Fishing Rod Repair

Like anything built by people, fishing rods are prone to malfunction once in a while. Fishing rod repair is a nuisance, but it has to be done from time to time in a fishing aficionado’s life.

It’s always safest to have a professional attend to the rod when there is a problem with it. But if you’re an old hand at fishing and know the rod well enough, you might be able to trouble-shoot on your own.

You’ll save yourself a lot of grief ahead of time if you keep your home stocked with an emergency fishing rod repair supply stash. This stash should have replacement guides, rod finishes, disposable brushes for applying the finishes, and wrapping threads.

All of these products are for sale on fishing-merchandise Web sites. You can buy most of them in one foul swoop—and probably for a lot less money—if you buy a complete repair kit. Fuji’s Rod Repair Kit is a simple package that includes three rod tips and one tube of glue.

The Flex-Coat Rod Building Start-up Kit, on the other hand, is much more comprehensive. One kit has a rod finish, tube of melt glue, utility knife, thread clipper, finishing brushes, coat-mixing cups, and mixing sticks. An extra DVD and rod-building book teaches you all you need to know about assembling and repairing fishing rods on your own.

When trouble does arise, diagnose it and then determine what manner of fishing rod repair you will need to undertake. For instance, if it’s broken in the middle, then trim the break square’s ends and insert a ferrule (a metal sleeve for joining or binding two other components together) into the break. Then you’ll cement one side of the ferrule to the top of the rod and cement the other side of the ferrule to the rod’ bottom half.

If the guide is broken, then you need just replace it with a guide that’s the same size and weight. Cut the string to which the old guide is tied and remove it. Then retie the new guide into its place and coat the string at the tie point with lacquer to secure it together.

If the problem is a broken tip, then what you’ll want to do is trim the rod square’s end and cement a new tip to it. Make sure that you’ve got the new tip properly aligned with the rest of the guides.

Posted September 22nd, 2010 in Fishing Rods, Shopping.

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Fishing Rod Repair

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