Stickleback wrote:
...I am more curious what the difference is between a pole and rod. ...
Wow. Everyone on this thread is really confused.
Look, it's simple. Just ask yourself a question: What do you shoot?
for the person that does not appreciate his tools, he may answer "a gun". But for the person that does appreciate his tools he will answer "a rifle".
It's no different for anglers. Those who simply view their tool as "that long flexible thing..." may answer "a pole". But for those who understand what a rod does; it is a "rod".
"...all good things come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy."
"...he would hold his rod straight out in front of him, where it trembled with the beating of his heart. Although it was eight and a half feet long, it weighed only four and a half ounces. It was made of split bamboo cane from the far-off Bay of Tonkin. It was wrapped with red and blue silk thread, and the wrappings were carefully spaced to make the delicate rod powerful but not so stiff it could not tremble.
Always it was to be called a rod."
I couldn't help it. It just popped in there.
Dr. Raymond Stantz