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Anyone who fishes with any kind of regularity breaks fishing rods.\u00a0 They are so thin and long.\u00a0 Most rods are broken in car doors, tail gates, under foot and in\u00a0general boat mayhem.\u00a0 Sometimes they are broken with a fish on the other end.\u00a0 I would have preferred to keep mine in one piece (instead of 3) but barring that option I would rather snap one bringing in a fish than stepping on it.\u00a0 That\u2019s what happened today.\u00a0 It was a struggle and he took his toll (he also bent my landing net) but he was boated.\u00a0 Now that I have that out of the way \u2013 the next time I will just cut the line.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Anyone who fishes with any kind of regularity breaks fishing rods. They are so thin and long. Most rods are broken in car doors, tail gates, under foot and in general boat mayhem. Sometimes they are broken with a fish on the other end. I would have preferred to keep mine in one piece (instead […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":956,"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions\/956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\nTo see the terror of the deep that did this to me click <\/span>HERE<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"