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I have a good, but embarrassing, broken rod story that I'll share. This one happened back about 2003/04 on Wasque point. I had loaded up the truck and made the trip over on the ferry hoping to have a long night of fishing at a primo spot. It was a new moon and visibility was minimal. I threw on one of my brand new plugs from one of the best plug makers around. My first cast was a beauty.....off into the deep, churning waters off Wasque. I instantly locked up with the mother of all mung tangulations. Determined to retrieve my "After Hours" plug that my brother had bought for my birthday I pulled and cranked with all I had. Eventually the rod snapped, I spent a half hour pulling in the 60 lb braid by hand to recover the plug, detached the Penn reel and deposited the broken rod in the trash bucket back at the parking lot. One trip, one cast, one disaster..... The funny part was that I had shared this with a friend or two the next morning and by the time I was at #^&#^&#^&#^&'s buying snakes for the next nights adventure the word was all over town about my great trip to Wasque. :-) Sometimes things work out for the best and sometimes they don't. That was not my night, but we all have to put in a few of these to learn and gain experience. I learned a lot that night!
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