Stupid, stupid stupid!!!

[swen]

Thursday I went fishing at lunch, not much action until it was time to leave, so I stuck around a few extra minutes. Got back to the car and decided I wanted to fish the next day before work so I just seperated the 2 sections of the rod and placed them in the back of the van, not in the PVC tube like I always did "I can be careful for a day". I did not get to go Friday. Sunday I was looking for some stuff in the back of the van, moved some stuff around, then closed it up. Some thing told me to open the door again, when I did I looked down and, yep you guessed, it there was the tip of my 7'9" 3wt HH rod I built sitting at a 90 degree angle to the rest of the rod. DOH. I've got an e-mail in to Ron to see if he has some extra tip sections, if not I will try to reinstall the tip-top and have a 7'7" rod.

[Jonezee]

Swen, salt in wound, old Swedish proverb..Haste makes waste.
I did something very close to your incident years ago, I too have learned my lesson.
Jonezee

[J Castwell]

"If'n it ain't broke, ya ain't tryin' hard enough!" jc

[swen]

Jonezee- where was an old Swede when I needed him?

Something bad was bound to happen, I've been fishing more often in the last month than I have in the last 20 years. Back then I had an 8 hour lunch break. Wish I had been fly fishing then.

[PanFisher]

swen,

I gained most my rod-building expertise by replacing broken rods!

It took me a few years but I have learned how to be more careful now.

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[Jonezee]

You never brake the junker, backer-upper. It is always the premo, some day my grandchildren will fish this....I deserved the extra price for it.....one of a kind fly rod that gets hit with a fate worse than death. Been there, done that.

[ohiotuber]

Swen,
I shut an old favorite 7' 5wt in a van door....but I SAVED probably 2-3 minutes! All you can do is live & learn. Hope you can get your rod fixed.
Mike

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[Harold Hattaway]

swen

Hey pirate. Careful who you call stupid. Many of us have done the same thing and we might just take a wooping stick to you.

Sorry to hear you lost the rod. Hope it works out for you. The last one I broke was a casting rod. Bad part was it belonged to the wife. Had to buy her another one. It was only 3 days old. Boy was she pickled at me.

I have heard that breaking a rod is worth 10 years good fishing. If that is so I have about 5 years before I need to break another. <grin>

[nighthawk]

Sooner or later it happens to all of us. Broke the tip off of a favorite spinning rod one day. It cast better after being repaired than it did before the break. If you repair the tip it will make a good short rod for brush choked streams.

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Eric "nighthawk"

American veteran and proud of it!