i love my loomis rods and once u buy 1 u cant fish with anything less, but after slipping down a bank today 1 of my dsr's landed on a concrete wall and shatterd into a few piecesand this was only 2nd cast for the morning!
went back and grabbed another rod and ended up having a great day fishing.
so i just wanted to hear of some rods u have broken and how.
my mate rekons it looked hilarious when i was slipping a good 3m down a bank into the canal.
Had my loomis come off the boat in transit at 100km. took us 25mins to find where it landed but when I did it had only a scuffed butt. Pitty the reel didnt end up as well. Rod has been loaded up plenty of times since then so I'm guessing there has been no real stress damage to the graphite. If that isn't an endorsement for their build quality i don't know what is. I'm guessing you know about the lifetime warranties so atl east it will only cost you 150 odd to replace.
I've got a killer along those lines for you mate.
We'd planned a trip up to Weipa and I was packing up the gear the day before, under the house.
I've got a big heap of timber cut up from some renovations to use as fire wood for camping runs etc.
Down comes the dog to say hello and run around like an idiot, as you do when you're a dog, over goes 1, yes just 1 , length straight onto the GLX MBR783 and the standby GL2 BCR664. Click was all I heard, didn't even hear the timber hit the ground. It got both of them right at the butt. Bugger thinks me, as dog runs away.
Too late to do anything with the expediter so I go round to a tackle shop owner mate and borrow an IMX MBR783 from him. Beauty.
Day 4 of the trip in Weipa, we're flying down Wooldrum Creek when the borrowed rod, complete with near new Daiwa Zillion, levitates out of the boat into the creek in about 6m of water. Wind just picked it up out of the 6 other ( Cheap ) rods and threw it into the drink.
Unbelievable.
Next trip to Weipa I donate another Loomis, this time a GL3 MBR783 complete with Zillion, to Norman Creek connected to a Queenfish. Hooked the fish casting from the Bow platform, it ran hard around the back of the boat and as I jumped down to follow it I hit the butt on my knee and out it came.
Needless to say I'm starting to think at that stage that Weipa doesn't like me, but I've had 2 non-loss trips since then.
It's hard to take mate but at least you've got the Expediter which eases the pain a bit.
Cheers, Darryl
haha yer first good rod ive snapped so i was stocked with the expenditure warentee, i work at a tackle store so i got it swapped over that dayOriginally Posted by budge
iv busted a few myself. my fisrt loomis lost the tip off her when i was walking thrugh the scrub, the leader got caught on a tree and i moved forwad and the snaped off, just like i high sticked the rod. i wacked a new tip on then got a nother year out of it till i had a blue with the mrs and she chucked it on the ground and it shatterd it into pieces as well as my miller braid bass rod and busted my old sahara and took a big chunk out of my fluga triton lp, that hurt. then one day i was stuffing around with my innovator shogun in the shed and i had my dorter holding the line as i loaded it up, the line sliped out of her hand and the rod flicked up and broke the top bit off on the roof. i had a brand new rod that i won off ebay and when i went to try it out for the first time, the wind blue my car door shut on the rod as i was pulling it from the car, that realy cheesed me off. the loomis i have now got driven over buy me after 2 weeks of owning it. it did nothing to the rod and its still catching fish 1 year later, i think its a lucky loomis.
figjam :wink:
Broke my PR844-3S GLX a couple of weeks ago , now the rod will have to return to USA for repair . The repair cost is not substantial but the shipping costs is estimated around US$. 125.- .
Jon .
It's not what you don't know that gets you into trouble , it's what you know for sure that ain't so .
Mark Twain .
Working in a tackle store years ago a lady walked in and asked if we sold Loomis rods. I said yep was she after a particular one. She then walked out to her car a grabbed one a nd brought it back in still with the warranty card stapled around the butt. Apparently the good old car door before she had even given it to her hubby as a present. This was before the days of the expeditor so she bought a new one and went away happy
Ive lost one with the ye old open vechical door wind tunnel effect,rod leaning against open door frame,mate opens opposite door,wind slams other door shut and bingo no more rod.I would be a stupid bugger
Cheers
Reidy
i love my loomis rods and once u buy 1 u cant fish with anything less, but after slipping down a bank today 1 of my dsr's landed on a concrete wall and shatterd into a few pieces
went back and grabbed another rod and ended up having a great day fishing.
so i just wanted to hear of some rods u have broken and how.
my mate rekons it looked hilarious when i was slipping a good 3m down a bank into the canal.
You Just sent me a TXT saying you snapped it in your mate's rod locker ,,,,, someones telling PORKIES!!!!
not very strong rods are they ???
Graphite sticks Pinhead, its a compromise between light weight/responsiveness and durability. I wouldnt use a loomis for hauling trout and big red throat lippers out of 20 foot of water off a bombie up the Swains on a 7 day charter, thats glass stick work, but for continuous lure casting, well, I know what Id be reaching for, and its not the glass stick.
The loomis, and other high end sticks with a hefty graphite component, are fine, for everyday use by an angler who respects their gear, but are susceptable to stress cracks and failure if they take a sharp knock, say twitching a HB on a barra dam and you smack the stick into the bow rail, or abuse in the form of obscene rod tip angles.
Horses for courses. Id still rather spend the money, look after the rod, and enjoy the action of the stick, rather than buy a cheaper fiberglass stick that would save me some bucks, and have the feel of a well boiled piece of spaghetti.
I own 3, touch wood, so far all have survived even my clumsyness.
cheers
brian
still laughing at that....
hahahahahahah
nope thought it was mine a few of our combo's are the same but his reel has a gekajibin on it and mine has a heartlands, cause he could only fish the morning i went land based and it was my turn to snap a rodYou Just sent me a TXT saying you snapped it in your mate's rod locker ,,,,, someones telling PORKIES!!!!
we got a pic of the rod and i can only laugh about it now as it would have looked pritty dam funny
There are always strories of woe, concerning expensive lost or broken rods.
BUT
Ya know it could always be worse,
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it could be happening to me
But it won't because I don't own a rod over $100
cheers
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