So now, 20 years later, I bought one. At $26, it was a pittance compared to the custom medium-action inshore rod that I commissioned at The Rod Room in Orange Beach, Alabama earlier this year – only to later snap it in a car door. It hurts the first time an expensive piece of gear goes overboard or breaks, but in time it just becomes an understood cost of doing business. That’s fishing.
So now, 20 years later, I bought one. At $26, it was a pittance compared to the custom medium-action inshore rod that I commissioned at The Rod Room in Orange Beach, Alabama earlier this year – only to later snap it in a car door. It hurts the first time an expensive piece of gear goes overboard or breaks, but in time it just becomes an understood cost of doing business. That’s fishing.