Thread: Quality telescopic fishing rods (Surf, inshore and pier) for those of us who travel

I travel a lot, and when I travel for work or vacation or other reasons I usually try to find somewhere to fish. The trouble is that my favorite rods are two piece (at best) or one piece and my girlfriend dislikes riding with them beside her in the car (Go figure) though for the most part she's a good sport about it. However, I don't like having my reels down next to her or anyone else's feet (No reel no fishing- unless I go old school cane pole)and I don't like to take them off the rod every time I travel. The past few years I've used Cabelas Bigwater telescopic surf rods for surf fishing and for striper fishing from shore/rocks in tailraces and lakes locally. I only have a few complaints, one is that they're heavy, the second is that the guide spacing/sizing is (to put it very generously) far less than optimal. That being said, I've caught a lot of fish on them in the 10-20 lb range and I've never had one fail. Even hauled a big ray out of the surf on my last trip to GSSP. Does anyone know of a higher quality durable telescopic rod for any of the above aplications? I ordered a hurricane Mako 8' (el cheapo) just to try it out. It gets good reviews for what it is, so I guess I'll see how it works out.

the hurricane mako just arrived, and surprisingly it feels half way decent. It's tough to say without putting the rod through it's paces but I may have just found a good travel pier rod. The stripping guide is only half the size that it should be, but its placed appropriately and the rod has a fair amount of backbone. Aesthetically it's not horrible, though it look like what it is... a bargain bin fishing rod. Collapsed length is 22 1/2". It's rated 1-3 oz and if it can cast 2 oz or even 1.5 oz a respectable distance and stand up to a year or so of striper fishing, surf and pier use- then it will have more than paid for its self.

Quality? Not sure yet, I have't tried it out......I always would bring 1 or 2 to have in the cooler for bait rods on piers that restrict the numbers to 3 rods or pay more per extra rod.....I figure I only use 1 at a time , so I'm ot paying extra.....this rodcould be used for way more then bait like my other telescopic (1 for the golf bag & ponds)
It has alot of extra funtions. (Like telescopic handle) just under 10ft. Plenty of guides, good back bone, 30 to 60 gram.....on the rod is.....Sougayilang.....300....gr 30-60g
Not sure price of new......I think I got it for 10.00.....did't want the okuma reel on it....the guy used it for cat fish at a pay lake

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took the hurricane mako 8' telescopic out for a test session today. Made 65-70 yard casts with 3/4-7/8 oz spoons and roughly 50 yard casts with 1 oz topwater gear. Much better performance than I expected and reasonably light in the hand. Unfortunately none of the stripers were interested (if there were any around) and I didn't really want to monkey around with any of the 6 million gar that were rolling around in the river.