Travel Rods in a Canvas Carrying Bag - May 2023

[El Pescador]

Everyone,

This email & photos from a prolific poster - Donnnyboat in Western AU.

Hi Wayne,
 
I tripped over these rods, in a canvas carry bags, that takes 3 rods that are in a tube, the carry bag also has a handle & shoulder strap, with an umbrella & a metre long extension, with a point at one end,

I managed to get 2 rods out of the 3, one is 9 M & the other is 6.5 M, one has a small length broken on the tip, & the other on tip has a loop threaded on it, the loop is about 5/8 or 16mm long,

the rods don't have any guide, so I am thinking, that you tie a leader to the loop of about 8 m on the 9 M rod, maybe with a wood float, so the float hits the water, maybe using a barbless hook, to pivot the fish to the fisho, or over his shoulder.

Maybe someone on the forum can fill us in more, the bag also had 2 other rods in it, they are very light, with only a collar to slide over the reel foot,@ both ends of the reel,

these 2 rods are about 12 Ft or 4M long, owe by the way,

I paid AU$30:00 (approx. $20 US) for the lot, could not get them into the car fast enough, yee Ha,

I will send more pics later,

cheers Don.





Don, YOU've Been Posted!!!!!

Wayne

[Shellbelly]

The last time I saw that many sections for a very long rod, it was a carp rod.  Here, some crappie rods are one-piece, 10-12', maybe longer, and have a small hand crank.  The line is internal until at or near the tip through one guide.

The lines of gear created for carp fishing are comprehensive and amazing.  It's a very serious pursuit in the UK. 

[Donnyboat]

Thanks a million Wayne, to bizz today for more pics, I will also try to take some pics of the carry bag, cheers Don.

[boon]

Yeah, they're carp/coarse fishing rods. You don't put a leader on them, more like a length of special elastic with a very short leader on the end of that, then when you get a bite you fight the fish with a combination of the rod and the spring in the elastic. Generally speaking you deploy/retrieve the entire operation by removing sections from the rod and pull thing the whole thing towards you. Very specialist equipment.

[Brewcrafter]

Don - Thanks so much for sharing!  I will say this, whether it is fish with blue bones (what were those again?  I seem to recall you said they were tasty?) , or some really unusual tackle like this you always seem to have something fun going on!  Thanks you Sir! - john

[El Pescador]

2 more photos from Don!!

And Don, this is the first time we see your Golf Putting Green in your back lawn!!!

From Don:

Hi Wayne,

 one pic of the base of the 9m rod, also the diameter of the rod base,

plus a picture of the loop on the rod tip, may have to enlarge it (I Did),

to see it, more pics to come of the carry back,

cheers Don.






Wayne

[Donnyboat]

Thanks to you all for the history of these rods, all new to me, thanks again Wayne, I did send you the pics of the carry bag, but for some reason or other the post master sent it back to me, I will try again later, Yes sir John Toby, the blue bone grouper, Tuskfish, there is about 17 different species of them, but that one, in  the mid west of West Aussie, is the only one that has all the special colouring, including the multi colours in the eyes, & is on a par, for eating as the West aussie Dhu fish, the golf green back lawn, is artificial turf, know good of getting older if you dont wiser, & the bottle greats, with the 26 fl/ounce bottles, is for the home brew. cheers Don.

[El Pescador]

Just now from Don.

The canvas bags look to be in great shape. 

 



Wayne

[Bryan Young]

We use similar rods fishing for Akule in Hawaii from piers and jetties.

[Donnyboat]

good work Wayne, now some questions for Brian & Boon, it is designed by the Irish, I  think, as once you get a fish on, I cant see how you could dismantle the rod to get them off, as to dismantle it, you really have to slide the bottom section, right up over the tip, & so on, the only other opction, is to point the rod staight up in the air,, then retract it, now if you had a large fish on, once you tried to point the rod up vertically, the tip may snap of, maybe thats why, the carry bag, has a Brittish airways ticket on it, from Belfast, ha haa.
      now the carry bag, as you can see, in the forground were the umberalla fits in to the large pocket, you could get a couple of trout reel in there on top of the umberalla, the second pocket would fit a three or four peice rod in there thats why I have that four peice rod next to the bag, on the other side, it has five pockets for tubes, or maybe light rods, in there own personal bags, by the way, were the buckles are, in the first pic, they are leather straps, & the leather is very dry, one has snapped of, so I may have to get a car detailer to so some more buckles on, maybe material like seat belt, stuff. cheers Don.

[Bryan Young]

Donny, our line would reach almost to the bottom of the rod so if you need to bait it, the line would be at a height where you hold the rod when the rod is straight up.

[Donnyboat]

Thanks Brian, yes thats what I first thought, with maybe a small sinker or float to pivot it out again, after baiting, but with the tip being so light, I would think, catching firsh not much larger than hearing, I thing you get them almost world wide, cheers Don.

[philaroman]

probably repurposed for carp, as the rest of the gear looks VERY CARPY   
BUT, methinks them's tuna poles    (does say "Tunny")
for smaller members of the family up to skipjack

https://www.msc.org/what-we-are-doing/our-approach/fishing-methods-and-gear-types/pole-and-line

[jurelometer]

probably repurposed for carp, as the rest of the gear looks VERY CARPY 
BUT, methinks them's tuna poles    (does say "Tunny")
for smaller members of the family up to skipjack

https://www.msc.org/what-we-are-doing/our-approach/fishing-methods-and-gear-types/pole-and-line

That's a yellowfin flying through the air in that photo.  They have bait-polers like this in the Solomon Islands. Some seriously burly arms on those guys.  I always wanted to try this, but not as a full-time job.

-J

[Donnyboat]

Yes thanks Phil & J, apparently Tunny make many rods for different purposes, J thems tuna poll fishermen, may have thick arms, & very strong backs, I know when I was shearing a lot of bloke gave it away, with back problems, some days you could do a good days shearing, & jog back to the quarter, & leep over a fence without touching it & other days, when a cold breeze was blowing up the letout shoot, you could hardly walk, thems were the Days, I had 24 years of it, it was a good industury to me, there were plenty of sheep in Australia & you could keep working all year around. cheers Don.