"rw" wrote

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How do you break a tip by stringing up a rod? You must have been excited.
:-)

Well... Imagine the scene: Early August, northern Minnesota, somewhere
around 4:30 AM, full moon. On the "casting platform" of my 30 year old POS
14-ft bass boat (starts every time). I'm meandering very slowly (trolling
motor) down the weed-filled river into pike land. I take advantage of the 10
minute trip to string up the rod. The reel end of the rod is on the actual
floor of the boat. With the reel between a seat and the "platform." I'm
about 1.5 feet above it. I'm threading the yellow line thru the last few
guides when I hear a fish jump. I turn, dropping George's Dahlberg Diver on
the floor. I bend down to pick up the wonderfully-spun bug and forget that
I'm holding the rod tip in my hand (see "I'm an idiot" comment in original
post). Snap. Broke it about 7 or 8 inches below the tip.

A slow and much more careful stringing of the 7-wt soon follwed. Quite a few
pike fell to that Dahlberg....


-Dan
(excited? yeah, the first morning of the annual trek up north. too damned
excited to string the rods up before leaving the dock.)