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Any 'glass rod will feel pretty full-flexing compared to what folks have become used to. That's why people new to fiberglass fly rods often dramatically underestimate the line-rating of a 'glass rod, mistaking it's flexibility as a light-line weight. Anyhow, with a repair at the ferrule, that might make a trolling rod, but any rod with 4 inches off the tip will never perform well as a fly rod again. As magicwrench has said very nicely, time and money would be much better spent on another inexpensive rod. Of course you can judge the value--it wouldn't be expensive--of a repair out of sentimentality, which is very understandable. I once spent a coulple weeks totally refinishing a not-too-high-grade bamboo rod owned by my grandfather, a rod that had multiple damage/deterioration spots. I wanted to write his name on it, have it look sharp--which it does now--and hang it up, but of course I had to cast it and fish it a bit in memory as well. So off I went and immediately hooked an Atlantic salmon and lost it more or less immediately when the rod broke at the ferrule. Well, my grandfather had broken it there once before, so the whole thing was pretty much worth it, the rod still looks nice, and I was never a good hand at Atlantic salmon fishing anyhow.