So on a trip last week I didn’t realize the ceiling fan was running and I took the tip off just above the last guide of my favorite M Sierra spinning rod. Well I melted the tip off the broken piece and used the glue in an eagle claw repair kit to put the tip back on. 
 

well I fished a couple of days with it and it definitely casted different and the action went from the Dobyns soft fast to an actual fast. The odd bit is I swear this thing was now more sensitive than ever before. I felt multiple bass pick up a tube in the blank only, they hadn’t pu any bend in the rod. This rod was fairly sensitive before, but now it seems like a better rod in many ways. 
 

I was originally going to replace it, but I may have accidentally created an even better rod?

 

so do I keep it or cut it up and get the replacement. Really torn because I had really liked the soft tip with plenty of backbone so I could pull the fish out of the reeds. 
 

added pics

22 minutes ago, Cgolf said:

This rod was fairly sensitive before, but now it seems like a better rod in many ways. 
 

I was originally going to replace it, but I may have accidentally created an even better rod?

 

so do I keep it or cut it up and get the replacement. Really torn because I had really liked the soft tip with plenty of backbone so I could pull the fish out of the reeds.

 

 

 

If you like the rod as it now is, then keep it and use the heck out of it.

 

Forget the replacement because you will lose this rod. If you like it you won't get it again. So keep it is my advice and go purchase the same rod again so you have the softer tip as well. Then you will have both.

 

Like a woman's shoe closet, you can never have enough rods! I'm sitting around 70 rods myself on average on any given day. Some are in similar shape. And oddly enough, one of them is an old broken Dobyns that was headed to the dumpster is now my new shorter flipping and pitching rod. It was broken by a shop customer and abandoned with us, so I cut all the guides off it, turned it into a CHW spiral wrapped rod and now use it for up close heavy stuff due to its shorter length. My boat is so low to the surface of the water I don't have enough height off the water to use a 7'6" like I want to, but this Dobyns rod fits perfectly. Its now around 6'10 1/2". Normally I don't keep broken rods, but this one filled a need and it sounds like yours does as well.

 

But are my eyes seeing your photo correctly? Did you leave the guide in place next to the tip you just reinstalled? If so I would remove it and just go with the tip only.

 

But I'm not buying the "I didn't realize the ceiling fan was running" line. 

36 minutes ago, FloridaFishinFool said:

 

If you like the rod as it now is, then keep it and use the heck out of it.

 

Forget the replacement because you will lose this rod. If you like it you won't get it again. So keep it is my advice and go purchase the same rod again so you have the softer tip as well. Then you will have both.

 

Like a woman's shoe closet, you can never have enough rods! I'm sitting around 70 rods myself on average on any given day. Some are in similar shape. And oddly enough, one of them is an old broken Dobyns that was headed to the dumpster is now my new shorter flipping and pitching rod. It was broken by a shop customer and abandoned with us, so I cut all the guides off it, turned it into a CHW spiral wrapped rod and now use it for up close heavy stuff due to its shorter length. My boat is so low to the surface of the water I don't have enough height off the water to use a 7'6" like I want to, but this Dobyns rod fits perfectly. Its now around 6'10 1/2". Normally I don't keep broken rods, but this one filled a need and it sounds like yours does as well.

 

But are my eyes seeing your photo correctly? Did you leave the guide in place next to the tip you just reinstalled? If so I would remove it and just go with the tip only.

 

But I'm not buying the "I didn't realize the ceiling fan was running" line. 

It was really hot in the cabin, but the light was turned off on the fan. So moving the rod to set it down I had the tip too high, and I honestly didn’t see the fan spinning on high in the dim light. Just glad it was the one rod and not the five in the rod carrier that I had just set down. 

It sounds like you have a fast action Dobyns rod. Considering they are more mod fast, that’s not a bad thing. I’d probably keep it.

I look at it this way... How much will it save you towards the replacement?.... Do you like it more than that amount?

 

In other words, is the value of it to you after the repair more than what they will give you towards the replacement? If so, then keep it.

On 6/29/2025 at 9:37 PM, Cgolf said:

So on a trip last week I didn’t realize the ceiling fan was running and I took the tip off

 

Huge rule in my house.

 

No rods get touched unless all ceiling fans are OFF.

 

 

It happens to the best of us.

 

I've broken the tips off more rods than I care to admit and it changed the dynamics in a negative way, maybe placebo effect.

My M Sierra is a personal favorite but maybe need to experiment with a ceiling fan 😉 

Rods when shortened from the tip get slower in action, not faster.  It's physics, and isn't a matter of debate-that's the way it is.  If it was just an inch or two , probably not detectible.  What you might be experiencing is expectation bias.  The power will go up slightly.

 

"Soft fast" isn't a good way to describe action since "soft" implies power.  If it's less than fast, it's as mentioned by another, possibly moderate fast.  But all of the subjective describers are not very accurate since all manufacturers are very loose with the descriptions.  

 

I have always described fishing a rod that has a couple inches off the tip as being like what happens when your bird dog gets impregnated by the mongrel down the road.  The dog still hunts just as well, but you feel a little differently about it.  Still the same dog. It's about me, not the dog.