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Making your own fishing pole?

I want to make my own custom fishing pole...What are the best materials and supplies....best shafts( strongest and durable)

Primarly used for salt water 12lbs >>>30lbs

Any guidance would be wonderfull!

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  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago
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    just go buy a friggin pole. It's easier and if it breaks they'll probably give you another one for free.

  • 2 decades ago

    bamboo for the pole. definitely bamboo.

    old-school coke bottle tops (use a glass cutter to remove from the bottles) for the eyes to run the string through.

    Source(s): memories of homemade fishing poles in my father's boat when I was a child.
  • 2 decades ago

    take a long pole tie a string on the end use bait(chicken liver is good) then wait and wait and wait. perhaps if your lucky you'll get a bite

  • 2 decades ago

    get a cane pole it wrks

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