Goture Telescopic Tenkara Portable Hand Pole 24T Carbon Fishing Rod

My father-in-law is a trout fisherman. He encouraged me to look at these as somebody who has no experience fly fishing. He said that he had used them recently and was taking them on his next trip, which we were to join him on. This is a fraction of the cost of other fishing rods that are Tenkara style. And my 17-year-old son immediately picked it up and became proficient with it catching several trout at Bennett Springs in Missouri including several good sized ones. I’ve had these for over a year now. I purchased three of them. I damaged one of them, accidentally myself when the wind blew the door of my truck shut, but the others have been durable and one of the things I love the most is how compact they are. I keep one in my son’s vehicle and my vehicle now in case we come across a body of water and we just want to fish for Red-ear or other small panfish. That being said, it would be difficult to bring in a decent large mouth unless you were an open water and incredibly patient.

It's surprising this compact package can extend to such a long length. The last several sections appear to be very thin and weak so I'd be careful about using it to handle much weight. I don't use this for fishing but rather us it for suspending wire up in the air to make antennas for my portable ham radio operations.

I am editing this from 5 to 4 stars because they no longer supply a free tip set... I fear I risk the price going up on this wonderful product, but here goes... I've seen a lot of people online wondering if they can or should attempt to try out Tenkara with a "cheap Chinese rod." I can now say that you can, and you should. I went the opposite direction, jumping both feet into it 3 years ago with a Dragontail product, then a blank/kit from tenkaracustoms (exact same product as Maxcatch). Both good products for the price. After a few episodes of breaking tips and ordering replacements (I'm accident prone), I decided it's time to experiment. I have also been interested in creating a hybrid, through-blank with mini-reel hybrid fly-tenkara rod, which brought me to this. After one failed experiment with a "cheap Chinese rod," I started researching much more carefully and thoroughly. When I saw that these Goture rods had the same weight and diameter per length specs as the high dollar, American marketed, but still "cheap Chinese" in origin rods, I figured it was worth another shot. This has now become my go-to Tenkara rod. All great, with one downside... First let me say that I thought I would miss the swivel-tip lilian. I don't notice any difference whatsoever. And besides, the relatively expensive Dragontail rods no longer have that (but they are working on bringing them back). It just doesn't matter. I noticed quickly that when the rod is bent over with a fish, the terminal 3 sections (note you get spares of these thrown in, which is quite generous) don't form a perfect arc. It looks sort of segmented, if that makes sense. My intuition told me that this may mean it will be more prone to breakage, and I waited until I got a relatively sizable fish before reviewing this. Fortunately, that happened this afternoon. Not a huge fish-- about a 2.5 lb bass-- but big enough to give me confidence that this thing will allow me to play something bigger than the little trout people seem to think Tenkara is only good for. I've landed 6 lb + steelhead and bass on Tenkara rods-- don't buy the only good for small fish stories the haters tell you. They just get jealous that the Tenkara technique outfishes the expensive, noisy, yuppy fly gearhead techniques. I was a Western flyfisher for 25 years prior to this, so I feel I can take the liberty to say that. Another upside-- the nature of the grip, or lack thereof, really allows you to detect the most minute of strikes. Suddenly I'm hooking up all those missed strikes. I used to blame those on small fish. I was largely right about that. But now I get instant feedback if one of those little fellas even looks at the fly. And, as is the case with Tenkara in general, I'm never positive that I'm getting 10 times the number of strikes as my fishing buddies, but maybe just detecting them better. Even moreso without the thick cork grip-- still learning after all these years. Fit and finish is beautiful, putting companies like Dragontail to shame. It casts beautifully. All the grace of my other Tenkara rods (if not more), plus the lower backbone to throw heavier flies.It's longer when collapsed than expensive Tenkara rods, and it has that weird segmented bend at the end, but at this price, it's 5 stars all the way. Time to order some in other lengths...

