Thread: Texoma

Thanks. I have already repaired the St Croix rod. My original GLoomis rod will be a little more difficult. It was one of the first rods i made over 30 years ago. This will be the fourth time I have broken it. The first 3 times Gary Loomis still owned GLoomis rods and they all came with a life time warranty. All anyone had to do was scrape the guides off of it and send it to the factory and they would send a new blank to replace it with. As soon as Shimano bought out GLoomis their first change was to stop selling blanks to custom rod builders. It was the custom rod builder that made GLoomis rods famous to start with.

I started the repair of my GLoomis rod. When I built the rod decades ago I used a 4 weight F1084 GL3 blank which produced an extremely sensitive 9’ crappie rod. As a starting point of the process of repairing a broken rod I should mention that as long as the broken piece is not lost the rod can usually be returned to its original action and sensitivity. Generally speaking if the rod is broken near the tip the tip end is usually lost. If lost the rod will never be the same. My rod has a clean break 7” from the tip which is repairable. From my pile of donated broken rods I cut a piece of rod 3” Long that will tightly slide over both pieces of the rod blank. After removing any guides that would prevent the patch from covering a sufficient area of the rod blank the patch is glued to the rod. See pic below. Once the two pieces are glued in place I will reattach the removed guide and the rod should then be able to provide it’s prebroken qualities.

Yesterday’s results



Honey from a bee bee hive I have no business robing anymore.

Glad your still here! I love fresh honeycomb, usually sitting on a truck after robbing hives.

I have not fished much in a few days. A friend of mine bought a 1992 model Rangerboat and I have been helping him repair it.

Today’s efforts achieved due solely because of Sonnyboy’s advice.

Nice on the boat repair, post up finished pics.


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