"Scott Seidman" wrote in message
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"Tim Carter" wrote in
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"Padishar Creel" wrote in message
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I broke my Temple Fork this weekend fishing with Bugcaster and his
brother on the North Santiam River. No not a large steelhead, just
hung up on the bottom nymphing. I realize that I broke the rod by
not fully seating the rod piece into the ferrule on this 4 piece rod.
These multi-piece rods
are
a wonderful development, but make sure you seat them well especially
the smallest piece, as I did not...

Chris Fanning

By the way, I caught a couple nice bows one 16" and fat as a
football.
Both
Randy and I experienced one the largest caddis hatches we have ever
seen a few weeks back (we floated about 12 miles and it was thick the
whole distance). The North Santiam River appears to be very healthy
with lots
of
aquatic insects and fat trout.

I just broke my Clearwater 4 wt. Saturday. I was stringing it up and
the top eyelet broke off with hardly any pressure whatsoever. I
assume it was barely hanging on, but when I took it to the local fly
shop, one of the guys there tells me that they get an inordinate
number of people come in who broke their rods stringing them up. I
had laid the butt section on the ground, doubled over the fly line and
stringing it through the guides, walking out to the tip...I don't
think I was doing anything wrong.

The guy at the shop was simply going to glue the eyelet onto the
remaining section of the rod. In effect I will lose, what, maybe 1/2"
or so from the tip of my rod. I asked about how that might affect the
performance of the rod; first, he tells me that it will likely not be
noticeable, but then proceeds to tell me that Lefty Kreh always takes
off the top bit of his rods and claims they cast better. Anyone have
any input on this?



If you can do without the rod for a few weeks, I'd work through the 25
year guarantee.

With Penn's right around the corner!?!?!?

Doesn't make a difference whether you did anything wrong
or not. For me, it also doesn't have anything do with whether the
performance was unchanged or not. It would be dissatisfying for me to
know that I was entitled to a warrantee replacement and didn't do it.

I see your point, especially since I paid for the warranty, but it would
also be dissatisfying to me to waste 6 weeks without the rod, waste time
shipping, etc. for negligible benefit.


A good compromise, if you need the rod, would be to send the rod in for
repair/replace during the off season, and just replace the tiptop for
now.

First, put in a call to Orvis customer service, to make sure that they're
OK with this plan, and verify that the factory repair/replace wouldn't
simply glue on the same tiptop and make you wait 6 weeks for the
privilege. Then, before shipping it in, make sure to measure the tip
section so you can verify that its been replaced with an intact tip.

Not a bad idea. Thanks Scott and all who replied.


Scott