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We Built DIY Fishing Rods With Bobby from Team Edge!!

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Two YouTubers hand hardware-store parts to a professional angler and see if the rods actually catch fish.

Man Made’s Joey and J-Fred brought in Bobby from Team Edge — the channel’s resident fishing obsessive, affectionately nicknamed “President Bobby” — for a build no tackle shop would approve of. The challenge: construct working fishing rods out of basic parts pulled off hardware store shelves, then drive them straight to a lake and see if they actually catch anything. No pre-made blanks from a fishing supplier, no guarantee any of it would hold together once a fish hit the line.

• Joey and J-Fred of Man Made teamed up with Bobby from Team Edge to build fishing rods entirely from hardware store materials.
• The video, titled “We Built DIY Fishing Rods With Bobby from Team Edge!!,” takes the crew from the workshop to a real lake to field-test the homemade gear.
• Bobby, known on Team Edge for his fishing knowledge and the nickname “President Bobby,” served as the group’s guide for both the build and the on-water test.

Bobby Proved Ideal for Role

Team Edge built its channel on head-to-head challenges among friends, and Bobby has long been the one who actually knows his way around a tackle box when the group ventures outdoors. That real-world experience is exactly why Man Made brought him in rather than winging it themselves — someone on set needed to know whether a hardware-store contraption had any shot at hooking a fish before they wasted an afternoon at the lake finding out the hard way.

Fans of build-it-yourself content have seen Man Made take on plenty of oddball physical challenges before, from the world’s longest T-shirt launch to constructing gear meant to survive punishment it was never designed for. The fishing rod build fits that same lane: take ordinary materials, push them somewhere they don’t belong, and film the results.

Building Rods From the Hardware Store Aisle

Instead of buying rod-building kits, the group worked with the kind of stock any hardware store carries — rod blanks, handle material, reel seats, and guides sourced and assembled from scratch rather than pulled from a pre-packaged fishing kit. Bobby walked Joey and J-Fred through the buildout step by step: sanding the blanks, wrapping them with thread for grip and reinforcement, gluing and setting the wraps, then locking the guides, reel seat, and handle into place before sealing everything with a waterproof coating so the rods could survive actual contact with water.

The appeal of the build wasn’t precision — it was watching three guys with limited rod-building experience try to hit the tolerances a real fishing rod needs using parts meant for plumbing and shelving. Every wrap of thread and every glued joint became a test of whether their shortcuts would hold once a fish put real tension on the line.

Hardware store parts, a fishing guide’s patience, and one open question: would any of it actually reel in a fish?

Taking the Rods to the Lake

With the rods assembled, the crew packed up and headed to a local lake for the real test — casting, hooking, and reeling with equipment none of them fully trusted. Bobby’s fishing background made him the de facto judge of whether the group’s builds were holding up to actual use, and the lake trip turned the whole segment from a workshop tutorial into a competition over whose DIY rod could actually land a catch.

That format — build something scrappy, then take it into the field to see if it survives contact with reality — is a staple of the channel’s biggest hits, in the same spirit as stunts like the world’s largest challenge videos that put homemade builds through real-world stress tests.

Whether every rod actually landed a fish mattered less than the process getting there — Joey, J-Fred, and Bobby turning a trip to the hardware store into a functioning piece of fishing gear, then putting their own work on the line at the water’s edge to see if it held up.