Replacing a Fishing Rod Tip

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December 18, 2006 at 5:45 pm

(1) Gary says:

Rod tip tops came in a varity of sizes and many are available for purchase on the internet. Yet one must be able to determine the “size”. I can fairly well do this by finding the diameter of the rod pole tip, but please advise how this correlates to the tip top size.

December 19, 2006 at 2:34 pm

(2) fishing says:

Rod tips tubes are measured in milimeters. You can order them by mm size, for example Bass Pro Shops catalog lists replacement Fuji tips from 5 to 8 mm in .5 mm increments. The best bet is to take your rod to a local bait and tackle store and they can find one to fit. Berrys’s Sporting Goods in Griffin, my local store, offers replacemnt tip repair for about $10. The tops cost about @2.

I am adding this comment as part of the article. Thanks!

August 15, 2008 at 12:32 am

(3) joe says:

(2)fishing says: is wrong about rod tips being measured in mm they are measured in 64th

August 16, 2008 at 9:13 pm

(4) fishing says:

You may be able to get tips on 64ths inches but if you do a search on rod tips you will find most are measured in millimeters – in fact all I can find to order come in millimeters now. Can you show me a source for tips in 64ths inches?

October 16, 2008 at 2:03 pm

(5) chuck says:

I’ve seen some of each on the web.
For example the site below offers tips in both mm and American Standard which I assume are in 64ths.

http://stores.ebay.com/Dbluefishing

According to the size chart they display with their tips; it looks like tips listed with mm sizes increment in 0.2 mm steps and tips in American Standards sizes appear to increment in half size increments or 5/128″ steps.

August 9, 2009 at 9:05 am

(6) dave says:

the diameter of the eye is measured in millimeters (1mm = .039″ [rounded off]) and the dialeter of the tube that goes over the end of the rod is measured in hundredths of an inch. size 4 = .040 in. size 8 = .080 in. now it is anyone’s guess why.