Cane Pole Fishing

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evbouret

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I have read a lot on this forum and I notice a lot of you using a spool and fishing line and trying to throw the bait out onto the water.

Something that all local kids in HAwaii have done since they were young is learn how to fish with a cane pole. A 6'-->13' piece of bamboo or other long straight wood (I've used guava). Attach a piece of line the length of your pole. With a 13' pole and a couple swings you can get your bait 26' from shore and still have the sensitivity to set hooks. As soon as you lift the fish out of the water it swings straight into your hands.

I've caught fish over 5lbs on 20lb mono. And use this technique frequently to catch myself live bait out of the tidepools.

Just thought I'd share a little aloha from the islands

Evan
 
Thanks for the info Evan. I have never tried it before, but will give it a go in the spring.
 
Ive read about people doing it in the swamps for catfish with short stout little fishing pole blanks. They were catching hombres around 30lbs.

They'd go in thick overgrown areas where it was far too thick to cast and climb around on logs, dropping bait under rocks and logs and stuff only about 10ft in front of them.

That could feed your for two days if you were surviving. Smoke em and it may last a little longer.
 
I have a ten foot glass pole not cane. I use it to vertically jig in brushpiles for crappie.
 
I've never fished with a "cane" pole, but often use the technique when jigging in shallow water for bass and, most often, panfish. It works great for that. Will have to try fishing with some sapling/cane poles next year and see how that works.
 
evbouret said:
I have read a lot on this forum and I notice a lot of you using a spool and fishing line and trying to throw the bait out onto the water.

Something that all local kids in HAwaii have done since they were young is learn how to fish with a cane pole. A 6'-->13' piece of bamboo or other long straight wood (I've used guava). Attach a piece of line the length of your pole. With a 13' pole and a couple swings you can get your bait 26' from shore and still have the sensitivity to set hooks. As soon as you lift the fish out of the water it swings straight into your hands.

I've caught fish over 5lbs on 20lb mono. And use this technique frequently to catch myself live bait out of the tidepools.

Just thought I'd share a little aloha from the islands

Evan
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The poles we used as kids were cane. They broke pretty easily. I remember catching bass and snapping them. A real bamboo pole I speculate would be stronger.
 
I love cane pole fishing,especially where weeds.rocks,pileings make fishing with a rod and reel difficult or impossible.
I have caught everything from bream to snook on my cane poles.
Just can't beat 'em sometimes!:D
 
i fished off a dock as a kid and the fish were under the dock - so a cane pole worked really well at plucking them out, a lot better than a rod and reel
 
I grew up next to the Missisippi river fishing the oxbows and chutes with my grandpa. Old wood flatbottom boats and cane poles worked very well back then. The poles we used were especially dried and varnished to protect them and keep them straight. Sometimes we used long lines, and sometimes we dabbled with lines only a couple of feel long, jiggling out crickets along the top of the water to simulate wild insects. I've since used just about any wild river cane and even willow withes. On-the-spot made poles add a lot of fun.
 
I LOVE cane pole fishing for trout. I have a custom carbon fiber/graphite telescoping pole (for carp and crappie) that is 9.5 METERS long. Very light and very sensitive to strikes. I use 4lb test braid with a little tiny quill float and a feathered fly on the end.
 
I grow up using a came fishing pole... Now i use a real mostly but about 2 years ago i got a Korean made carbon fiber telescoping pole. It opens to 35ft and you can feel when the fish breath on it.. The best part its about 8-9oz and they come at 25-35-45ft. I pulled a 9lb carb with one no sweat. Except it bends in half.
Bushman we got the same set up lol.

Sasha
 
I use to take an eighteen foot cane pole,and cut 6-7 foot off the thinner end. rig it up with 50# test line and a stout hook. use either a big chub minnow,or a wad of night crawlers (1/2 real 1/2 rubber) and float up to brush piles or heavy lilly pads and drop it in holes. when you get a bite you lift straight up hard. you can get some nice fish out of places. you couldn't even think about using a rod and reel in.
Roy
 
There was a good article about this in the last Backwoodsman. To be honest, I don't understand much about it. Other than the simplicity of the setup, what is that different about it?
 
i was just trying to express how much more effective it is than the tactics Ive seen on here, such as throwing a hook out with your hands or using a can as a spool.
 
I cut my teeth on a cane pole, pulling big bull bluegills out of the pond. It is a simple, and yet elegant way to fish, and is absolutely applicable to a "have to" situation. You can also rig several limber poles as bank rigs, sort of like limb lines and let them fish for you. For that application let me recommend circle hooks 110%.
 
My name here on BF is actually the name of a Japanese style of cane pole fishing that uses flies. Samurai would use tenkara zao to practice strokes. I use a 21 foot carbon fiber collapsible rod made by Diabolo with 21 feet of fly line for a similar purpose. I'll shorten the line if I'm dabbling a dry fly.
 
Haha I used fish for Oama all the time when they were in season. Then my brother and I would hunt for mister pole bender and slide them down the line as live bait. He nailed a 98 pounder just a few months ago!!!
 
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