Pocket Fishing Rod

Fishing is fun, exciting, and relaxing all at the same time. But the fishing poles can be a real damper on the experience. Long, cumbersome to carry around, and fragile, each one has many possible ways to break and ruin your afternoon out on the lake. What’s a fishing fan to do? One answer is a fishing rod that will fit right into your pocket. Portable and less apt to break than its traditional counterpart, a pocket fishing rod will let you cease your worries over your fishing rod and let you concentrate on the fish.

If you’d like, you can assemble a makeshift pocket fishing rod at home. Use a telescopic radio antenna for the pole, a pen (minus the cap, ink tube, and tip) for the handle, and three small washers for line guides. As for the reel, this can be made form a binder clip, two more washers, a bolt, and a nail.

Glue the antenna to the inside of the pen. Attach the line guides to points along the antenna. Then onto the reel. Put the binder clip’s two wire ends together and attach a washer at each side. Make sure the two washers’ centre holes align. Pass the bolt through them. Bend the nail in half and attach it to the bolt; it will be your handle. Then knot a regular fishing line to the bolt, spool it up, and thread it through the washers along the antenna. You’re finito.

Of course, if you’re serious about fishing and intend to use your pocket fishing rod often, then you’ll want to invest in a good quality rod. You can find plenty of these in fishing-gear stores. For example, there is one model made of aluminium, zinc, and fibreglass that rolls out of—and retracts back into—a case that’s the size and shape of a pen. Sealed in the case, it’s a mere 8 inches. Fully extended, it’s around 3 feet.

Other models have thick plastic handles but will fit easily into your glove compartment, or attach to your belt when you’re heading toward the water. These models stretch to their full lengths form out of the handles and then snap in place with automatic anti-reverse mechanisms that keep them from folding back inward. When your fishing day is over, just click the handle, the mechanism shuts off, and the rod rolls back into its closed position.

Posted August 13th, 2010 in Fishing Rods, Shopping.

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Pocket Fishing Rod

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