Rods With Broken Off Tips: Still Useable?

[poisonokie]

pssh... Just buy a steez.

[WRB]

Fixing a rod you wouldn't use and passing down to a new angler so they can't use it effectively is like tossing a brick to a drowning person. What kind of logic is that? Fixing a rod that is functional is different than fixing a cheap rod and giving it away.

Tom

[hatrix]

Fixing a rod you wouldn't use and passing down to a new angler so they can't use it effectively is like tossing a brick to a drowning person. What kind of logic is that? Fixing a rod that is functional is different than fixing a cheap rod and giving it away.

Tom

Something is better then nothing. If it were me chances are I wouldn't be using it cause I have a bunch more rods. Someone I was giving it to probably does not. That was the whole reason for giving it to them to begin with.

[Fishing Rhino]

When I have something I don't use, I don't throw it in the trash.  I give it to someone who will use it.

 

My first real spinning rod was a Shakespeare, two piece Wonder Rod.  My mother got it for me with S&H green stamps.  I caught largemouth, smallmouth, striped bass up to 15 pounds, and Bluefish for a while until I could buy a suitable rod for salt water.  When the pieces got difficult to separate, I'd rub the male connection in the area of my nose where the nostril flares out.  Just enough oil to make for easy assembly and disassembly, but not so much that I had to keep pushing the two pieces back together.

 

I still have the rod today.  The eyes are secured with electrical tape, but prior to that, I literally used bandaids to keep the eyes in place, as well as medical adhesive tape.  Whatever I had at hand that would do the job.

 

I tried fishing with it a couple of years ago, just for the fun of it.  I don't know how I caught a thing with it.  It is so limber, I couldn't feel a thing, not even the rat-a-tat strikes of yellow perch or sunfish.  What a piece of junk, literally.

 

But, when I first got it, it was the greatest rod in the world, and it served me well for several years.  And it came with a Pflueger Freespeed spinning reel, which at that time were affectionately known as coffee grinders.

 

If I hadn't gotten that rod, who knows if I'd be fishing today.

[joeparishfishing]

I have had rods with broken tips and tried to replace them. Didnt work very well. But I have a few rods i use that have missing eyes. I fish with what I have. I dont have money to go out and buy rods when one breaks. I have to put gas in the boat and truck and buy tackle and line. If I have some extra money i can always use another rod and reel. But some of us cant get them when we want. The rod might do exactly what its supposed to do but you can still catch fish with it.

[hatrix]

You can probably fix the broken eye. If you can somehow loosen up the wrap around the eye you can slide it out maybe. If you have another eye or can take one off another rod just slide it back on the wrap and throw some superglue on it and you should be fine.