This time of year people regularly walk up to me holding their fishing rod in two pieces. The most common break is in the top foot or less of the rod. I am looking for a source of hollow fiberglass sleeves that would be suitable for the repair. I occassionally come across old rods that I can cut up for this purpose, but I have not been able to keep up a ready stock of the proper sizes needed. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks.

If you know the mfg of the blank you might contact them and request sleeve material in the sizes that you want. Most will provide them at very reasonable cost.

you may be surprised how many fishermen have old rods hanging around that are broken or unused,ask around,I get a lot of them free.,just by asking fishing buddies

Do a search ( fiberglass rod blanks )

Also try a couple of suppliers

Bill - willierods.com



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/13/2013 02:00PM by bill boettcher.

Thanks for the suggestions. I found some at Jann's Netcraft that should be suitable. I will give them a try and see what they look like.

Remember - you want them to be flexible Mod or slow would work better
IMHO

Bill - willierods.com