Continental Airline Tickets

How do you travel with a fishing pole on an airline flight?

Can it be taken as a carry-on if the hooks, line and reel are removed? Or does is need to be packed in a rigid tube as checked baggage?

Public Comments

1. Most airlines have a special baggage allowance. Go to the ticket counter and ask for odd-size or special baggage handling. Of course you will have to check it instead of taking it as carry-on. I have found that the major airlines are very helpful in accommodating this type of request.
2. According to the TSA, you are permitted to bring it as a carry-on, but it's ultimately up to the airline.
3. i dont know much about the rod but i know how to fish. im guessing u need to disassemble it and leave the hook in one of those boxes where u put your fishing stuff in it. maybe you should go online and search for rules on bringing hooks and fishing poles at the airline's website.
4. I'm sure they'd make you check it as luggage. It's too strangely shaped to carry on because it needs to fit it the overhead bins.
5. Your best bet is to buy a PVC pipe from Home Depot/Lowes that has ends where you can screw in a stopper (I believe this is actually cheaper than buying one at a sporting goods store). Most fishing pole cases that I have seen on flights (carry-ons), are checked by the gate agent anyway and stowed in the belly of the plane. I personally would just check it as checked baggage.
6. The airline will make you check in your pole.