A fishing rod includes: a reel seat; a blank extending from a front end surface of the reel seat; a cylindrical spacer provided on the blank on the same axis; a hood holder screwed at a front end portion of the reel seat; a hood continuously provided at a rear end of the hood holder; and a rocker including a plurality of support parts extending frontward from near a front end of the hood holder and coming into contact with an outer peripheral surface of the spacer, wherein in a state where the hood holder is screwed into the reel seat side, a protruding part of each of the support parts is close to the spacer.

A fishing rod includes: a reel seat; a blank extending from a front end surface of the reel seat; a cylindrical spacer provided on the blank on the same axis; a hood holder screwed at a front end portion of the reel seat; a hood continuously provided at a rear end of the hood holder; and a rocker including a plurality of support parts extending frontward from near a front end of the hood holder and coming into contact with an outer peripheral surface of the spacer, wherein in a state where the hood holder is screwed into the reel seat side, a protruding part of each of the support parts is close to the spacer.

A fishing rod includes a rod section and a fitting having a securing portion, the fitting being firmly secured to the rod section without inhibiting bending of the rod section, the securing portion having an excellent outer appearance. On a securing portion of a fishing line guide placed on the rod section, a prepreg sheet formed of plain-woven reinforcement fibers impregnated with a thermosetting resin is wound to secure the fishing line guide. The prepreg sheet is wound and secured so that, with respect to an axial direction, reinforcement fibers are in oblique directions, and intersecting angles of the reinforcement fibers in a winding region on a part of the rod section located beyond a distal end of the securing portion are smaller than those of the reinforcement fibers in a winding region on the securing portion.

A fishing rod handle member according to one embodiment of the present disclosure is a handle member in which a reel seat main body having a bulging portion (trigger) and a reel leg placement portion on which a reel leg is placed, and a grip provided rearward of the reel seat main body in an axial direction are integrally molded, wherein the fishing rod handle member is formed of carbon fiber reinforced plastic, and the reel seat main body has a grip portion from 40 mm frontward of the bulging portion (trigger) to 100 mm rearward in the axial direction, and a first portion occupying at least 10° of an upper half portion of the grip portion in a circumferential direction is configured so as to have a flat surface or a curved surface whose curvature radius is larger than that of the rest of the portion (a second portion) in a circumferential direction.

A fishing rod handle member according to one embodiment of the present disclosure is a handle member in which a reel seat main body having a bulging portion (trigger) and a reel leg placement portion on which a reel leg is placed, and a grip provided rearward of the reel seat main body in an axial direction are integrally molded, wherein the fishing rod handle member is formed of carbon fiber reinforced plastic, and the reel seat main body has a grip portion from 40 mm frontward of the bulging portion (trigger) to 100 mm rearward in the axial direction, and a first portion occupying at least 10° of an upper half portion of the grip portion in a circumferential direction is configured so as to have a flat surface or a curved surface whose curvature radius is larger than that of the rest of the portion (a second portion) in a circumferential direction.

A fishing rod according to one embodiment includes a rod body extending in a front-and-back direction along a central axis, a fitting having a mounting part, where the mounting part is mounted on an outer peripheral surface of the rod body at a first position determined in a circumferential direction around the central axis, and a fiber-reinforced resin layer surrounding the rod body so as to cover the mounting part. The fiber-reinforced resin layer has a first portion covering the rod body along an entire length thereof in the circumferential direction around the central axis and a second portion extending in the axial direction backward from an axially back end of the first portion and extending in the circumferential direction less than 180° clockwise from the first position and also less than 180° anti-clockwise from the first position.

A fishing rod according to one embodiment includes a rod body extending in a front-and-back direction along a central axis, a fitting having a mounting part, where the mounting part is mounted on an outer peripheral surface of the rod body at a first position determined in a circumferential direction around the central axis, and a fiber-reinforced resin layer surrounding the rod body so as to cover the mounting part. The fiber-reinforced resin layer has a first portion covering the rod body along an entire length thereof in the circumferential direction around the central axis and a second portion extending in the axial direction backward from an axially back end of the first portion and extending in the circumferential direction less than 180° clockwise from the first position and also less than 180° anti-clockwise from the first position.

A tubular reel seat for fishing rod includes a tubular movable hood and a trigger. The tubular movable hood is disposed on a front side of the reel seat, and includes a hood portion configured to cover a front-end portion of a reel foot of the fishing rod. The trigger is disposed in part of a circumference of an outer circumferential surface of the movable hood on an opposite side of the hood portion, the trigger is configured to be hooked by a finger from the front side.

A tubular reel seat for fishing rod includes a tubular movable hood and a trigger. The tubular movable hood is disposed on a front side of the reel seat, and includes a hood portion configured to cover a front-end portion of a reel foot of the fishing rod. The trigger is disposed in part of a circumference of an outer circumferential surface of the movable hood on an opposite side of the hood portion, the trigger is configured to be hooked by a finger from the front side.

A movable hood for a reel seat has a hood portion, through which a body of a reel seat passes, and a nut portion, which is connected to the hood portion to rotate around the body and is threadedly coupled to an outer peripheral surface of the body at an inner peripheral surface. The hood portion has a pair of first guide projections and a second guide projection which are fitted to the outer peripheral surface of the body. The first guide projections project from an inner peripheral surface of the hood portion above a central axis of the hood portion, and the second guide projection projects from the inner peripheral surface of the hood portion at a lower end of the hood portion. A radial thickness in a cross section of the hood portion gradually decreases from the first guide projections toward the second guide projection.