RE: Broke ma rod

[CHARLIE MASTRO]

I've never taped my spey rod together because I thought it would be such a 
big mess and I've never had a problem with mine coming apart. I was taught 
to push the sections together with a slight twist just as you seated the 
parts together.

Charlie
----Original Message Follows----
From: "Mark Steudel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: waflyfishers@waflyfishers.com
To: <waflyfishers@waflyfishers.com>
Subject: RE: Broke ma rod
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:35:06 -0800
What's the downside to taping your rod? Maybe gunk on your ferrels? Or just
the pain in butt messing with tape?
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leland Miyawaki
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 8:00 PM
To: waflyfishers@waflyfishers.com
Subject: Re: Broke ma rod
Mark,
There has been a lot of discussion on various spey sites vis-a-vis
taping of ferrules. I used too but now simply check my ferrules
periodically while fishing.
Leland.

>Well I was out trying to get a little spey casting practice in at green
lake
>and I wasn't having a very good time of it. I was trying to add a little
>snap at the end of the cast when I heard a crack and the top of my rod 
flew
>off. Now I didn't have a fly on the end of my line so I carefully pulled 
it
>in hoping the line wouldn't slide through before I got to it. As I walked
>back to my car I noticed that about a 1/4 inch down from the top of the
>second to last piece had broken off, kinda weird. I'm guessing the top
piece
>must've been sliding up and just broken off the last bit.
>
>Mark