The Tip Board

Emergency snake foot fly rod repair in the field.

When the wraps of your guides come undone in the field, use a couple pieces of shrink tubing to hold the guides on until you can get them back to be repaired. The tubing is cheap, shrinks to 1/3 of it's original size, and can only be removed by cutting it off. I carry several different sizes and colors in my tackle bag for various repairs, the shrink tubing can also be used as lure material or rod blank repair on a cracked rod in an emergency.