NT,
You want to rethink that comment? If he seals the container, aside from any inspection, how's he going to get his rod out? Solution: Deal one end and put a screw top or a slide top at the other end. Point of information: I flew to CO about 5 years ago and had a 4 piece fly rod in a pvc tube that I carried on. The inspectors at the CO airport asked what was in the tube. I told them a fly rod and they waved me through. No one asked me to open it. I was actually pissed because I thought they should be asking anyone with something like that to open it for inspection.
Allan