Okay guys - thank you.
Here is what happens.
Terminal 5 LHR this morning.
Approach security with rod roll wrapped in big Tesco bag. 30cms.
Asked what was in the bag and told them a fish rod.
Told must check it in. The steel was not the problem. The rod is the problem.
No problemo, went back and did that and then left it in A15-unusual object drop off.
Plastic wrap station in G at departures.Also downstairs at left luggage at arrivals. L5 a bag.
Rod arrived Bahamas. Bone fish tomorrow.
Terminal 5-no great fun. No real information signs anywhere. Much helpful staff, they need to be. Shops, shops and shops, nothing but shops and for passengers, poor toilet facilities upstairs, miles to walk and narrow passages at arrivals with luggage trolleys - every space taken up by shops.
Long bus ride to aircraft - many buses ridding to fill a full 767.
The BA flight was excellent though.
It is not passenger terminal. It is shopping precinct. Very good food at Wagamamma - very funny to see English peoples in Japanaese restaurant to order full English breakfast. Strange people really?
Thank you for help.