I’ll spare you the gory details.  But it involved wind gusts, an elevated boat dock, and me almost flipping in my kayak. I got out of the hairy situation but my Dobyns Sierra suffered a few bent rod-guides.  
 

I just bent them back out and literally caught a bass on the next cast.   Are my guides doomed?  I imagine another bend and they will pop off (work hardened).   Just worry about it later?  I’ll inspect closer later to make sure none of the inner surfaces got chipped. 
 

thoughts?

I had guides bend numerous times. Straightened out and never had an issue. I'm not saying they will never break but hopefully you're ok 

I don't know about your rod and guides specifically, but I've straightened many guides in several rods, and most were GTG after that.

I can only think of one bent guide straightened out, and have never thought about it since. 

FWIW, the rod is 13 y-o, and still high on the salt finesse rotation. 

Gotta admit, though, this thread is too creepy to read. 

 

Well hopefully you didn’t get hurt in any way but your guides should be ok as long as the inserts didn’t pop out if they have them inspect those carefully 

You’d have to try hard to work harden and brake a quality guide. You should be fine. 

Thanks.   All of you!  

You’re probably fine unless it’s a Daiwa AGS guide..

34 minutes ago, FryDog62 said:

You’re probably fine unless it’s a Daiwa AGS guide..

arent those the ones that St. Croix just started using?

I believe so... awesome guides but brittle. I’ve had 2-3 replaced. 

I've broken a couple of micro guides.  I can't remember who made them, but many rod builders on here were a bit indignant about it being possible.  Glad the OP's are fine.

On 6/7/2022 at 7:08 PM, FryDog62 said:

You’re probably fine unless it’s a Daiwa AGS guide..

 

To oversimplify a bit, carbon fiber will fail catastrophically if overstressed but will not really bend in the permanent deformation sense.  BTW, I love the Daiwa AGS guides that came with the St Croix Legend Xtreme rods.

Pretty sure those are Fuji Alconite guides. If they took a good smack I would look at them close for cracks.

They are tough...but ceramic.