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Mine has held up great.
Love mine as well
My FENWICK ET ICE 26ML is one tough little rod--I sat my 210 lb. body on it in my Shappell Rover 1.0 and flattened the second largest eyelet flush to the rod. Thought sure it would snap as I tried to bend it back into shape, but it didn't. It's the Tica Cetus GV500 reel that I put on it that I'm having issues with--the drag doesn't work when the temps are in the teens or colder, and here in NH that's pretty much all the time.