I MUST join this group!!! I will get the information on my telescopic long rod later.

Cool idea!!!!!

NOW THIS IS WHERE I BELONG!!!!!!!

ssshhh........The Easter Bunny is bring 3 new 10' longpoles for the kids next Sunday. How do I know this? The Easter Bunny just got home from the Sport Shop.........

Longpole you have 3 lucky kids

Theres a guy down the street who has a big patch of bamboo in his yard.You guys got me thinking I should go down there ,introduce myself and ask if it would be too presumptuous to ask him if I could pick myself out a cane pole.

Heres an Idea about all that bamboo! If the stalks are big enough. You can make a stake bed out of it. 30 to 40 pcs about 10 ft works great. Just stake em all off with in a foot or two in a circle square half moon or what ever other design may tickle your fancy. You will end up with an awsume set of structure and all it costededed you was a lil time and maybe gettin a new fishin buddy.

Sounds like a lot of time ... although well spent.What the bamboo wont work as a pole?

Heck yea it will work for a pole. You can buy you a $10 fiberglass telescopic pole, go the easy rout and just cut some bamboo. or make you a beautiful stick out of it. Theres alot of work into makin a quality stick from the bamboo. You can get them for 3 to 8 bucks in 2 pc sections or do the work yourself and fish with the pride of I DID THAT! The big ole stocks with the time put in to make a cane brake reef put off great. Its up to how much he wants you to have and how much work you wanna put in.

Longpole
How did the kids like their new poles.

Heres my biggest catch on a long pole so far. You wanna talk about fun! WOOOOHOOOO What a fight. I had to throw the pole in the water to keep him from breaking it. Chased him back down with the trollin motor and faught him some more. They call him a BOWFIN!

That's a big bowfin! It will break a pole easily! Wise to let pole go and follow it!

My ole lady thought I was crazy when I trowed the pole in the water but much to her suprise a cool lesson learned. ITS FLOATING ITS FLOATING she replied. Thats a lil trick an old timer taught me for landin those big cats and bass that occasionally bite!

I got my first long pole catch today. Six sunnies.