To me a "cane pole" is sections of bamboo cane that slide into one another.Their ends have a metal male and female that slide into one another like this.When I tried googling info on mine, I see many folks call them "Cane Poles". These are "Zip Poles" and were made right here in Indiana.They are "telescopic" and have 4 sections that are 5' long each. Fully extended they are just under 20' long!Grand-Dad used fly line (floating-weight forward) with a mono filament leader and a "popper" on the end. The cool part of fishing with these is you cast them similar to a "Fly Rod" technique (ripe tomato on a stick) and get that long roll.But when you get a fish on all you have to do is raise the pole vertical and the pan fish is delivered right to your hand.