How to repurpose a broken rod?

[PondHoppinPete]

My first rod I bought a couple of months ago was a 6'6 Medium action Ugly Stix Gx2. It has a fiber glass tip that's about 5-6 inches and due to an accident, only about 2 inches of the fiber glass tip is left. I haven't used it since but figured eventually I could find a purpose for it. Any suggestions? The action is Medium but being an Ugly Stix, its not that sensitive to begin with. Now I imagine its going to be even less so if I the next rod guide as the tip. Someone suggested using it as cat fishing rod but I currently don't fish for catfish. Any lures you would use on what I now imagine to be a medium-heavy rod for bass fishing?

 

Currently I fish weightless senkos, T rigged creatures, wacky rig, and some top waters. But would accept any excuse to try out new lures with my "new" rod

[Deleted account]

Once repaired, (take off the top guide and replace the tip) other than bait fishing as suggested, I'd use that for a plopper 75 with braid and short heavy mono leader, or tomato sticks.

[Big Rick]

Tie a fly swatter to the end of it and reach those pesky bugs on the ceiling...

[NavyToad]

They work well for attaching cat toys to the end using 20# mono. Cats love ‘em.

[dodgeguy]

Why ?

[Skunkmaster-k]

17 hours ago, Big Rick said:

Tie a fly swatter to the end of it and reach those pesky bugs on the ceiling...

I built one of these for my wife. She’s vertically challenged. 

[Chris186]

My grandfather used to take broken rods and stick them in the ground in the garden to tie vegetable plants to as they grew

[Choporoz]

- use with (or diy new)  lure retriever

- as mentioned above, put new tip, or cut to next eye and see what it works for.  I had a 7'MHF rod that is now an excellent 6'10" HF frog rod.

-  attach microfiber cleaning cloth and dust ceiling corners and ceiling fans

-  beat rugs on clothesline 

- tomato stakes

- diy kayak safety flag

[QED]

As you can see from some of the snarky responses, there isn’t a good option.  For high end rods you might want to reuse the handle if possible, but otherwise just toss it.

[newapti5]

This is my line winder / back scratcher. It's ready handy when you're putting on new line on reels or having an itch on the back. 

 

 

[casts_by_fly]

On 5/12/2022 at 8:10 AM, Deleted account said:

Once repaired, (take off the top guide and replace the tip) other than bait fishing as suggested, I'd use that for a plopper 75 with braid and short heavy mono leader, or tomato sticks.

this is a pretty good idea that I hadn’t considered. Ploppers don’t need action and just need to cast an incredibly easy to cast lure a long way. A 110 plopper will go a mile on any rod. It makes the rod a specialist, but I can work with that. 

[Columbia Craw]

Put an old reel on it after cutting it down and use that for your plug knocker rig:

[Tennessee Boy]

Just put a broken reel on it.   Duh.

[Randy Price]

If the rods are not too badly damaged I repair them and buy an inexpensive reel put it on and give them to poor kids.