Best way to break or lose an expensive rod

I put some almost brand new rods and reels in a trailer loaded with kayaks coming back from a lake once. Got back and a TFO 7' Ultra light with Shimano carbon fiber reel were missing. Went back retracing route. Never found. Presume someone found them along the road.

Bit the bullet and replaced that rod and reel with another just like it. Put it and some other expensive combos in back seat of truck sticking out window for quick trip to local pond. Going down the road, I reflexively hit the button to raise the window. Great way to break the ends off several expensive rods at once.

Currently still a little afraid to buy more expensive rods.

Whst are the best ways you've experienced?

Window here.
And drove over one..
Caught a Pickle fish... tip break. I don't buy that brand anymore, not even the catfish model. ...$30 to 40 rods, sooo....

Years ago , owned a hatchback. Didn’t check to make sure the rod tip was all the way in before closing the rear . My favorite, at the time, five foot UL became 6” shorter . Never fished the same.
It happens!

In the dark shut them in the tailgate .

While fishing I hooked a Buffalo fish and put my hand above the cork grip onto the rod itself pulling back for better leverage and rod broke just above where I had placed my hand. Rod was under warranty and was fixed but there was a list of things not to do and this was at the top of the list. Broke another rod doing the same thing before I learned my lesson.

Broke a favorite when the rod slid down the gunnel a bit and the rod tip stopped right under an anchor cleat. That was just before the float danced and I snatched up the rod quick to set the hook.

Lessons learned the hard way. I have foolishly broken a number of tips trying to horse a lure ou5 of a tree. The lesson: hold the rod straight at the branch and pull straight until it comes free or the line breaks.
Bob

The lid on the rod box claimed one of mine once. Took a good fly rod away from me that time. I built its replacement.

I used to bass fish mostly. People made fun of my hook sets. Broke 3 rods hook setting. Caught all 3 fish though.

:hesaid

Fishing on the boat and not being aware enough of my surroundings. Went to make a cast with the Lunakia and smacked it right into my Presso Air AGS that was in a rod holder. The Lunakia won. Funny thing is I put it in the rod holder because I didn’t want to step on it and break it.


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Not sure on best way, but out of the truck and or trailer is common, doors are deadly too , had a spare tire fall on an expensive one myself,and my hooksets on a few other ones as well .
Once had a buddy lose an entire rod canister full of 300 dollar rods out of his truck bed , back tracked for hours looking for it , never to be seen again

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Originally Posted by Ketchn

Not sure on best way, but out of the truck and or trailer is common, doors are deadly too , had a spare tire fall on an expensive one myself,and my hooksets on a few other ones as well .
Once had a buddy lose an entire rod canister full of 300 dollar rods out of his truck bed , back tracked for hours looking for it , never to be seen again

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“D” must have gone to your school of hook setting. Not to mention your “Sling and Fling” tutorials!:Rofl
Bob

I've broken about $500 worth of JDM tips in the last three years. I'm rough, so it's a cost I have to absorb if I want to fish JDM equipment.

I've got a Tenyru that the tip end is about $160 and I've broken it twice. I will say that the Major Craft rods are much more durable than other high end rods. I broke the tip on my Lunakia...

In about [emoji637][emoji640] years I’ve only broken two. Forget how it happened exactly but I do remember it was stupidity on my part. I cried a little bit and then ordered the replacement tips and fished on.


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Went on a trip to Cape Point at Hatteras with my buddy and his friends. His buddies were in front of us driving down the road when a parked pickup pulls out from a dead stop right in front of them and they had to slam on brakes and several rods got broke. And then one of the guys had an $800 nick's rod, anybody that's fished there knows who Nick is. His friend smashed it in the door and broke it. That soured the night a bit

Lost a rod to a car trunk once. Sat the rod down told my buddy, “Dont close the trunk, my rod is back there.”

Few seconds later, “SNAP.”

It happens (Forrest Gump voice*)

While my jig poles aren't as expensive as others, I did manage to break a tip off one by accidentally dropping a milk carton filled with water and frozen onto one and then accidentally closed a compartment hatch on another.