Steps wrote: I broke 6" of the tip of my 7' 2" okuma soft bait in the new year.. in the back of the truck. Gutted...so big research ask around etc. ?In the mean time I put a new eye on the top, see how it did go. Was surprised just how well it did perform thu, best comparison would be between the shamano katana and the okuma x factor... Since it was also a obsoleted model sourcing a new upper was not on the card. Yes can splice.. expoxies, sleeves whipping etc, and even thu some off shore experts recon they can fix to original performance, the science to do so is just not there. I replaced with a little shorter okuma nano matrix...missing the extra few inches, still nice cast...tiny pros and cons compared to my orginal but still very happy considering. Old rod religated to guest soft bait stray line .....but think the wife has her eye on it after using last trip, over her x factor. Only real way to fix, is replace the section from a same rod...may I should have also posted and some had an old rod laying around to |
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