I ordered the 7.2m pole, I have not used the pole yet. However, I did measure the pole and found the measurements significantly different than what is advertised. I little more research is warranted to fully understand their deceptive description. According to Amazons page, this is sold as a 7.2m collapsable pole. I expected the pole to extend to 7.2m (23.6 feet). When I fully extended the pole I received in my hallway, I measured 248 inches (20.6 feet, 6.3m). The pole is marked on the side identifying it as a 7.2m length. 6.3m is significantly different than 7.2m. According to the GOTURE product page, the description of the pole states the 7.2m pole, when fully extended, will be just over 22 feet (6.7m). Evidently the 7.2m measurement is when the length of all individual pieces are added together and not when the pieces are interlocked and fully extended. Even then mine was short almost 2 feet (0.6m) based on GOTURE product page. SOME POSITIVES: It is an attractive pole, it is super light, and easy to deploy and breakdown. It nest within itself and is packable (it is not an ultra subcompact pole). THE UNKNOWN AND CONS: Durability, who knows. GOTURE was very "generous" about the actual fully extended length, I am sure they are "generous" about the durability. They do include extra the top 3-tips, so I imagine these break often enough they just include them. There are small, so the strength is limited (not a criticism but an observation). However, if the manufacturer cannot be reasonably accurate about the length, I suspect they are not accurate on the durability. A few centimeters short is questionable, a full meter short is not reasonable. Buyer, you have been warned. When it breaks (if it breaks), I am not sure I would replace it with the same pole. I would probably just go to Bass Pro Shop and buy an American made B&N Black Widow crappie pole. I cannot recommend based on solely on the false manufacturers descriptions.

I bought these rods to try out tenkara, and they are working so well, I do not feel a need to upgrade. If you are also looking to try tenkara, then pay attention to which of these models you order. I compared the weight and thicknesses listed in the description to the pricier tenkara rods that I was interest in, and chose the model closest to it. For me, it was the red fox models in 12 and 15 feet, though I also bought a 15' jinzhu model to try using for redfish while kayaking the flats in the near future. It is significantly heavier though, and not as effortless to cast as the red fox. I have been using level line (actually, just 10 and 12 lb mono so far, with 4 lb and 6 lb floro respectively for tippet, on the 12 and 15 foot red fox). I will upgrade to flouro for the main line, and may even break down and buy some high visibility actual tenkara level line at some point. So far, I have been able to see the clear mono pretty well though. I had an intermediate background in regular fly fishing, and was able to adjust to the tenkara cast, with the fly hitting the water before the line, pretty rapidly. If you are not familiar, the tenkara cast is done best if you can visualize flinging the paint off of a paintbrush at a 45 degree angle above and behind you, stopping your rod at about the 12 o'clock position, using more of your wrist than you would in normal fly casting. As the line loads the rod on the backcast, move it forward, and stop it at about 10 o'clock. As the fly is about to land, you can drop the tip a bit and follow through. A little experimenting, and you should get it. If not, turn your head and watch how the line performs and loads the rod. Some have said these rods look cheap, but I find them very attractive and well made, particularly the red fox. You just have to adjust to not having cork on the butt, but I like the look and feel of the woven material. There are cheaper brands of this type of rod on Amazon, but i believe they are all fiberglass rather than carbon fiber. I have a lot of rods and reels of all types, and I may fish with them again, probably will, but right now I am fascinated by the simplicity and performance of these rods, and have not used any of my others in the month and a half since trying these out. Highly recommended, and you don't have much to lose for the price.

Got two of the Red Fox rods. They seemed fairly well built. Unfortunately the third section from the top on one of mine seems to have had a defect. It flexed slightly once and broke off about 5" for the end. Other rod is fine.

