Tenkara Dragontail

Last Oct i entered a composition in a writing contest,  one of the prizes I won was a fly rod.  A Dragontail from Tenkara,  After reading and studying about the the rod I was ready to slay fish! So Thursday was the first time it was in the water.   Got a hit right and and then horror of horrors, a section broke! I lost 2 sections with the fish and had a piece of the third.   Now granted this was a prize in a contest, so i did nor pay out the 125.00 dollar (US) price.  But I really expected more from all the hype I've read about these lightweight allegedly great rods.   I sent an email to the company and to date have received no response.  However I did see on the website where new sections could be purchased at the nominal price of 14 dollars each plus shipping.  So to repair what is apparently a piece of crap rod will cost me 40 dollars!  A bit of cost analyst,  a Shakespeare kit from a box store is only 17.00 dollars,  I have one that has caught quite a lot of fish and even though it is cheap it DID NOT BREAK the first time in the water.  A Zebco 33 is a bit more and is much better than the Shakespeare, or at least in my opinion.  So my frugal based recommendation is to skip over the Tenkara product line,  and get a known quality fishing rod.

Also the customer service at Tenkara is as crappy as their fly rods.  I have yet to receive an answer about their replacement / repair policies.  I've never had such a problem with Zebco.

So y'all have great fishing days now that spring is here, catch lots of fish!

See ya on the creeks!   Blake