It’s one thing to research and find a good urban lake in which to fish, quite another to lug around a conventional fishing rod and reel and other gear to take advantage of an opportunity to fish while on the road doing business. You can find a mini fishing rod that closes up into a pen shape that is only 8 inches long. This same pen can extend to 37 inches with a reel that inserts and screws on easily. Throw this mini rod and reel combination into your briefcase along with one or two light spinning lures and you are ready to take advantage of good fishing water that might lie between your hotel and out-of-town workplace.

When you do decide to turn into the park to go fishing, all you have to to is unscrew the cap on the pen, expand the rod, attach the reel by inserting between the designated grooves on the pen, secure the inserted reel with a twist screw, tie on your lures and start casting. Oh, be sure and take off your coat and tie and roll up your sleeves – work is over for the day!

Not only is the mini fishing rod the perfect fishing equipment for those unexpected gifts of time and place when you stumble across a good fishing spot in a strange place, they are quite inexpensive. Depending upon the design and function, mini fishing rods can range in price from $8.99 up to almost $40. The price really seems inexpensive when you consider that the smallest equipment design enables you to comfortably carry a fishing rod and reel in an accessory or coat pocket; a fishing rod and reel that can expand into equipment that is able to catch fish up to 4 pounds.

And don’t think there are not spur-of-the-moment opportunities to catch fish. Times where you wished that you had a mini fishing rod. What if the business trip requires you to fly in or stay over a weekend? What if that business hotel room is just yards away from an accessible bank to a river-walk for its guests? What if you find out that the hotel allows guests to fish from their river-walk and that some of the best stocked rainbow trout fishing in the city is provided there?

What if a park’s bluegill pond was an easy drive with closely mowed, well-kept banks? What if going fishing was as simple as going to dinner or a movie after a day in the office out of town?

These are the times to have a mini fishing rod.