Well. Another favorite rod I've had for a while had a freak accident while snapping off a c rig. Can this even be fixed? Should I even consider fixing it? I can't get another one of these rods, they've been discontinued. I'm pretty upset about this, this was the rod I caught all my 5lbs fish over the summer last year and if it's fixable I would do it. But the rod itself also took a solid impact from a 1/2oz tungsten weight, I'm worried that the blank may now effectively be a matchstick. It seems fine when I bend it but you never know under load.

It just needs a guide...you can fix it.

You have nothing to lose by putting a new guide on it.  If you don't you are not using it.  If you do and it breaks you are not  using it.  If you do replace the guide and it doesn't break, you win.

 

I expect, as Chris says, that a new guide will fix it just fine.

If you don't want to do it yourself, $20 plus guide cost will get you back in business.

I don’t know anything about building/repairing rods (kinda always wanted to learn) but if I had a rod like yours that had a lot of sentimental value and I a loved it a lot, I would swim the English Channel and back to repair it. 
 

From a theoretical pov, the process appears to be simple. 
 

* Strip epoxy 

* clean/clear that area

thread the new guide on - from what I’ve seen from others, is that you might need to shape the feet of the guide to improve its fit to the rod. 

* cover the guide feet with appropriate epoxy and voila!

 

I had a similar incident with one of my favorite rods, but I was lucky that it was the tip guide. But if the guide were in between like yours, I would have also attempted to fix it. I felt like I graduated from rod repair 101 even though it was the end guide, lol. I also feel like my bond with that rod is much better, ?

 

If someone like me can do it, anyone can do it. I will assume your case has slightly more work involved but, I know you’d be able to do it. Come in now, you are the discochef after all. ? 

 

 

I replaced a guide that came off of one of my old rods that I've had since I was a kid. If I can do it, you can.

 

It didn't look as good as it did from the factory, but it worked.

Easy fix. 100% worth repairing