30 plus years ago, my wife and I for our first Christmas, gave each other very basic rod/reel fishing combos as presents. My combo has long ago been replaced by many, many other rods and reels. My wife, on the other hand, has kept this rod and has used it consistently since that time. We’ve replaced the reel and one or two of the line guides, but it has remained intact for low these many years! She has not used another rod any time that she fishes. It’s a very basic fiberglass Diawa rod, not much stiffness but has caught surprisingly many fish, from small fresh water trout, Jersey flounder, medium size reds and too many sting rays. Needless to say, this rod means quite a lot to my wife!!
Well, on Sunday, I was loading stuff into the ‘boat wagon’ to get ready for a fishing trip and put her rod and my many rods, into the wagon along with some heavier stuff. Pulling the wagon to the boat I hit a bump, the heavier stuff fell over, straight onto my wife’s rod cracking it into three pieces! When she saw what had happened to her rod…she first shouted ‘what the hell!!!’ and then her eyes watered up and she stomped off! I was, and am still in deep doodoo!!!
Do you think that this rod can be repaired, put back together? Maybe not for fishing, but just so she can still hold on to it, put it up on the wall, something, anything ?! The breaks were not even, they have shards of fiberglass at the ends.
Any thoughts or ideas on how to fix this situation would really be greatly appreciated!!!
Thanks.
