best way of making a fishing rod?

well hello again!

I've been trying my best to make a realisctic fishing rod, with some to none success.

I will go to explain what I have done, and see what you guys think. My personel idea is to scrap it and look for another aproach.

So I made a pole(Cylinder, no need to make a good one yet) and then mocked together a line and hook in PS, imported a reversed material and added both the normal mat, & the double sided material to an interactive cloth, resiszed and attached a collider to the pole so it stays up top and another with a rigidbody at bottom.

Ok! so the effect is the pole has a line dangleing. If I play with the cloth var's I can get some interesting results, but really after playing with it all week Im just prepared to throw it all away! lol! So just basicly asking for some ideas...

Just a few pics for inspiration -_-

Have any great ideas anyone?...

Thanks once again guys! Cheers!