Jim Crosskey 2
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A while ago I brought a second hand rod, something I'd been hankering after for quite some time - a greys prodigy barbel rod, 1.75tc three piece (stowing down to the size of a float rod) with both avon and quiver tips.
To my immense annoyance, I managed to break about six inches off the avon tip on my first attempt to fish with it, before I'd even managed to cast out! "Doesn't matter", I thought... "lifetime guarantee with these rods!". What a lot of tosh that turned out to be, as having made contact with Greys it turned out they had no spares for this model and could therefore offer me any new rod in the current range for 85% of RRP (which some retailers were beating anyway).
Since then, I've kept an eye on similar rods on ebay and I'm actually quite surprised how often avon twin tip rods seem to be sold second hand with the last 6 inches of the avon top missing. So my question - is this a common fault amongst many manufacturers? Or just an annomoly with this particular model?
(Every cloud has a silver lining btw... because whilst I only have the quiver tip section for this rod now, it has accounted for a number of fish on the wye, and also works really well on the thames when it has a bit of extra go in the winter but I still need a sensitive bite detection)
To my immense annoyance, I managed to break about six inches off the avon tip on my first attempt to fish with it, before I'd even managed to cast out! "Doesn't matter", I thought... "lifetime guarantee with these rods!". What a lot of tosh that turned out to be, as having made contact with Greys it turned out they had no spares for this model and could therefore offer me any new rod in the current range for 85% of RRP (which some retailers were beating anyway).
Since then, I've kept an eye on similar rods on ebay and I'm actually quite surprised how often avon twin tip rods seem to be sold second hand with the last 6 inches of the avon top missing. So my question - is this a common fault amongst many manufacturers? Or just an annomoly with this particular model?
(Every cloud has a silver lining btw... because whilst I only have the quiver tip section for this rod now, it has accounted for a number of fish on the wye, and also works really well on the thames when it has a bit of extra go in the winter but I still need a sensitive bite detection)