Anyone use a cane pole when they were young?

[SLP]

I was telling my son about my first time fishing and it brought back some good memories. The first few times I ever fished when I was boy was at my uncles farm pond. All they used were old fashion cane poles with a bobber and we dug for worms. Even all these years later and with all the advantages of better and more modern equipment, I have to say one thing that remains constant is that feeling of excitement when you see a bobber get pulled under, or feel that tug on your line. I am glad fishing is still as fun for me after all these years.

Anyone else remember their first time fishing? What did you use for your first time?

[fishin-fool]

Oh definitely. I distinctly remember fishing with a cane pole when younger. Good times.

[Ddot]

Oh yeah! Used a few of those back in the day. Still have them for my nephews when then get old enough to fish. Good memories...

[mhall]

Oh yes, many fond memories. You made me just picture my Dad catching Gills with me in a pond we use to fish when I was a kid....

Thank you for that....

[Tyme2fish]

Oh yes, fond and not so fond memories.

I swear the cane pole I used was 300 lbs.

"Don't let the tip hit the water!!" "Stop scraping your feet in the boat!" I now realize that Dad was trying to teach me, but his manner left a lot to be desired for a young boy trying to please him.

[mhall]

Oh yes, fond and not so fond memories.

I swear the cane pole I used was 300 lbs.

"Don't let the tip hit the water!!" "Stop scraping your feet in the boat!" I now realize that Dad was trying to teach me, but his manner left a lot to be desired for a young boy trying to please him.

Awe Robert again you bring back memories. They weren't too much on the coddling back in those days. My Dad was hard on me. I was the youngest of four, alot younger and I guess he thought he needed to be extra hard on me, lol. He was a Sea Bee in WWII and he didn't get squat for free, he earned everything he ever had...
Towards the end of his life, he and I became great buddies, something we were NOT when I was young. I look back now and see Rhyme to his reason, he was trying to teach me stuff and prepare for a world that can be flat mean sometimes.

Thanks Dad, rest easy and I miss you very much...

[Tyme2fish]

My father was also a veteran of WWII. He was at Schofield barracks in Hawaii on December 7,1941 and then served in Guadalcanal. Post war he served in the Indiana National Guard as first Sergeant until he was forced out due to his heart problems.

Like you, my father was tough on me;nothing in life was free and I better get used to pulling my weight. It was a love/hate relationship but we became very close after I graduated from college and proved my worth to him.

But my best memories are of fishing trips to Minnesota and Canada with him.

He died too young in 1982 at the age of 60. Now I am older than my father and I find that a strange feeling.

[mhall]

60 is too young to die, I'm sorry you lost him to early. My Dad died at 77 in 2001. I to had to prove my worth and once that happened he was a diferent man all together. It was just the way it was and the way they were taught. Dad was all over the South Pacific, Phillipines, Si Pan (spelling), Guam. Wherever they were buliding something. He was welder by trade and the Navy taught him well.

I think it is a dang fine honor to be tied to the greatest generation of Americans to ever live and I'm betting you feel the same way.

[mhall]

Sorry SLP didn't mean to highjack this thread as I guess I have got a little off base here. However maybe that was your intent, to remember old times....

[sweett4u]

My very first *official pole was given to me by my uncle by marriage,good ol Uncle Leon, he gave me a 10 foot cane pole rigged with eyes and a fly /crappie? reel, I was so proud of that! Now I still have a bought bamboo pole that I will fish for white bass with in the Salt River when they run. I use 8 pound string they use for chalk line LOL, works good. Good Times!

[jcb]

My very first *official pole was given to me by my uncle by marriage,good ol Uncle Leon, he gave me a 10 foot cane pole rigged with eyes and a fly /crappie? reel, I was so proud of that! Now I still have a bought bamboo pole that I will fish for white bass with in the Salt River when they run. I use 8 pound string they use for chalk line LOL, works good. Good Times!

Many a sunfish or bluegill caught on a cane pole in my youth. Still have one of them.

Also remember using as a pup an interesting rod when we went to Vicksburg MS to fish the cypress trees in a few Mississippi River oxbow lakes with my uncle. It was fiberglass and shaped a lot like a cane pole, tapering off to a really thin end. At the end was 7-8 feet of line.

What you would do was put a bobber and cricket on the line, then grab the hook/cricket in your hand and pull it back, creating a bow in the pole and tension. You would then aim the cricket in the 4-5" gap between the cypress limbs and the surface of the water. If you did it just right, the cricket and bobber would rocket under the cypress limbs up near the base of the tree, where the bluegill spawned. It was a BLAST. I've never seen that type of rod anywhere else.

[Tyme2fish]

Mea Culpa about the hijack. But Mark started it!!