The pound of flesh.

The Gods of shooting docks demanded their pound of flesh today. After a fish of 2 they fish would go cold on a color. I had 3 rods rigged up and In rotation a B&M sharp shooter, and All Star dock shooter ( both 6' rods) and finally am Okuma Celio 7.5 footer.The okuma is a more flexible rod so it whips pretty good. I got too close to the dock structure and smacked the tip of the rod breaking off and inch and the tip guide. It will be an easy fix.. Now I will have a long custom built dock shooting iron

Seen my buddy do the same thing on a dock down at Weiss ... and he was standing ON the dock :Doh: He took about 4" off the end of one of his Berkley Cherrywood rods. Not sure he ever used it again, and probably just bought another one to replace it.

I sacrificed a nice good shooting little Cherrywood several years ago to the metal frame of a boat lift

Good attitude, fix it and move on.


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broke more than you on more things than you is my thoughts on this subject ......:Rofl:Rofl
sorry to hear you lost a man in the battle , such is the way of the entangled world of crappie ketchn ....
btw , did it have that "snap" sound .....or was it ....
more of a KABOOM :crazy:

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Originally Posted by Ketchn

broke more than you on more things than you is my thoughts on this subject ......:Rofl:Rofl
sorry to hear you lost a man in the battle , such is the way of the entangled world of crappie ketchn ....
btw , did it have that "snap" sound .....or was it ....
more of a KABOOM :crazy:

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A metallic tink. Dock shooting rods live a hard life

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Originally Posted by Redge

Good attitude, fix it and move on.


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Dock shooting rods take a beating. Breaking a short piece of the tip is no big deal. I did snap one in the middle when I first started trying to send the jig a little bit further under the dock. That one made a splintering crackle sound. It was done

all my rods take a beating , some last a few years ,some not , if I really use it a lot , it's life expectancy is fairly limited .....:Rofl

You guys play a tough game. I guess I baby my stuff a lot. I haven’t broken too many and those were totally my fault when trying to get out of a hang up and not pulling with the rod straight. They only flex so much!:Rofl
Bob

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Originally Posted by Ketchn

all my rods take a beating , some last a few years ,some not , if I really use it a lot , it's life expectancy is fairly limited .....:Rofl

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I had done really good for the last few years. The last two trips out. Bent the bail on a reel and then got the rod tip. Guess I was way over due.

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Originally Posted by BobC

You guys play a tough game. I guess I baby my stuff a lot. I haven’t broken too many and those were totally my fault when trying to get out of a hang up and not pulling with the rod straight. They only flex so much!:Rofl
Bob

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I had not broken a rid in about 5 years

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Good as new and only an inch shorter.

Sucks to break one but at least you were fishing. :biggrin

A cigarette lighter to heat the glue to remove the broken piece and I was back in business. It is a friendly reminder not to get to close to those docks

He He, better to smack a rod than smack the boat into a dock...:biggrin

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Originally Posted by BuckeyeCrappie

He He, better to smack a rod than smack the boat into a dock...:biggrin

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I have done that before also. Had a duck boat wake me under a dock. Had the trolling motor on spotlock. It turned toward the dock and ramped up wide open. It was a metal roof dock so it may have lost it's gps signal. It would scratch up a fiberglass boat. This tinfoil boat not so much