Hey guys
today we're making a homemade fishing rod
it's gonna be really easy to make
So today I'm gonna be making a really simple fishing rod
and this will be good for anyone who wants to go for a little
challenge or anyone who has kids
that they don't have the patience to teach them exactly how to use a spinning reel setup
so take them to catch little small fish and
I'm gonna show you a perfect little rod to set up for them
or for yourself if you want to challenge
so today we are making a homemade fishing rod out of
bamboo skewers
Now when making a homemade fishing rod
It's important to think about the material that you're using
if I were to use like
if I were to use something like a a branch that I found like a dead branch that I found
It could snap
those dead branches don't have much flex in them.
Whereas this bamboo skewer
bamboo is flexible
and it'll also bounce back to the spot that it was
I chose the bamboo skewer because it was cheap and I found it at Walmart for like
a bunch of them
and they're a good length.
It's a nice length
I use this rod for
creek fishing mostly
anything where you can just drop a line and catch little fish
So now let me show you how I make it real quick
first off
I get rid of this-- I get rid of this point right here
because that's dangerous.
I don't want to fall on that
I don't want to poke someone with that by accident
and it's kind of just unnecessary. So I clip that off
So that it's not pointy anymore
next
Let's put a different color on the tip so you can see it easily
and I'm going to choose red because red stands out against green really well
So I'm gonna color that tip
So I can keep track of my
if anything's touching the tip of my rod I'll see the red moving
... and red like warriors blood!
I'm a warrior!
All right. There we go
So the tip is red
Kind of like an indication of a strike
if something strikes it I'll see that red tip move
Now I'm going to cut a little notch into it
And this is where the line will sit
The line will go into this notch
Next I'll get my leader line
my line
Now last time I use this in the creek
I used four pound test because I was trying to catch the smallest fish possible
And I think four pound test is perfect for the creek. If you're catching this fish like average size like this
Perfect. The lighter the better
And I say the lighter the better because the thicker it gets the easier it is to see for a fish
So I'll tie with four pound
And I will literally just tie it straight on to here
First, I put the line through that notch
Just like that and I'll tie a simple
clinch knot right here
And if you guys don't know how to tie a clinch knot we offer PDFs to teach you how to tie knots
it's a guide called what knots to tie and when
and it's a really good guide if you don't know what
what knots to tie for certain lures and for certain rigs
okay, so now once I have to knot
I will tighten it
and make sure that it's on the notch right here. You see that?
...and then I tighten it fully
Now that line's not coming off
You see? It's tightened and it's into this notch. So it won't slip off
the length of this leader line
All depends on how far you want to cast the longer it is the harder it is to cast
But sometimes those fish are a little bit out there
so I found that I like to do a
Longer leader line just so I know I can cast it and I do about my wingspan
length
Okay
There you go
It's literally just a bamboo skewer with a line tied on the end right here
Now if you're giving this to your kid, I would shorten the leader line a little bit
Probably half of that. So all they have to do is just drop it in the water
it was so easy to fish this at the creek that it was like
I'm taking my cousin's there like today after I film this I'm about to take them
I'm building this rod for them right now, but my little cousins are coming over and
I'm gonna take them fishing using this and I I don't have to worry too much about them tangling up my spinning reel setup
And it will also be a really fun challenge for everyone to be using this kind of rod
Now when I cast this out
This longer leader line out
I'm kind of whipping the bait back and then I'm whipping it forward and then I'm whipping it back and then I'm whipping it forward
And letting the bait sit in the water
This is kind of similar to fly fishing where you use the weight of your line to go back
weight of the line to go forward
It's so fun
anyways, that's a quick little tutorial on how to make the bamboo skewer rod
If you haven't seen the episode that we published recently about about the little micro fishing at the creek
We're using these little rods as well. Maybe you can get some inspiration from there
If anyone needs more help with like knots and stuff like that
We've got this awesome guide online on senkoskipper.com on what knots to tie and when to tie them
We've also got a bunch of other tutorials on there. So just check that out.
I hope you like this little tutorial
I have a lot of fun using this rod and I wanted to share with you guys my joy
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