I have a couple bamboo cane poles w/o reels my grandpa used for river steelhead/salmon way back,1930's? They have ceramic guides attached that rattle... pretty cool. I have them displayed on my wall, criss crossed in an "X" fashion. Below the intersection of the X, I have the old strip basket he used to hold the line. It was a type of gut that got plyable when wet...main line. Bought leader material to attach, must have been to expensive back then? Crazy method w/o reel. Cast out, drift, hand over hand retrieve w/ pole under arm pit. If hooked a fish pay out and strip in. Can't even imagine w/ a big fish? Cooler than [Bleeeeep!] anyway! Quite the conversation piece in my fishing room.