Broken Rod - any use at all?
Hi all,
Okay, I was dumb. I was at a fly fishing pond, an old(er) gentleman needed some help. So I wandered over. Long story short, the wind blew the truck door into the rod which I had stupidly left in the open area. Cracked the rod butt section - I wondered why I was having soooooooo much trouble casting! Is it worth stripping the guides off? Does anyone need/want a top section of an 8' 6" 4 wt? Do I just chuck the whole thing?
Thanks for helping my poor cause.
Mike
Drill a hole in a dowel and use the tip as a ice fishing rod..
Sorry to hear of your accident.
"Complexity is easy; Simplicity is difficult."
Georgy Shragin
Designer of ppsh41 sub machine gun
Can you post or PM a picture. There may be a way to salvage it.
I'll try to post a pic. Usually I can't send one by PM, bout I'm willing to try!
Thanks,
Mike
Okay. I did a lot of thinking, my wife for some reason calls them naps, and I think I may have "fixed" the rod. The cracks were all around the cylinder of the rod, the inner core being okay. There was about a 4" section that looked like the tentacles of a squid arranged around an axis. I took crushable super glue, marked the area, brushed carefully all around. I let it dry for 24 hours, did another application. I did a few test casts in the driveway and it held together! My wife says I now need to catch a fish to really test it. Those naps are worth every ZZZZZZZZZZZ!
Mike
Sounds like it might work. You may want to consider a thread wrap over it.
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