yesterday trying to bring in a 3 pound or so large mouth bass up the bank.
funny thing is when it broke it sounded like that ping you here when a golfer hits a golf ball with a driver. weird!
first broken rod in 28 years of fly fishing. i guess the luck had to be broken at some point!
oh well its off to the sage repair department this week. the rod is an older vps 4 piece 6 wt so i dont know if they will repair or replace it with something of equal value.
looks like iāll have to ābreakā out another rod from the arsenal and go back and get that bass again!! :D:D
That āpingā is something I hope that I will never hear. Iāve done lots of dumb stuff with a fly rod but so far (knock on wood) Iāve been lucky. Most of my regular rods have a 25 year guarantee but Iām sure that the one I āpingā will be the Cabelaās no-guarantee rod. Sorry to hear about your bad luck. 8T
When I broke my Winston last summer, it didnāt go ping, it was more of a loud crack. I swore i heard a .22 going off but the rod crecked at the ferrule.
Fortunately, the folks at Winston took care of it pronto and all is well in the universe.
Iām sure the folks at Sage will do the same for you.
My brother broke his Fenwick last year fighting a large salmon. He had the fish close to the bank and the leader broke. And like Jeff , we heard what sounded like a .22 going off. When the rod flexed back up it had hit an overhanging branch and broke six inches off the tip.
Your story makes no sense. I doubt that a 3# fish would exceed the design limits of any Sage rod. I broke a ZA switch on a 11# fish. However, I would bet I dinged the rod prior to catching the fish. Good article on broken rods in the American Angler in the recent past.
Sage has taken great care of me in the past. Mine is an old RPL model and has been back to the factory three times (donāt say itā¦) they have replaced or repaired with the same materiels and I always ended up with my same great fishing tool. They do charge for a handling fee, which I believe is up to $30 or $35. I take mine to my local fly shop and he takes care of all the packaging, shipping and fee collection and calls me when it comes back. Good luck.
