How did you break your rod?

[Jasper]

based on the "Broken Rod" Thread ... this could be interesting ..

[dpammenter]

open car boot + wind = closed car boot & crunch &

[Wade]

Practicing my Dbl haul.

I realised just after i started to haul on the frward cast that i started too early so i paused and hauled again a moment later during the same forward cast.

What a nana

[KevinE]

I guess the "just plain stupidity" box is for me. Duly ticked.

[izak]

Bundu Bashing, and casting.

When casting my rod came loose at the first section, and as I punched forward all the pressure was absorbed on a small part of the male piece. The rest is history.

[Andre]

I had a Sage TXL 2wt broken for me once by an American client who I guided on a Cape stream. He put it down to take a rest and when he got up, he stood on it. The sound a Sage makes when it snaps is too awfull to talk about. Anyway, the rod was replaced by John from Upstream and the client felt so bad the gave me a really huge tip.

[Jasper]

I broke my Scott 9'6" #7 casting on an Eastern Cape estuary ... a section of the graphite simply "collapsed". I sent the broken bit off to Scott in the USA .... and they flew me out a new one. ....

The other rod I broke was an ABU 5# ... sentimentally attached to it ... as it was the rod I used to catch my one and only salmon. I slipped on a rock ... and CRACK!! ....

(I have had two boat rods pulled overboard when I owned my skiboat .... but that is another story!) ....

[Scythe]

I once busted the tip of a rod where it had hooked in some branches and as I walked closer to it to untangle it, it moved slightly sideways. That little bit of unnatural stress made it go *snap*

Another time I was fishing a butt section of a 5WT Shimano of which the tip section had been lost by the supplier when I returned it to have it retipped. I saw that the tip section and butt (though reasonably compatible) was not going to gel properly and I said to the guy, this rod is going to snap in half a heartbeat.

Anyways, luck of the draw I had just landed a 4Kg SmallMouth Yellowfish and then I managed to foulhook a +5KG Smallmouth. As much pressure as I could apply to steer the fish to the side out of the faster water simply didn't make a difference and as I changed rod position from 90 Deg to the right to overhead I heard this sickly *creak* *snap* sound and that was it, rod was in 4 pieces.

[thrisss]

which section should I place the - biga$$ beaded fly hitting the shank, later when fighting a fish it gave in - never mind, will just tick stupidity.....

[Rendier]

I got peeved at the stupid brush along Sonstraal that kept tangling my fly line, so gave the rod a quick flick to the back and viola, the tip stayed behind...that's what you get for being too lazy to bend down and disentangle the line...and a new Vision 3Zone as replacement