okay - my NORCAL brothers and sisters. POKE pole fishing?!!

[vash]

i got my rifle fixed recently. the gunsmitty had these indian bamboo like sticks (they are not hollow like true bamboo). 15' long. being me (nosy) i asked, what are they for?

he said, "poke pole fishing" and proceeded to gush about it for the next 30 minutes. i went home and googled it and watched a few videos.

i am IN!! it is walking around the rocks during low tide and poking a baited stick into holes. you catch an eel looking fish..the monkey face eel. (prickle back fish). ironically, i decimated my bamboo in my yard, but i think i can find a local stick.

anyone do this? i grew up in the desert so my comfort level messing around the ocean rock structures is uneasy at best..i think i got a coworker to go with me, but cant be sure. it looks like a blast and apparently the fish is delicious.

[scottmandue]

We had a bait shop here when I was a kid, we would go in and buy bait then go down to the tidepools with our fresh water rod/reels and catch whatever rockfish we could.

At that baitshop they had those long bamboo poles. However I would see people go down to the rocks, tie 6-8 feet of line to the pole with a hook & bait then dip the line in the water off the rocks to catch fish.

[look 171]

Ah man, the light house and the breakwater brought back many memories. Depending on the time of year, that wave would crash over the breakwater and if you weren't careful or time it correctly, it can knock you over into the water. We get to the light house and climb down there with all the slippery rocks , fish and hang out for the night next to the freezing ocean. Cast out the pole tied to a spark plug, as real weight were too expensive. We were almost guarantee to lose the weight with every cast, so we go to our local auto repair shop and take their old plugs. within the rocks, a line tied to a can would almost always get us a Sculpin on squid. One time that SOB got me on my arm and I had a fooked up night. Good times.

Sorry Vash, have not seen anything like it but my neighbor is from the banana country and he told me stories about taking long poles to go fishing when he was a kid in the 50 in the jungle in South America

[pwd72s]

The coastline along Yachats Oregon (pronounced "ya-hots") is volcanic rocks. My parents had a cabin there. Yes, I'm familiar with poke pole fishing. The rocks were covered with mussels...perfect bait material for poke pole fishing.

[scottmandue]

Originally Posted by look 171

Ah man, the light house and the breakwater brought back many memories. Depending on the time of year, that wave would crash over the breakwater and if you weren't careful or time it correctly, it can knock you over into the water. We get to the light house and climb down there with all the slippery rocks , fish and hang out for the night next to the freezing ocean. Cast out the pole tied to a spark plug, as real weight were too expensive. We were almost guarantee to lose the weight with every cast, so we go to our local auto repair shop and take their old plugs. within the rocks, a line tied to a can would almost always get us a Sculpin on squid. One time that SOB got me on my arm and I had a fooked up night. Good times.

Sorry Vash, have not seen anything like it but my neighbor is from the banana country and he told me stories about taking long poles to go fishing when he was a kid in the 50 in the jungle in South America

We also hiked out on the breakwater... at night... caught a horned shark once... scared the poop out of me. It was quite an experience to be near the light house when the fog horn went off!

But we were closer to Point Ferman and could ride our bikes down to Royal Palms/Whites Point and did most of our fishing there.

And yes, we would see a lot of rusty old spark plugs washed up on the beach.

[aigel]

Buddy of mine does this with good success. The upside is that you aren't tangling your tackle in the kelp/rocks. Personally, I like to dive with my speargun better.

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[id10t]

Pretty common to use a long pole with a short piece of very stout line to dip minnows or artificials into heavy cover going after bass here in N Florida.

[craigster59]

It sounds like you could get a Tenkara rod and do the same thing.

[Tobra]

So this is like when I cut some bamboo for a pole as a kid, basically. You can make a snake rig like that too. Put some eyelets on your pole, loop on the end away from you, two lines back to you so you can pull the loop tight and lasso the snake at a distance.

Disclaimer: Snakes are dangerous, especially poisonous ones, leave them alone.