Short Life For My St. Croix Rod :-(

[C-roy]

Yesterday afternoon i decided to go out to the garage a play with my new fish finder, and like always my 2 1/2 year old son wanted to go with me.So I get him all suited up to go help daddy in the garage. We get out there and like he always does he wants me to grab that old weed eater that don't run. So I get it down and give him some wrenches and a rubber mallet so he can pretend his fixing it lol. So as he's wrenching on the weed eater I hook up the fish finder and start trying to figure out all the cool things it can do. As I sit in the front of my scamp playing with my fish finder my son comes to investigate to see what daddy is doing, he climbs up and wants to play with it. of course I tell him no this is daddy's toy pick him up and set him outside the boat. As a little time passed I look back to see if my sons is still playing with the weed eater and not getting into things, well for those of u that have little kids will know he's not playing with the weed eater no more, he has climb into the back of the boat, and now is sitting on my brand new St . Croix rod and playing AWWW! I jump up and hurry to grab him.... To late it's broke, at this point I'm heated I set him down and yell at him and being stupid I spank him. As he looks up at me and starts to cry I get hit with a little voice in my head, you idiot it's not his fault. U weren't watching him and the only reason he was playing in the boat is because he wants to be just like you. S*#@T I say to my self I swallowed my pride reach down hug him and tell him daddy sorry its not your fault and daddy is a big dummy. Even though I was really upset that my St. Croix rod got broke, and as all of us know that has family's it's not always easy to go spend money on yourself to buy something nice , I was happy that my son shows interest in the things I love to do.

So tomorrow after work if the weather stays nice I'm going to load up the kids and take them fishing at my parents pond, and wish I had my st. Croix rod to use lol O well.

Like to hear if any of u had a similar story with your sons are daughters

[Darren.]

Kids + rods. Yep. Been there.

 

Hey, at least it's a Croix, you can upgrade now!

[C-roy]

Yep lol

[lmbfisherman]

HAHA Yeah I hear ya, my son started at 1 year old (smashed HDTV 40" with toy hammer)...laptop, playbook, xbox..etc..list goes on and he's now 3 still tallying, the boy is so quick, take your eye off him for a minute he's climbing on top of the fridge.  Kid has no fear, seen him jump off the 5th step of the stairs in the house.  Didn't land it at first, hurt himself but got back up and determined to land it and did the next time.  My wife and I let him as well we knew he could do it and didn't want to stop his drive/determination to make it happen.  We believe in letting him testing his limits to an extent.  A judgement thing!  Now if it was the 8th step I wouldn't let it happen.  LOL Of course I keep my stuff locked up (fishing equipment) so he can't reach it, he does love his cars fishing rod, I put a lipless crank without hooks on it and he loves to cast it (course we have to make sure he doesn't break anything with it when he does) and watches Big Bass Monday with me on WFN. 

[flyfisher]

It happens   St Croix does have a no questions asked replacement warranty, i think gold star, that for $50 or $75 depending on the model you can get your rod replaced. 

 

 

i think the big thing is you realized it wasn't his fault and i can bet you won't make the same quick judgement call in the future.  Nobody is perfect and even kids realize that, thankfully

[C-roy]

Yeah lesson learned, going to take it back to academy see what they say still have receipt