How many rods have you broken?...

neil1970 · Nov 20, 2014

...and how?

I've done two in the two years I've been back to fishing

One a year ago, sliding the drivers seat back on it in the car.

The other today on a cast within the rating.

sam vimes · Nov 20, 2014

Three in well over thirty years. One I stood on, and didn't give stuff as I didn't particularly like the rod. The second was an unnoticed wrap around that neatly snipped the tip off a rod on the cast. The other was a brand new rod, one of a pair, on it's first ever trip out. I hadn't even got as far a casting with it. Simply putting a lead on the line as I was setting up was enough to find a flaw in the blank. It was a little annoying to see a couple of feet of tip sliding down the line.

greenie62 · Nov 20, 2014

neil1970 said:
...The other today on a cast within the rating.

Sorry to hear of your loss Neil,
I 'lost' a rod on a gravel banking when the cattle decided to come for a drink and trample the top section of my home-built rod - I've not yet found a rod to replace it after looking for 20 years!
Hope you manage to get a suitable replacement quicker than that!
Tight Lines!

binka · Nov 20, 2014

I'm sure I've broken one or two but the one that springs to mind was at the time Daiwa's top of the range match rod around the late nineties.

Felt good in the shop, so much so I shelled out the couple of hundred quid and I just had to have another waggle as soon as I got it home on the back garden where I whacked the tip on a cast iron patio table, relieving it of the top two inches

mg:

Clodhopper · Nov 20, 2014

Too many to list. I once took a brand new Greys 7 wt fly rod to Hanningfield Reservoir and 'balanced' it on my bag while I got my boots out of the car. Only it wasn't 'balanced'. It rolled into the path of an accelerating Range Rover. 'made a sound like bitten celery........

My fishing mates never, ever, remind me of that one.

barbelboi · Nov 20, 2014

A '57 onion MK1V Avon - the tomatoes got too heavy for it..................

dorsetandchub · Nov 20, 2014

In the mid 90s, at Ringwood I slipped in battlefield mud and shattered my brand new Shimano Twin Power heavy feeder rod with a huge, loud crack. As I lay there, face up in the slime, I remember thinking "tell me that was my left arm and not the b100dy rod...."

itsfishingnotcatching · Nov 20, 2014

Quiver tip on my JW Travel Avon, failed to notice the line wrapped round the tip when I cast

mg:

floatfish · Nov 20, 2014

Over the years, several.Worst examples, One leaning on the car got trapped in gap between door and door post, wind closed the door. Crushed Diawa rod followed.
Lost top four inch from one fishing on a weir decent chub on the end,fish
went over the weir, shock and line jerk did the rest.

Tee-Cee · Nov 20, 2014

The top 3" of a Mk 4 Drennan Tench Float when one of those 'locking' floats did just that and I ended up with a carp going round in circles and a float stuck in the top ring so nothing moved - -apart from the tip, eventually !!

Donkeys years ago as a lad, I lost count of the match anglers I witnessed walking along with rod out in front....Quick look at the river and rod spears into the ground - exit one split cane tip....learnt much about Anglo Saxon !

rubio · Nov 20, 2014

Finally the kind of competition I can do well in. Most recent loss was actually in the hands of someone else who managed to jam a swivel in the tip ring and snap the tip on the cast. My own specialism is redesigning rods to have shorter tips in my car boot workshop.

xenon · Nov 20, 2014

two- a 17 ft MAP float rod when pulling the line tight after treading to check i had not missed a ring-very light pressure and splintered like a cheap splintery thing-never bought a MAP product since. JW quiver which broke at the ferrule after arguing with a mid double carp-ten years service given so no complaints, but never loved the thing.

john step · Nov 20, 2014

Quite a few but the most stupid was down to laziness. Two barbel rods simultaneously when driving to a change of swim and the tail gate swinging shut crushing both. DOH!

Ray Daywalker Clarke · Nov 20, 2014

I have broken two rods. One casting a dead bait out, bait got caught on a bush as i cast, SNAP, oh dear.

Second, fishing at night and walking with the rod into another swim. Rod tip gets stuck on a tree, By the time I felt the rod bend, SNAP.

I did see some anglers on the A1 retrieving tackle from the road, not just rods, it looked like the lot had fallen off the back of the open back truck

mg:

nicepix · Nov 20, 2014

itsfishingnotcatching said:
Quiver tip on my JW Travel Avon, failed to notice the line wrapped round the tip when I castmg:

Snap - literally

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john step said:
Quite a few but the most stupid was down to laziness. Two barbel rods simultaneously when driving to a change of swim and the tail gate swinging shut crushing both. DOH!

That's a Bill Dance moment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK_h-2kot6s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoQIljOKwpo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InpVTPK6o9Q

sumtime · Nov 20, 2014

Two so far in over 44 yrs of fishing, the first was a Daiwa Paul Kerry Moonraker. My brother and I was fishing one Sunday morning over on the Wirral in bad weather, after I had caught a couple of codling my brother thought it best to pack up (spoilsport

).

I had a commer van at the time, I opened the back door but as I inserted my rod, all still set up, the door slammed shut breaking 18 inches off the top.
I repaired it a couple of weeks later and sold it after a bloke offered me a tenner for it. The second one was my 4 piece travel rod, used it all over the Med, I was fishing off some rocks in Tsilivi Zakinthos, hit a snag, pulled and a few inches off the top broke, I've repaired this too, still does the biz.

terry m · Nov 20, 2014

4 in total. A couple of rods where car doors or big boots were not conducive to their functionality!!

Also two identical Normark carp rods where in both cases a minor everyday knock to the top section causes a fracture about 10" from the tip. I was convinced that the blanks were faulty.

wes79 · Nov 20, 2014

Snapped a carp rod out of pure anger/tantrum when after 20 minutes of frustration trying to prize the two sections apart it just didnt budge at all and would of been dangerous hanging out of my mates Clio still made up so I scissor kicked it and doing so prized the two sections apart, just not in the right place.

Just remembered breaking a lure rod I had borrowed last year (took some grief for that one) took me ages to replace it. That means I'm averaging about a rod per year.

peter crabtree · Nov 20, 2014

Most of my mishaps were bomb rod tips when they were built in.
The tips were microfine fibreglass so winding in a bit of weed made the tip wrap round and snap. No idea how it happened but I was pulling the top section of a treasured Shimano 13' float rod out of the bag and the top inch came off in my hand... Gutted!
Please don't start a thread about breaking pole sections....

mg:

greenie62 · Nov 20, 2014

wes79 said:
..... trying to prize the two sections apart it just didnt budge ......

Marigold gloves - always worth taking a pair fishing - great for gripping rod sections for just such an emergency! Works on pole sections too!

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