Looking for a fishing pole

jakku

Hello :)

I am looking for a fishing pole, I can not find a single one in the store.

Looking for a fishing pole that would fit in a medieval setting.

Fishtales

A Medieval fishing rod would just be a longish sapling with line attached to the top. There wouldnt have been a reel as they weren't used, in the UK at least, unil the middle of the 17th century.

http://www.fishingmuseum.org.uk/reels_overview.html

Chohole

Fishtales said:

A Medieval fishing rod would just be a longish sapling with line attached to the top. There wouldnt have been a reel as they weren't used, in the UK at least, unil the middle of the 17th century.

http://www.fishingmuseum.org.uk/reels_overview.html

Don't forget the bent pin to hold the bait.

Fishtales

Strangely enough Pam, hooks are older than you think some having been found from the Neolithic 

http://www.fishingmuseum.org.uk/hooks_overview.html

Chohole

Together with big brothers who drop worms down little sister's neck's when digging for bait?

jakku

Thanks Fishtales :) interesting link, thanks

I will try to model a sapling and use the posable water hose from SickleYield as line by scaling it longer, should work I guess :)

DarkSpartan

For that matter, it wouldn't be that hard to model a whittled down pole and rig a bit of string, as long as you don't need it to be all that bendy.

Oso3D

I did that in an image. Cylinder cylinder and sphere for a bob.

Charlie Judge

There is a simple bamboo fishing pole by France on ShareCg:

http://www.sharecg.com/v/53806/gallery/21/DAZ-Studio/Bamboo-Fishing-Pole

It looks like a single bamboo stalk with a line attechaed at the end, Would this work for you?

Fishtales

That looks more like a brush handle than a fishing rod 

Charlie Judge

Fishtales said:

That looks more like a brush handle than a fishing rod 

Maybe so; but the OP seems like he/she is looking for something pretty primative. Applying  an appropriate bark or wood shader to the pole might give them them something they could use for a medieval pole

SixDs

"a medieval setting"

It is rather more likely, I believe, that fishing in those times would have been a serious business, and probably would have involved using weirs, traps, nets, spears and handlines, rather than fishing poles.

Fishtales

Maybe so but they wouldn't take any length of wood to make it, they would pick a supple sapling that tapered from the base, not a pole with a constant diameter.

http://www.quora.com/What-did-fishing-rods-look-like-during-the-middle-ages

They even had flexible rods in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD 

http://www.start-fishing.co.uk/Page4 History.htm

jakku

Hehe

Thanks everyone :)

The bamboo fishing pole is definitely something I could use as well for another render, so thanks for showing me that Charlie Judge.