Folks, if you have a multi-piece graphite rod that's got stuck so you can't get it apart (reasons range from a vacuum to lack of lubrication, and for me, I think vibrating on a long road trip in the boat until it was stuck fast), try this method:

I had a rod some yrs ago an old cheapie that was very stuck.
1st used duct tap full width and single turns but slipped.
 Then tor long strips 1/2 roll wide and wound around the bits ply off cut rod shaft.
Did much the same except instead of clamped, I tapped harder and harder with a carpenters hammer, on the ends of the bits of wood.. doing one side then the other till it just started to separate...

The crd dripping didnt work even when left over night.
 It did work on my extendable 'turn and lock' boat hook... after a bit of 'work'
 Didnt try any of the other suggested methods.


 

bazza wrote: I cannot suggest the best method to release stuck rod sections but CAN offer a simple method to avoid it happening in the first place.   The very first thing I was shown when being given fly fishing instruction was as follows  :-   Every time before assembling rod sections simply place the male part in the lower part of the outside of your nose in the groove where it joins your face then rotate the rod section 360 degrees. This readily available source of a thin layer of natural lubricant can be seen as a thin smear & by following this simple procedure you can be assured of NEVER having to face the problem of suck rod sections EVER again.   Only takes a few seconds to do therefore I am continuously surprised that hardly anyone is aware of it ... but then again had I not been shown, I too would no doubt have continued to face the ongoing dilemma of stuck sections!