If You Drop a Charter Rod Overboard?

[Captain Rich]

Originally Posted by chrislars

That I would say is the boats problem for not having better or newer equipment. Generally its not the anglers fault (or a huge fish) that breaks the gear, but just poor maintenance or cheap gear.

"just poor maintenance or cheap gear".
Whoa !!!!!!!! Years ago I had a muscle bound muscle brained angler try to get his snagged line free of a wreck. Instead of jigging the tip gently, he put all of his back and arms into bending the rod to lift the wreck off of the bottom. Of course my graphite rod couldn't take the abuse and snapped mid rod. Poor maintenance ? cheap gear ? not hardly.....poor understanding of fishing ? Yes. Then upon docking he ran off of the boat while his group was doing photos, never offered to make good on the rod, and the boss of his company, who arranged the charter never offered either !