Video: St. Croix Rod Tip Repair

Freak accidents–they happen. My favorite fishing rod is a St. Croix Pearl Avid Spinning rod. I will admit that I don’t know a lot about rod maintenance and repair so I have to make sure to take care of them.

Back to those freak accidents. This summer Arkansas temperatures not only hit triple digits but held a blistering level for days on end. It’s this weather pattern that I’ve chosen to bear the majority of the blame for the accident that caused the injury to my precious St. Croix rod.

While driving down a stretch of interstate, my back window exploded, and the rod was in the back seat. In the aftermath of the explosion, I noticed that the ceramic ring of my tip-top was gone. Luckily, I have a friend, Dan Johnston, who is a regional sales representative for St. Croix Rods. At a recent conference, I asked him how to repair my rod. I filmed him explaining how to make the repair. Check out the video below to watch how to repair your tip-top.

httpv://youtu.be/llLSDwP_fzo

Dena Woerner

Dena Woerner is the president of Argia Media, LLC and a strategist for Traditions Media, LLC. She is the former Tourism Division Communications Director for the Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism where she was the editor of state tourism publications, blogs and web content. Dena is a published outdoor freelance writer and editor. She plans and organizes fishing industry writer's events and photo shoots. She has been published in the River Management Journal, Arkansas Wild, North American Fisherman, and in National Wildlife Federation publications, to name a few. She has appeared in Outdoor Life photo essays, Sporting Clays magazine, and has been a featured guest on episodes of Midwest Outdoors, Illinois Outdoors,Wisconsin Outdoors and local Arkansas television fishing segments. She is a former culinary and hospitality & tourism instructor. An avid cyclist, she competes in woman's crosscountry cycling events. Dena holds a B.A. in Marketing form the University of Arkansas, a M.A. in Professional Communication from Purdue University and is Certified in Tourism Crisis Communications from the University of Florida.