Survival Gadgets – The Telescopic Pen Fishing Rod

You never know when you might have to depend on your survival instincts. It could be that you car has broken down in the middle of nowhere only for you to find that your mobile battery has long since expired. As a consequence, you’re nothing more than a silhouette cast against the sunset, resting against the bonnet of your car wondering whether your fate is to starve to death in a place with no name.

Or at least that could have been the case were it not for the fact that you’re carrying a telescopic fishing rod that looks like a pen and there just happens to be a river near by teaming with fish. At least you won’t be going hungry tonight.

This cool survival gadget is manufactured from aluminium alloy and extends telescopically from an 8” pen to become a 4ft (1.5m) fishing rod that is capable of landing a fish of up to an impressive 5lb (1.5kg) in weight thanks to the snap on reel offering freewheel casting.

The Telescopic Pen Fishing Rod comes in two flavours, the above detailed version (which comes as a boxed set) or a basic version retailing at £39.95 and £24.95 respectively (approximately $80 / $50 at the time of writing).

Of course, if you’re a true geek you’ll have no need of this particular gadget on account of the fact that you’ll probably have this Radio Controlled Fish Locating Radar Boat stored in the boot just in case of such emergencies.