Does anybody recognise this cane rod?

[jcp01]

Does anybody recognise this rod? It's pretty beefy, a carp or barbel would have trouble with it, ten feet of split cane and probably one and three quarter pound test and with a very short handle with solid brass butt knob with the reel seat slap bang in the middle which makes me think it's a spinning rod. The reel seat looks like those used on the Wallis Light caster but put on the other way around which makes it a bit awkward for me to use.

 

[Mark Hewitt]

"Does anybody recognise this rod?"

Yes its mine........ What are you doing with it?

 

[Cakey]

thats the one I lent you Mark

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glad the table aint mine ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

 

[the indifferent crucian]

I too, thought it a a spinning rod, perhaps for salmon. It might also have been marketed as a 'worming' rod for the same fish. Then I saw the high bells rings, normally associated with an float rod.


Those reel mountings are a bit of a pain..they even fitted them to float rods in the late sixties...cold and uncomfortable.

Unusual to be a three piece at ten foot, it might have been intended for easier transportation, with its shorter sections. Propably make a nice rod for stalking carp ?????

I'd guess it was marketed as a 'stepped-up' Avon rod if those rings and their whippings look original ????

 

[jcp01]

if those rings and their whippings look original ????

I'm not sure that they are original, they look like stand off float rod rings to me. I guess the rod has been restored by an amateur. With a test curve of that of a carp rod the rings should be low to the rod and heavy, I'd guess.

I was thinking, as the rod is probably messed with and not a name brand then I would be justified in stripping it right down to the blank and making a proper project of it?

 

[the indifferent crucian]

Ah well, If the rod looks to have been restored at some time then I would revert to my first opinion of a spinning or worming rod. I don't personally see any problem with restoring it again to what you wish for it.

If I were to use it as a carp rod for marginal stalking I might prefer the high bells rings to lessen the likelihood of wet line snagging on the cane after repeated castings if floater fishing, but otherwise, like you, I would think lined low bells rings the norm for such a rod.....


Bit hard to find, there is a set on eBay at the moment, I believe.



I could provide a link by pm if you wish?

 

[jcp01]

Thanks, I'll take you up on that offer, IC.

 

[chavender]

Does anybody recognise this rod? It's pretty beefy, a carp or barbel would have trouble with it, ten feet of split cane and probably one and three quarter pound test and with a very short handle with solid brass butt knob with the reel seat slap bang in the middle which makes me think it's a spinning rod. The reel seat looks like those used on the Wallis Light caster but put on the other way around which makes it a bit awkward for me to use.

i have someware a 10ft float rod very simular too that one i'll put a photo up to compare with

 

[Sean Meeghan]

I'd go for a 'restored' spinning rod. I've got a 'float' rod that when I took the button off the butt showed evidence of the pin that was there to hold the fixed reel seat for a salmon reel. I'm debating a reringing with low bells life rings and a new life as a barbel rod. The problem with cane rods is that a lot of them are bought cheaply and then converted into something more saleable. This is often done as cheaply as possible leaving the purchaser with a *******ised rod that won't perform as expected.

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I wouldn't hesitate to strip it back and make it into something you can use Rufus. I've got at least one such project on the go at the moment.

 

[dezza]

My guess is that it has been restored along the way. It is, I think, an Allcocks 10ft salmon spinning rod which were made up to the end of the 50s.

It was also a rod recommended by Allcocks for carp fishing.

This is all conjecture of course but a guess based on some knowledge is better than a blind guess.