He'd left the long cane pole behind somewhere during the events of the evening.
Now the cane pole is almost extinct.
"I keep throwing out my cane pole and see what I can pull in," he said.
Locals could sometimes see him walking on State Street with either a fishing net or a cane pole.
Downriver, in a spot where few fish had ever been caught, was Hank with a small cane pole.
There were two cane poles in the back of the truck, and my father had promised we'd fish for a while after the food was delivered.
It had cane poles sticking out the side windows, and there were at least seven straw hats sitting in it.
The Jacobi children hunkered on the bank of a pond with cane poles and bobbers.
Someone scraped up a cane pole and an old telescoping rod from somewhere in a shed.
The bench was there, its cane poles lashed tightly together.