Got home bout 8:15 from teaching class and working all day and saw that new 12 foot trolling pole in it's cardboard shipping container. Here's the bad part, The cardboard container was all busted up and cracked. You can guess the next part, I opened it up to find the 2 piece rod was now a 3 piece rod. The butt end was snapped in half. AAHHHH, Sounds about like Tritons luck, don;t it? Anyway, just got off the phone with Grisly and their sending me a new butt end to replace it. Nice folks to take care of it that quick