Fishing rod

A fishing rod having a hollow shaft with a handle end and a tip end, defining an interior passageway which tapers from the handle end towards the tip end, a line entry opening to the interior of the shaft adjacent the handle end of the rod and a line exit opening from the interior of the rod adjacent the tip end of the shaft, and a series of spaced line supporting guides positioned within the shaft so than an internal passageway through each line guide is aligned with the rod axis, the internal passageway of each guide tapering inwardly, in the direction towards the tip of the rod, from the outer edge of one end of the guide towards the other end of the guide, the guides each having a length approximately 11/2 times its maximum diameter, being of progressively smaller diameter towards the tip end of the rod, and being positioned along a major proportion of the length of the rod at such spacings that, when the rod is subjected to a test load, being the maximum expected working load when the rod is used for fishing, so as to take up a curved form, an imaginary straight line drawn between the points of minimum internal radius of the passageways defined by the wall sections of an adjacent pair of line guides will not contact the curved inner wall of the hollow shaft.