b'Feature3 Main Takeaways1. Wash your rods down in warm soapy water.2. Check the guides and ceramics for damage before fishing (this allows time for repairs).3. Don\'t use a rod with cracked or damages guides (it will damage your line and bust off on that big fish!). Graeme likes to shower with his rods at the end of the day using the warm soapy water to remove salt.I hear it all the time from anglers,swivels or jig heads and jigs areonto hard surfaces and bundling "This braid is rubbish, it keepsthe main cause for the tip ceramica bunch of rods up together.breaking.I then simply ask to seegetting damaged or more to theEyelets can at times fall out with the rod and reel, only to discoverpoint, winding them up so they hituse, causes can be knots consistently a guide or the tip with a crackthe tip. Just remember these tips usebeing cast through them and or chip.Inspect the guides guysa hard but easily damaged ceramic. eventually loosening the ceramic before blaming the line. For theA helpful solution is to put a softglue or metal guide framers that get sake of a $20 tip or $35 guide it islumo bead between the swivels,bent out of shape. If this happens less expensive than a $60-$100jig heads or hook and the tip tostop using the rod as the metal respool that wasn\'t needed. prevent damage for those insistingguide frame will simply damage your Tips and guides would be theon winding right up to the topline and then you\'re in for more number one rod repair last summer;guide.For guides, the numbercosts.If you hook that big fish with I personally would have replaced 30one cause of damage is by roughdodgy guides, it will bust off and rods for frustrated anglers.Sinkers,handling, with accidentally droppedyou have lost that long awaited PB.24FISHING IN GODZONE MAGAZINE'