The present invention provides a rod for a fishing rod which can prevent plastic deformation and breakage at a joint part, allow smooth bending of the rod in case that a fish is hooked, and endure the pulling power of the hooked fish flexibly. A reinforcing pattern (5) is placed in an intermediate layer at the butt end position of a tip-side rod member (1). The reinforcing pattern (5) is formed by a superposition of two prepregs, wherein one prepreg contains a reinforcing fiber group (c) aligned along a first inclination angle (theta1) relative to the rod shaft axis X and the other prepreg contains a reinforcing fiber group (c) aligned to be symmetrical to the prepreg reinforcing fiber group (c) with respect to the rod shaft axis X.