Yeah I'm not loyal to one brand or the other. These 4 rods that broke were not all mine just to clarify. I should have said that up front. I have 1 Vertas. My cousin has 1 veritas and 2 vendettas. My other buddy has a partner and he snapped 2 of them in front of us at Falcon on hooksets. The Falcon was a Bucco not a Cara and it to broke on a hook set. All these rods were not in my boat, ever. The only one that broke in my boat was my cousins veritas. I set it down I was holding it in the middle of the rod he was unhooking a fish, I had a bite I handed him the rod he grabbed the butt and the tip about a 1' broke off. That was 3 veritas in 1 trip that were wasted.
I dislike the feel of the rod I guess because after seeing all this carnage It makes you uneasy. I feel like I could snap the veritas easily. I have a Falcon Bucco that I feel the same way about. I'm not a big fan of that rod either. I've got Falcon's that are 17 years old and other than guides cracking they have never let me down. If you like them and they work for you that's all that matters. I should have just said I'm disappointed in their durability and left it at that and saved my self from having to type a novel.
I have two bucoo's also one i absolutely love and one i feel indifferent about.
My 7' mh bucoo is ok, i like it, but it wouldnt hurt my feelings if i lost it or broke it, i might replace it with something else in that size/weight i have a revo premier on it.
now my 7'5 bucoo medium fast, i love i would fight someone if they tried to take it from me. I have a quantum smoke on it and i throw small crankbaits and light topwaters like pop-r's with it.
for that purpose that rod/reel combo is one of my favorite rods i have.
I think i might just go out and see how hard it is for my vendetta to break, just beat the hell out of it until it breaks, i don't like it really and now i'm curious to how it handles serious abuse, it won't hurt my feelings to break it at all.
i've been wanting to try a duckett micro anyway, if i break the venfetta it will give me an excuse to get another rod.
I have a cara i think, it might be a lowrider. I'm not real favorable to it either, it's a 7' heavy, i only have it nt he boat when i go to falcon and i throw heavy jerkbaits with it. when i go to falcon i only bring 1 mh, all the others i bring are h and xh rods. so some of my rods i only use on the occasional falcon trip and i don't remeber exatly what they are, not like the rods i normally carry for the lakes in my area, i know them all exatly what they are.
I knocked the tip guide out of a 7'h veritas at falcon, but that was my fault, i was using the rod tip to knock a big bagley DB3 off a brushtop, but like i said that was my fault and i exchanged it at acadamy no questions asked..
