Landing fish on 7m Telescopic pole?

dave_dth

I recently bought a 7m telescopic pole : http://www.anglersworld.ie/product.asp?strPageHistory=category&numSearchStartRecord=0&strParents=8,199&CAT_ID=199&P_ID=1916&btnProduct=More+Details
It was cheap and i was bored so that why i bought it.
I have never done any kind of pole fishing but i would like to get into it.
My question is the pole is 7m and i'm wondering how i go about landing a fish on it, does the lenght of the line have to be the lenght of the pole? Do i need to push the pole together to shorten it when i am play the fish to land it?
Dumb question but i just dont know how i go about using it.

ButcherOfNog

It depends, I assume its a whip, rather than a pole?

Does it already have an attachment on the tip for attaching line, and if it does, is there elastic attached to that which runs down inside the pole?

Best to go on YouTube, and watch some of the tutorials on telescopic pole fishing:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=telescopic+pole+fishng&meta=

beer enigma

dave_dth wrote: »

It was cheap and i was bored

lol

In fairness, €12 for a 7m Shakespeare pole is incredible ! - as Nog says, plenty of youtube videos & Angling Times ran a feature recently on pole rigs etc, may still be on their website

dave_dth

Thanks for the advice lads, just saw the wip for first time today!! it doesn't have an elastic it just has an eye on the top to attach rigs.
I was thinking i might attach an elactic?

If the rig i have attached is going to be 7m roughly aswell, set at a dept of about 2m i ll have to hold the wip about 5m in the air jesus i ll have to start doin some weights to hold that i the air for a while!!!

beer enigma

If the depth setting is 2m, then the rig will only be 2.5 to 3m - I think that pole is telescopic ? if so just slide the pole into itself to reduce the length when working on the rig......