A fishing rod (also known as a fishing pole) with a fish caught on its line, as used for recreational or commercial fishing. Most platforms depict a small blue fish, while Huawei depicts a brown fish. Facebook's design is distinctive in depicting a large, marlin-like fish leaping beside an elaborate fishing rod.

May be used to represent fishing, seafood, or outdoor recreation. May also be used metaphorically to represent catching or pursuing something, or attempting to attract someone's attention, as in the expression "fishing for compliments."

Google's early designs depicted a fish with at least one blue droplet around it, suggesting the fish is struggling or splashing, while Samsung's initial design featured a single droplet. Microsoft's initial design depicted a fish caught on a simple hook and line, while Facebook's initial design featured a smaller blue fish compared to its current design. HTC's design from its now-discontinued emoji set depicted a green fish.

This emoji predates the inclusion and standardization of emojis within Unicode. It was first added to early Japanese emoji keyboards by au by KDDI in 2003.

Fishing Pole was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 under the name "Fishing Pole and Fish" and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.