As some people have started to notice - yes, my rod is indeed broken at the top!

It unfortunately snapped pre-recording, and I just had to work with what i had :)

On another note, if you have any replacement suggestions (It was a Shakespeare Wild Series Walleye) I would surely take any! As much as I am here to hopefully provide useful and entertaining information, I am also here to learn from y’all as well.

Hope y'all have a good one. Glad you're here!

I'm a die hard bass angler, I am also a history buff but it's not too easy to find information on historical fishing info

I was reading a book that had an Earl fishing so I thought lrt me look up fishing poles from the 1800s & found your video.

While ice fishing in New England I watched an elderly Polish immigrant handlining perch through the ice with a coil of line wrapped loosely into his hand and a piece of broomstick maybe 2 feet long with a notch cut in the end to snag and hold the line as he jigged it up-and-down. He would retrieve the jig or a hooked fish and coil the loops of line off the notched stick neatly into his hand, surprisingly quickly. I had a standard short rod and reel for ice fishing with small jigs, and he said to me, "you fish funny"! 😉

You make great content. Keep delivering more, I cannot wait until your next video already. Thanks for sharing brotha'.

This is exactly the kind of dude I want to learn about fishing history from

Well done! Here's some more ideas for you: History of nets (cast net, dip net, etc.) , history of baits (live and artificial), and techniques without poles (spearing, bow fishing, etc)

Amazing well researched video mate. Absolutely love this. I'm really interested in the old ways and wanted to learn more about the fishing pole. This video was very helpful

Keep making videos, this was great! You just need to keep doing it to develope move flow and vibe, you already have some, keep going. I wanna learn more about lures, history of lure makers, reels and even fishing boats. The Arkansas wiggler is interesting for example and there are other lures and lure companies you can do the history of. Also famous derbies and fishing tournaments there is so much history and content.

Great job on your video? Super informative. subscribed

Feeling Super Angler'd up after watching this vid! All my AnglerHeads sound off in the chat!!

Super cool video, appreciate your work mr Matthew

Finally, something worth learning

I met this dude on Fortnite back in 2019 and now he’s making absolute bangers on YouTube, I’m a proud Angler today 🥹

When my gramps first retired from the navy, he used a novel new piece of tech to combine his love of beer with fishing. He would reuse the pull tabs for fishing lures

Great Video! Next one you should end with reeling in a fish. Just a thought. Looking forward to future installments 👍

Thank you for your research and your sharing of this video. 👍

Nice segment on 'fishing rods'. They are not supposed to be called poles!
Well done young man!

When the video ended I clicked out of full screen and saw that you only have 250 subscribers?! This channel is criminally underrated!

Excellent video Matthew!  As a Tenkara enthusiast, it was interesting to see how the Western fly rod evolved on a similar path but then kept going.  I really enjoyed this and am looking forward to future videos (and some fishing together).