Is it possible to make a fishing rod out of a metallic broom handle?

It would work perfectly for using in cricks or small ponds. Pat McM (one of my favorite authors, if you have never read any of his books, start reading them right now) used a 6 foot piece of steel piping as his fishing rod. Whenever a fish was hooked, he would yank up as hard as he could, and the fish would go flying halfway to the interstate behind him. If he was lucky, it would land in the tall pine trees and he could climb up and get it