Broke my first rod over the weekend.  Was my flipping stick which I just started using this year and caught my biggest fish on.  Set the hook on a 3lber and my first two guides just popped off. Got the fish but was really bummed.  Just wanted to see how many rods have broken on you guys.

When fishing?  Zero.  Otherwise two.

ive broken at least 5 or 6 tips in my lifetime. no damage while fishing.

Broke my first rod over the weekend. Was my flipping stick which I just started using this year and caught my biggest fish on. Set the hook on a 3lber and my first two guides just popped off. Got the fish but was really bummed. Just wanted to see how many rods have broken on you guys.

never on a fish,was it a cheap stick maybe you dont store them right (i.e against something with the tip bent) my friend keeps his in a closet like that and never fails once a year he busts a tip off cause of the way he stores his rods.

Three... one fishing, one my stupidity, and one my wife's stupidty.  

One.

My fault.

Got lure caught in a tree and pulled real hard and rod snapped.  

Two.

Never broke one so far I hope I don't screw myself by saying that.

None

Couple in car doors...one while fishing. Got hung up and gave a very modest tug on an 8ft Ugly Stick. Broke right into down at the handle end. Looked like you took a set of channel locks and cut it! No splintering or anything.  Took it back to BPS and they gave me a new one.

About 5 in 40+ years. Not too bad I guess.

Most memorable rod breakage was on the first DD bass of my life.... an 11-11, and I still landed the fish with the rod broke off right above the first guide ;-)

Peace,

Fish

Back in the early days of graphite rods? Probably 2 or 3. It was not uncommon for those early graphite rods to snap on hooksets.

Since then? Only 2 I can think of that broke solely due to rod failure, one of those includes a reel seat that came apart.

I've broken quite a few but car doors, doors in my house,  rod lockers, stepping on them, etc. is the usual way.

Only two on fish, and I suspect the were defective.  Their replacements work fine to this day.  Another two or three through stupidity.

1 rod in 30 years..

Broke on hookest because of a nick were a spinnerbait had hit the blank at the second guide from the tip...

Tight Lines!!!  

Never "fishing", but accidents happen.    :

i aint never broke a rod while fishing or goin to fishing or back i have broke tips off in house on fans/doors before,I seen buddys brake rods before and i was looking for this

I've only broken one while fishing in 45 years.  That was a Shimano Bantam back in the mid 80s.  It just snapped when casting a spinnerbait.  

I have broken one of two other through clumsiness or just plain dumbness.

Broken two, one in a car door and the other in the front door.

while fishing or on a fish= 0

at home=1  

ive broken 3 in the past month:

1- my nephews cheap daiwa rod. Got a snag, gave it a pull snapped in half

2- my brand new crucial which the guide caught in a cleat on my brothers boat and ripped off

3- a cumara which broke while pitching jigs in grass. Just snapped. no snag no nothing honest. braught it back to shimano and got a new one he said sometimes it happens.

I am happy to have baught good shimano rods because i got a service center 15 minutes from my house and their warranty is amazing

Just last week, my first break in over twenty years:

http://www.bassresource.com/bass_fishing_forums/YaBB.pl?num=1245010464

By the way, BPS e - mailed me back, basically they said I'm SOL.

The rod is six months out of warranty, I figured it was worth a shot.

zero!

3 total while fishing, 0 not fishing

2 of the 3 were Quantum KVD signature series rods...one on a hookset and the other fighting a fish

The other was a BPS crankin stick while swinging a fish in the boat.

1 while fishing, and a couple more years ago out of stupidity.

The fishing one could also be put in the stupidity group I guess too. Just last month I hooked a 4lb bass on a jig in a laydown and swung him into the boat fast, high and hard, broke my 7' MH Avid down about 3 guides from the tip. Sounded like a gun shot in the boat. But St. Croix took care of it, even after I told them how I busted it. Won't do that again.

Then back in my teen years I broke several in car doors, stepping on them while bank fishing, falling down steep banks, etc.etc.etc........... all the stupid things kids do to brake stuff.

1 UL, swatting at a snake that snuck up on me like some sort of  ninja