Two - one got the rod box lid shut on it and one broke on a hookset.

6 in my fishing lifetime.....only two on hook sets though, the rest were my fault.

20+ to the best I can remember. Rod company I was with had a batch of bad blanks for several years. Broke a few that I have built before I learned light/sensitive does not mean durable. You have to find a mixture of both. And rods are disposable. They have a life. The harder you are with them (bruises, rod lockers, transportation) the shorter that span is.

That's true!! I bet that happens a lot. I guess I have never returned any of the rods I broke. Those two allstars I had used for at least a year with no issues so I'm not sure what happened. I just lost confidence in them after that. I have friends who swear by them and never have issues so Idk, I just use other stuff now.

4, broke one Thursday. Stepped on my rod on the deck broke the reel seat.

To many to remember, back in my early days Walmart was about the only game in town back home and I broke everything I ever bought there usually in short order....I finally discovered high end rods at a local sporting goods store and it pretty much stopped there. I've broken two rods in the past 30 years and that was because I stepped on them.......

Most everyone of my dads while growing up, once I was older I was able to replace everyone of his I broke and then some. Probably 15 total, and most all were my fault. Only two that I can think of broke on hooksets, and both were the same model rod, must have been a bad batch.
JR

6 so far

Most broken rods have been my fault. But one I remember clearly as broken by a fish. The day was at Gibbons creek and we had a few OK fish under our belt. The wind picked up so I tied up to a stump off the inlet channel as I don't have power poles. I'm pulling a big baby bass pattern BPS tournament stickbait over the pads and WHAM!! The critter ate the bait AND the pad. The rod bent to the butt and I scrambled to get the boat untied while fighting the fish. Before I untied it made a run and I turned it but it tried to jump. It got about half it's body out of the water so I could see it for the first time. I froze. I had never seen a mouth on a fish like that except for tarpon. From my memory, I could probably stuff a basketball in that basses mouth. I might be exaggerating but I have a license to do that, I'm a fisherman... If not a basketball, a soccer ball.

To end the story, the rod broke below the 2nd guide from the top. I can't even remember what the rod was, probably something cheep because that all I used to buy. I'm working with Trey Kistler now & getting sweet rods.

That same day when I was getting my better half out of the boat at the dock, I busted a MK prop and jacked my gelcoat on the cap. I was a grumpy gut on the way home.

I'll be back at Gibbons until I setting the score with that lake.

3

A bad day for broken rods that is burned into my memories was about 20 years ago. I loaded up the kids in the Suburban to go to our stock tank to fish. I rolled down the back window on the Suburban and put the rods in leaving them hanging out the rear door window. As I was backing out of the driveway I reached over out of habit and rolled the rear window up. As I looked in the rearview mirror I could see all the rods being broken as the window raised. Needless to say there was no fishing trip that day.

Between broken or pulled overboard by fish or whatever. Probably 20-30. Little mans catching up to me fast though!

4 or 5 Only 1 fishing and i think my buddy stepped on it the same guy step on one of my reels also. All rest were my fault. damn

I'd say 3 on hook sets and countless others ranging from truck bed to rod lockers.

I have broken so many,so many different ways, over the last 45yrs or so I can't remember. The one I do remember was just a couple weeks ago, I am in the process of replacing all my Falcon/Revo combos with new ones so my first setup I replaced was my jig rod, got my new Falcon LFC 7-172 with a new Revo SX all from TW, put it together add line wipe it down looks really great........then proceed to stick it in the ceiling fan that was on high.my beautiful 7.2" jig rod in now about 6.4", thinking about putting a new tip on it and making it a close quarters pitching stick