On 1/14/2018 at 6:34 PM, Fishin' Fool said:

I would think you'd be more likely to experience a stress break in extreme cold weather but what do I know. I guess this would be a question for someone from Loomis or Shimano.

This is true. I’ve seen a few people break rods in 20F.  I’d like to know what kind of rods are good/bad in cold. Glass probably better than graphite but idk

I keep my rods in the un-heated garage all winter, always have.

 

Couple of them have been exposed that way for 30 years or more - and the temps here regularly drop below zero in deep winter. I've never seen/felt any difference from them due to the cold. Garage should be safe.

I run over a few of mine when it was cold outside and they broke.

 

On January 17, 2018 at 7:13 AM, J Francho said:

Wait, the cold will ruin mono?  Sorry, fish for steelhead all winter long, with mono, and graphite rods.  They get wet.  Sometimes I even toss them in the snow for a pic. No ill effects. 

 

The fish don't know your rod and reel are freezing!

I would agree until I gave my inlaws 600 yd spools if Big Game mono to keep for me to fish Lake of The Woods, Ontario. The line after a winter stored up there was like wire comming the spools in stiff coils, ruined it.  It gets 40 to 50 below zero up there!

Tom

That's new meaning to "cool, dry storage!"

On 12/15/2018 at 8:28 PM, WRB said:

I would agree until I gave my inlaws 600 yd spools if Big Game mono to keep for me to fish Lake of The Woods, Ontario. The line after a winter stored up there was like wire comming the spools in stiff coils, ruined it.  It gets 40 to 50 below zero up there!

Tom

Lines a different story for sure. Braid and mono absorb water...

On 12/15/2018 at 5:21 PM, Joshua Vandamm said:

This is true. I’ve seen a few people break rods in 20F.  I’d like to know what kind of rods are good/bad in cold. Glass probably better than graphite but idk

I think the only rods that would explode in the cold were the old 100% boron rods in the 80s/90s. Wasn't an overly common occurrence, but they were much less able to handle stress and abuse. When they went, "they blowed up real good" ? 

On 12/15/2018 at 7:51 PM, Heartland said:

I run over a few of mine when it was cold outside and they broke.

Has to be the cold.  Couldn't be the truck.  ?

 

Mine overwinter in the garage. No problems, but I always wonder. 

Mine stay in the boat in my shop, which runs 40-50 degrees depending on the outside temps. Then I fish all winter, which can be anywhere from 50-0 degrees depending on how mad I am at the fish. I can only remember breaking one rod in the winter, a Carrot Stix, folded in half during the cast like a wet noodle, so take that for what it's worth.