I used two of the 24 ft. Goture 720 GOLDLITE, Black rods for the “V” supports of my homebrew Portable 20M Delta Loop Antenna. I used only 11 of the rod sections making each of the rods telescope to 20’-6” long. SWR is very good on both the 20M Band and the low end of the 10M Band. I tested this antenna only on 20M. Using my 100W HF radio in my shed with a battery, I made 39 SSB contacts one afternoon (58/59 Signal Reports from CO., MO. [20W Station], IL., AL., LA., CA., Manitoba CAN., PA. Mobile, WI., TN., SC., North FL., NM., IN., MD., OH., KY., VA, El Paso, TX., FL., Ontario CAN., MN, [3W QRP Station], IA., Vermont [mobile] and NY.). While this antenna is designed to be resonant on 20M (14.2 MHz with 1.52:1 SWR), the SWR is even better on the low end of the 10M Band (1.23:1 at 28.2 MHz). I’ve only tested it on 20M so far but this should be an easily portable HF antenna for POTA excursions. It worked superbly well on 20M and actually should work even better at the low end of the 10M Band without a Tuner. The feed point Balun is my homebrew 4:1 Transformer/Choke Balun. The two FT-140-43 toroids (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0178IABXW/ref=ppx_od_dt_b_asin_title_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) are in an 83mm x 53mm x 33mm Junction Box (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07JJ2MPT8/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s01?ie=UTF8&th=1). They are bifilar wound as two 1:1 Choke Baluns connected together to make a 4:1 Transformer/Choke Balun – (i.e., a smaller version of the M0PZT design). The antenna wire is ~65.8’ of POLYS-22. For testing I simply used Electrical Tape to attach the wire to the outside edges of the carbon fiber fishing rods and a small Zip Tie (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01018DB2E/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1) at each of the two rod tips. 1st Photo is the two Goture 720 telescoping fishing rods in their cases, the boom assembly (all glued) from left to right is 1” PVC 45° Elbow-1” x 6” PVC-1” PVC Tee- 1” x 6” PVC-1” PVC 45° Elbow and my homebrew 4:1 Balun. When assembled for operation, the two 1” x 8” PVC pieces are stuck into the open ends of the 1” PVC Elbows and the 8” pipes hold the large ends of the fishing rods. I used a 1” x 5’ piece of 1” PVC as the mast putting the bottom part of the “V” at about 5’ and the top part of the “V’ at about 25’. The 2nd Photo is the antenna as it was set up for testing (a 1” x 5’ PVC pipe “mast” was duct taped to a T-Post). The extra wire seen below the tips of the fishing rods in that photo is part of my homebrew 585’ Loop Skywire antenna in the background. The 3rd photo is my Antenna Analyzer displaying the antenna’s SWR Chart for the 20M Band. The 4th photo is the Antenna Analyzer displaying the antenna’s SWR Chart for most of the Ham Bands (note that the antenna’s SWR Minimum is at 1.23:1 SWR at 28.2 MHz on the 10M Band). These are great rods for supporting Amateur Radio antennas.

This is my first exposure to fixed line fishing. Did some reading about the tenkara style of fishing (fly fishing) and all I had in the way of small lures was a jig around 1/64th oz. I bought the 15' version and pictured this as just hanging the pole out over the water, or maybe lobbing gently. Anyway, tied onto the lilian cord with 15' of 6lb test monofilament with that jig on the end...and I've been catching panfish ever since. You can point the rod pretty much straight up and smoothly press it forward and up--the lower to the water to lob the jig out without much backcast. Goes pretty much the full length of the line. Or, you can pop it up and back [pretty close to what I understand as the actual tenkara cast method] and the forward and down. Just guide the line as it slowly sinks in a pulsing, darting fashion. You're not retrieving the line--you're just sweeping it off to the side and/or up. This presentation fishes in 5-10' of water pretty well. I've used it off my kayak and from shore. Eager to try some completely unweighted flies. Guessing that requires a thicker/stiffer line which matches up with the original style presentation of 14' test fluorocarbon or thicker "furled" braided lines coupled with a tippet. To my mind, the biggest reason to step down from a lure to an unweighted fly is that you can further reduce the size of the offering. This jig has mylar fiber tail and it's just over 1" long so still a pretty large presentation for the smaller fish in these ponds I'm fishing. That said, a spectrum of presentation options is the objective. But it's crazy to think that folks are promoting tenkara as simple (with a heavy implication that it's cheap) when you can get success with a $20 rod, a $.50 jig, a few feet of mono, and this combo is pretty fun to fish too! The fun really comes in when 3-4" fish are putting a bend in the line and feel like they're pulling their weight. 8" bluegills and 10" crappie are feeling like monsters. I'm having more fun panfishing than ever before. Definitely want to stick with this method and refine it. Not sure I'm going to be slinging those grubs/spoons/spinners on my 6' test light spinning gear anymore. Not when targeting panfish! I'd had my eye out for 5'6" UL rods and 4' test--and never once liked one when I picked it up at the store. Whippy and awful. I think this is what I was looking for all along.

that's great product .

So handy, light, effective, well designed fishing rod.

This one seems to be good.

La canna è rotta al fondo e sul puntino...

C.an not attach any kind of reel or line incomplete .