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I was fishing eastney yesterday and i met labrax nice to meet you bud,anyway i had finished fishing and this bloke came up to me with his century tt lite and was amazed on how far i was casting out.So this guy said to me have a couple of casts with this rod as he wanted to see how far i could cast it (new rod)so i said to him no mate in case i break the rod,he said no you wont break it.So i said ok then well the reel was an abu florida 6500 was a good combo.so i said il just do a couple of gental casts with it to get the feel of the rod.1 cast went out about 50yrds,so reeled it in bedded the line on the reel all nice ready for the 2 cast!!! well i noticed his shockleader on the reel didnt go around the reel as many times as i would of wanted.But anyway i had a 6ft drop flicked the tip out,brought it around and as i was starting to put a bit of power into the cast i heard SNAP and saw the tip hit the beach,line broke and lead hit the beach,oh $hit i almost died as i had broke his century tt lite,picked up the rod after saying "mate im really bloody sorry"looked at the rod and were the male and female joins together the male section would only go into the female section about half inch.so we both looked at the rod and said its a fault in the blank he got the rod from poindesters in southampton so i told him to take the rod back to them and tget them to sort it out (give the bloke a new tt )i just couldnt belive his attitude toward this he said oh dont worry about it but you can imagine how i felt i offered to meet him at southampton today and get him a new rod and he said no poindesters can sort this out we shook hands said sorry to him again and off i went home so.who do you think is at fault me or poindesters or century.i did tell him after that the joints should be a flush fit and they wasnt and the only think he coukld do is either take it back to poindesters of get some wet and dry and wet flat it down so it would fit nice and proper.WELL THATS OUT THE WINDOW NOW AS THE POOR BLOKES ROD HAS SNAPPED.SO TO THE PPL ON HERE IF YOU SEE SOME BLOKE CASTING OUT A LONG WAY DONT GO OVER TO HIM AND ASK HIM TO CAST YOUR ROD OUT AS YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN A CAST THAT FAR CAUSE IF YOU DO THEN YOUR PRIDE AND JOY COULD END UP GETTIN SNAPPED.to the bloke whos rod it was if your reading this then im really sorry once again for breakin your rod sorry m8
tight lines lee
ps sorry sorry and sorry for the millionith time SORRY
tight lines lee
ps sorry sorry and sorry for the millionith time SORRY