PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fishing rod having a tip rod which is soft and hardly damaged.SOLUTION: An invented fishing rod 1 has a solid tip rod 12 made of fiber-reinforced resin, the tip rod 12 is characterized by: being formed by dispersing the short fiber having the average fiber diameter of 3 to 15 μm and the average fiber length of 0.5 to 10 mm on a matrix resin material in an amount of 3 to 50 wt.% and having an inclined alignment fiber layer having the short fiber aligned in the direction inclined to a central axis along the shaft length direction in a higher ratio.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1COPYRIGHT: (C)2016,JPO&INPIT【課題】柔らかく破損し難い穂先竿杆を有する釣竿を提供する。【解決手段】本発明に係る釣竿1は、繊維強化樹脂製の中実状の穂先竿杆12を有しており、穂先竿杆12は、平均繊維径が3μm~15μm、平均繊維長さが0.5mm~10mmの短繊維を3~50wt%の含有量でマトリクス樹脂材に分散して形成されると共に、軸長方向に沿って中心軸に対して傾斜する方向に配向した短繊維の割合が多い傾斜配向繊維層を有することを特徴とする。【選択図】 図1
