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A Fishing Pole, or is it a Rod ?

 
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C-Bill



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PostPosted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 4:01 pm    Post subject: A Fishing Pole, or is it a Rod ? Reply with quote
Just looking for some discussion.

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 4:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 4:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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.

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PostPosted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 5:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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." Laughing 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
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 6:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Less than $50, call it a pole

$50 to $100, call it a rod

more than $100, call it a weapon. Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 6:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
These guys did pretty well with poles, not rods, Bill. "Chicken of the Sea" boats out of San Diego.



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PostPosted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 7:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Neat picture, Sneaks. Thanks.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 7:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 12:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Don,

Those are poles alright. And, they worked great.

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more than $100, call it a weapon.


I like that. I would presume "self defense."

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 5:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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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