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Ron,
Take a look on Amazon. A friend of mine bought an Eagle Claw 5 piece telescoping fiberglass fly rod that casts a 3 weight line. I was pretty skeptical until he let me cast it. It is a fairly fast, stiff action, but will definitely cast a 3 weight line for a pretty good distance. Not the best for casting in close, but will work. Cheap looking but functional. If I remember correctly, he got the rod, a reel, and a 3 weight line for about $25. Just go to Amazon and search for "telescoping fiberglass fly rod". It currently shows the same rod listed under Eagle Claw or Rosewood brand. The rod is 6'6" long.

Larry

It shows the Eagle Claw with black foam grip, but the Rosewood is shown with cork grip. Appears to be same rod, just different grips. On the Rosewood, it says spinning rod, but shows a fly rod and describes it as a 3 weight. It offers the option of cork or EVA foam grip.

Larry

The main problem with designing a telescoping fly rod is that the sections either have to be incredibly short (and thereby poorly tapered) or the guides have to be way too far apart for anything resembling good casting. If conditions make a telescoping rod desirable or necessary (and I can think of some), tenkara and/or UL spinning with a floating bubble and fly are by far the better choices.

Cross Creek,
Have you actually had personal experience with such a rod? I have had, and my conclusions are a bit different from yours.

Well Ron, it’s like this. So far I have built up three fly rods based on telescoping non-fly rods. The first is a carbon fiber-fiberglass composite 5’8” 000-weight, the second one is a carbon fiber 7 1/2’ –weight, and the third one is a carbon fiber-fiberglass composite 6’3” 0-weight. Here is a link to a report showing the first one. Let’s hope that Photobucket has released our photos without paying the ransom.

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As Cross Creek mentioned, since the guide spacing depends on section length it is less than optimal. This was especially true on the first one in the tip section. On the next two an extra guide was added near the middle of the tip section by wrapping it on a small section of sliding tube.

Despite the less than optimal guide spacing the casting capability is still pretty good. I would estimate that about 5 to 10 feet of distance is sacrificed due to the funky guide spacing, but that seems like a worthwhile trade-off for increased portability. It would be possible to improve the guide spacing by adding extra guides at the middle of a couple more sections with a sliding tube.

In your case, the Eagle Claw or Rosewood rods seem like viable solutions. If you decide to try that I hope it works out well for you.

That's a pretty cool looking rod!

Thanks for the info Larry .
I really didnt buy it to fish rather because it was cool ! I'm still looking at the Kastking in a 5wt but for this forums purpose it's really a 3 wt !!