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I had a 9 foot 2-piece tica as my first "real" surfcasting set up, all but one of the guides broke on it after one season of hard use, ticaglobal never responded to me even though the rod was under warrentee, that's when I decided the custom rod route was the way to go, get a quality blank and you can replace guides, rewrap it, whatever you want. It was going to cost more than the rod itself to replace the guides that broke on the tica. I know I should take better care, but I would rinse the guides down with freshwater. last season I got a new custom rod with good quality guides, fished it hard all last season the guides still look new.
that said, the new dolphin ones look a lot better and I also still have the 8 footer which has performed really well, but hasn't seen the intesne use the other one did, so the jury is out on it. It's going to be my main kayak rod this year, so we'll see how it holds up.
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