You can put some wax on the male end of the ferrule and fit it to the female, go out and give a few false casts, and if it still clicks- you'll need to reset the ferrule. I'm thinking that there is tremendous stress is being put on the entire rod as it flexes from loading. If there is a "click", there may an abrupt amount of force not being applied to the flex of the full rod but stopping at just at the one clicking joint and snap. I have a business degree not engineering so this may just be hog-wash.
Come on over to the bamboo side!!!
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