A Fishing Pole, or is it a Rod ?

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Just looking for some discussion.

Bill :wink
 
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You started this Bill

If you look up "rod" on the Merriam-Webster WEB site you get the following
: a pole with a line and usually a reel attached for fishing

Look up pole and as close as you can get is
: a long slender usually cylindrical object (as a length of wood)

How's that for ambiguity

I have fly rods and spinning rods but have always fished with fishing poles.

stevej
 
Well, I'm guilty of having called a rod a pole. I fished with an older gentleman for a few years that changed that for me. Every time I said fishin pole, he said rod.

Now, it is imprinted behind my forehead "Rod." :lol: But I have to give those who prefer to call a rod a pole an out by telling them, if they paid less than $50, it probably is a pole. :wink

Thinking back many years, bamboo poles were used for fishing and even today in Japan, they use long tapered graphite poles with a line attached to the tip and fish very effectively. Those poles are very very light. I saw that in Kyoto and was very impressed (no catch & release, only catch and cook).

Bill
 
Less than $50, call it a pole

$50 to $100, call it a rod

more than $100, call it a weapon. :thup
 
These guys did pretty well with poles, not rods, Bill. "Chicken of the Sea" boats out of San Diego.


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Don,

Those are poles alright. And, they worked great.

more than $100, call it a weapon.
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I like that. I would presume "self defense."

Bill
 
I'd bet that if you were the one who caught the biggest, best or most, YOU get to decide what to call it.

Bill
 
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