Welll...Three - that I can remember...The first was when I was a kid, a friend cast a spinning rod over me and broke the tip of my rod off. The second was when I broke the tip off my rod while putting the rod back in the tube - at a Redding Rod Bash (of all places!) - No, it wasn't the rod I was building. The third was a brand new rod, first time I'd used it, hadn't even made a (fishing) cast with it, snuck up to a nice hole, was hiding behind a tree...slipped, smacked the rod against a branch of the tree, and broke it. That was the most frustrating...
CB