You bought a 10 1/2' rod for a reason. Send it back in. Lamiglas is fairly nice to work with. Just went thur the same type of deal, broke the tip section of a 10+ year old G1306 8 1/2, wrote letter, sob story, they didn't buy it........but got a whole new replacement rod for $53.00.....Then decided that I would like to upgrade and go to a different length.....so I called them....$53.75 more and I now have a X96LS.

Very happy........

"Worse day sport fishing, still better than the best day working"
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"Worse day sport fishing, still better than the best day working"

"I thought growing older, would take longer"