What's wrong with leaning your rods against a wall?
IIRC, after extended periods of time It will retain that small bend in the rod where its leaning.
I assumed that's what he was getting at, but I'll believe it when I see it.
Like I mentioned earlier - I heard of the rod bending issues back when folks were still using split-bamboo flyrods...but I don't recall ever hearing it was an issue with solid fiberglass. hollow fiberglass, or graphite rods.. :
Actually, I'm not too concerned with them bending. It's more to keep them from leaning against the concrete block wall in my basement, which will damage them. Also rods leaning against a wall stand a chance of falling over and into something.