Well, I finally saw it happen after thirty years of flyfishing. My buddy slammed the tailgate on his Redington Redfly rod. Does anyone have any experience with Redington customer service for such things? Any advice other than don't do that anymore? Also another friend showed up with his young son and after his son landed a steelhead we noticed that the tiptop was missing on his rod. We ended up using my rod (one of the few times I didn't bring an extra rod) and each of us landed and released two steelhead apiece.

Glenn