Insight into what causes rods to break can help save yours

Three Reasons Rods Break

1) The rod has been somehow damaged in transit or handling (in a way that doesn’t show).

When transporting your equipment make sure you don’t bang your rods because even if you don’t physically see the damage it will eventually break your rod and it will make you lose a fish that took you a lot of patiences and persistence to catch!   

2) High-sticking while fighting a fish,.

When you raise your rod to an angle that’s great than 90° from the ground, you’re putting a lot of stress on the rod and increasing the chances that it’ll break.

So be sure to keep the rod at an angle less than 90° when you’re fighting fish or trying to pull out your lure when it’s snagged.

3) Mismatched tackle, as when an angler fishes too large a reel or with line too heavy for a given rod.

basically don’t go after a 200 pound tuna with small tackle because you will lose the fish for sure and that hurts more that breaking the rod!

The biggest cause of rods snapping, in my experience, is due to angler error.” Not surprisingly, Stanczyk then cites high-sticking because that “puts the pressure in the tip part of the rod as opposed to the backbone; this causes the more-fragile tip to snap.”

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