Cane pole fishing..

[Poopers]

I want to get into cane pole fishing...only with a fiberglass pole instead of actual cane. Im having issues finding them online and suspect its because fiberglass poles arent called cane poles..


Anyone know of "alternate" names for fiberglass cane poles? Thanks

[Graybeard]

Crappie poles  or bream poles is what the are usually called. Cabela's carries a good selection of them.

Put in crappie poles at the Cabela's search and you'll get a bunch of them. Here is the link if it works:

http://www.cabelas.com/catalog/search.cmd?form_state=searchForm&N=0&fsch=true&Ntk=AllProducts&Ntt=crappie+poles&WTz_l=Header%3BSearch-All+Products&x=5&y=11

[Poopers]

Thanks a bunch.

[Ranger99]

you'll like fishing this way. . . .


i went yesterday-had a blast!


that's the way that i grew up fishing,
and i didn't use any rod or reel until
i was older


of course, back then, they were "cane"
poles and most of the stuff we used
then you can't find anymore
(the same hooks maybe)


best way to fish with minimum gear and investment


like gb sez, cabela's or bass pro should have what you
need


good luck and post again if you don't find what you want,
may be someone here can help

[jpshaw]

Straight poles are used around Louisiana even for Bass.  I allows a unique way of presenting the bait without a lot of splash.  Plus you can drop that plastic worm into a hole you could never cast into much less reel out of.  I keep one set up for bream, one for crappie "bigger hook",  one for crappie with jig and one for bass which has a real short line.  The telescoping ones are real convenient since you can calapse them down, then wrap the excess line around the two "keepers" and it will fit into yours trunk or behind the seat of your truck.

[jpshaw]

Not to mention that these poles only have a little "eye" at the end so I connect my lines with snap swivels.  That way I can have several lines already set up an hanging on the side of our utility shed down by Cane River Lake.  Just unsnap one line and snap on another.  I can switch between shinners to jigs, to Bass in just seconds.  Cane River Lake was a river that was damned at both ends so now it's a Lake.

[Zcarp2]

At the risk of showing my ignorance, Grandpa's cane poles always had the line wrapped from the base to the tip.  Little more line, unroll the pole.  When I asked him about this, he said that big fish might break the pole, so you tie the line to the bottom.
 
Using your snap swivels, sounds like you have never broken a pole?  Any issues with the bigger fish?  You use a net?
 
Got a little girl that prefers the cane pole, just like her Grandma.  Thanks for the information, I am trying to rig up 2 of the collapsable poles.

[Ranger99]

my pawpaw used to tie line like that,
but it was from the tip down to about
18-24 inches from the tip. that was
because we used real cane poles and
if the tip got brittle, it might snap off
with a big fish and if tied back you could
save your fish and rigging. i don't tie
off my line with my fiberglass poles.
i've never saw a need to. i've caught
some good-sized fish on 'em, and they've
done a good job as far as flex and strength.
on some newer fiberglass poles, i've noticed
the joints aren't wrapped, so if yours are
not wrapped, you may want to wrap them
with some nylon thread for reinforcement
and put some finish over the wraps.
all the modern poles i have are just attached
to the eye on the tip with a big loop
in the line and a catspaw. i generally
use a line maybe 6-12 inches longer than
the pole and don't let any out extra
or take any up while fishing.
good luck

[Soilman]

What a great idea, using a snap swivel at the end!  I never though of that.
Zcarp, yeah, on real cane poles, that is pretty much standard practice, to attach the back end of the line to the base of the pole.  However, with a telescopic fiberglass pole, that isn't practical, if even possible.
 
I love my bream busters.  I still have a few old "Lew Childers" bream busters that I got many years ago.  Wish that company was still in operation.

[keith44]

I haven't fished like that for years, the last time or one of the last times I went I caught a 12" across turtle.  The fiberglass pole was strong enough to hoist the turtle out of the water without using a net.  Be careful using cut bait when fishing for catfish in small lakes.

[Western Ky guy]

To bad none of you live near me. I got about a dozen cured REAL cane poles all about 15 ft long. I cut them a few years ago while on a survey job. I wish I had a quarter for every fish I caught as a kid with a cane pole and one of those red and white bobbers.

[flintlock]

Remember laying in bed at night, after a good day fishing and still seeing the cork go down when you closed your eyes???

[Ranger99]

we didn't have the red and white
plastic bobbers when i was little.
we had those quill bobbers or
some made with a painted cork
body and a red painted stick that
ran through it.
those were probably ten cents or
less apiece. the store still sold
hooks and lead weights by the
piece also. at the time, you could
still go in and buy shotgun and
.22 shells by the piece also. by
the time i was old enough to shoot
guns, they'd quit doing that.

[twoshooter]

Wally world has some of those also, I think called Durango (?) maybe, from 10 to 13 feet and they are with Crappie fishing stuff. I semi- cheated, they make some also that have a ferrule built into the end of each section so you have 3 or 4 eyes to run line through. The cost was less than $10 I keep one in the pickup with a midget tackle box just in case.

[Dixiejack]

Usually find telescoping fiberglass poles at your local bait shop and you are helping to keep a family owned local business open. 

[maddogg]

If we had a large fish on, which was usually a carp, we would just throw the pole in and follow it with the boat.

[Dixiejack]

About 5 or 6 years ago I was pitching flies along the bank edge of a 30 acre pond  when I got up close to an older couple sitting in their lawn chairs fishing off the bank. The old gentlemen ask me if I would mind retrieving a fiberglass pole that he thought a catfish took his bait and took off with his pole that he had laid down to bait up another pole rig.


I trolled out aways and got the pole. I tried to lift the line and at first thought it was hung up on a stump, but the line started moving.  I figured it was a big catfish and I just trolled back to the old man and slid the pole back to him, not wanting to take away his pleasure of landing a big cat. 


Well, he couldn't lift what was hooked either, so he ask me if I would use my landing net to snag the monster as he pulled in the line. I did, and scooped up a large mouth bass that weighed a shade under 10 lbs.on my scales. She had a big belly full of roe.


His wife made him throw her back, saying that bass was to big to eat.  He sure didn't want to.

[streak]

Remember laying in bed at night, after a good day fishing and still seeing the cork go down when you closed your eyes???

Yea flintlock!
I did that many times!! I also had a real neat Quill bobber with a real bright orange stem through it! It was real neat to see that " little puppy" slip and slide down into the depths.
Back in those days in N.W. Louisiana we cut our own cane poles and used that old black braided fishing line that they made way back when!! But we still pulled in a lot of bream and crappie!! Normally used " Georgia Wigglers" or crickets!!

[RaySendero]

I want to get into cane pole fishing...only with a fiberglass pole instead of actual cane. Im having issues finding them online and suspect its because fiberglass poles arent called cane poles..


Anyone know of "alternate" names for fiberglass cane poles? Thanks

 
I use cane poles cut from my back yard. Rig'em with a 20lbs test starting from about 4' from the tip, up to the tip and then down to about 3' from the bottom of the pole where I put on a bobber then tie on a swivel.  From that swivel, I tie on a lighter short line with the hook and weight.  This way if get hung at the wt or hook and break off - It breaks the lighter line and I don't have to re-rig the whole pole.  Twice a I've had a unexpected heavy fish break the pole tip! - But didn't lose the fish with that heavy line tied 4' down the pole.