How Many Combo's Do You Use?

[clayton86]

How many Combo's do you guys use? not how many that you have but how many would you say you use every outing. Iv been working out a list of combo's I'm gonna set up and I got done and looked at it and was like holy crap that's a lot of set ups lol. So now Im scaling it back and thinking of what I throw the most and what lures I have because I had 2 cranking set ups on my list and I NEVER throw a crank I have maybe 15 and 10 of which are small shallow divers I use in the river on spinning tackle. So how many combos do you all use on average right now I have 4 "good" reels sitting at home 3 of which need a rod 2 Revo S's and a Citica then I already have my Veritas and Revo SX that was/is my jig/Trig combo. So how many combo's do you use and what are there uses.

[LgMouthGambler]

I had a bunch too, but I scaled back to just my trusty Shimanos.

1)Chronarch 200E7, Sellus MH, 20# Yozuri- Big Soft Plastics

2)Curado 200E7, Sellus H, 65# Braid-Frog

3)Curado 50E, Vendetta M, 12# Yozuri-Spinnerbaits during tourneys, and all around town rig

4)Citica G6, Lightning Shock MH, 17# Mono-Topwater Spooks

5)Citica E, Sellus MH, 40# Braid, Soft Plastics Heavy Cover

6)(Soon to get)Chronarch 50E, Veritas M, 12# Yozuri, Crainkbaits

[clayton86]

Right now I'm thinking

Revo SX 7'6" Veritas MHF 50# PP-Texas rigged plastics(have already)

Revo S 7' Veritas MM Winch 12# flouro of some kind- Cranking

Revo S 6'9" MHF micro- Spinners

Citica 7' MHF Lightning 50# pp- Frogs/buzzbaits(have already)

them are the reels I have so far just need 2 rods I remember I had that lightning with a Pflueger Echlon on it im gonna move to back up or maybe put on a jerkbait/topwater rod some thing 6'6" Medium action

then I'm 99% certain I'm gonna pre order a Gen 3 Revo S and mount it on the 7'11 H-MF Veritas flipping stick and that will be my jig rod and that will be it for my casting set ups and I think I have all my bases covered.

then my spinning set ups I think im gonna go with the new Revo sx on the 6'9" vendetta ML-XF for weightless plastics and lighter plastics like tubes and grubs. Then a skipping/ river wadding set up that will be a new Revo S on a 6'6" Veritas MH-F.

All I gotta do after that is get a boat to haul it haul with lol. I already bank fish with 4-6 rods as it is im just going to all new higher quality stuff instead of crappy POS combos picked up at DSG on clearance.

[tomustang]

I use two combos, the one in my sig I use for just about everything, and a 7' MHM avid crankbait rod for every crankbait I have except the tiny ones.

[Mike__D]

I tend to use anywhere between 7 to 10 combos per outing (on a boat), and if I am shore fishing 3 to 3. Here is what I normally use to make my rotation out of:

Shimano Cumara CUCX711MH 1/2 1 1/2 Soft Swimbait Team Daiwa Fuego

Dobyn's Extreme DX795 Flip Flip/Punch Team Daiwa Zillion 100SHA

Dobyn's Champion Casting 736 3/8 2 Frog Abu Garcia Revo Premier 7:1

Dobyn's Extreme DX745C Pitching Stick / Jig Pflueger Patriarch XT

St. Croix Legend Elite 7'0' MH F 3/8 1 Texas Rig Pflueger Patriarch XT

St. Croix Legend Elite 7'0' M F 1/4 5/8 Texas Rig Pflueger Patriarch XT

Shimano Cumulus 7'1' MH XF 1/4 3/4 Senko Shimano Curado 100D

Shimano Cumara 6'8' MH F 1/4 3/4 Soft Jerkbait Audrey/Pflueger Patriarch XT

Dobyns Extreme 743 3/16 5/8 Tubes Pflueger Patriarch 9535

St. Croix Avid 6'8' M XF 3/16 5/8 Wacky rig Senko Shimano Sustain 2500FE

I have 2 crankbait rods, but just like the OP I almost never throw a crankbait. I will only bring the rod out if i know 100% that I need to use it.

mike D

[KevO]

11 or 12 is whats usually in my boat. Usually take 4-5 when fishing in someone elses boat.

G Loomis BCFR 954 GLX Flippin stick / Shimano Curado 200e7 - Punchin/Flippin/C-Rig

Shimano Cumara 7'11 MH / Curado 200e5 - Deep Crankin

Shimano Cumara 7'2 MHxf / Core 100mg - TX rigs / Frogs

Dobyns Champion 705c / Chronarch 200e7 - Football Jigs / Pitchin jigs / Big TX rig

Dobyns Champion 685cb / Curado 200e7 - Topwater / Jerkbaits / Lipless cranks

St Croix Premier 7' MF / Curado 200DHSV - all purpose - mostly spinnerbaits / buzzbaits right now

Shimano Crucial 7' MHM / Curado 200DPV - squarebills / shallow and medium cranks

Shimano Crucial 6'6 MM / Cardiff 200a - finesse crankin

Shimano Crucial 7' MHF / Chronarch 50mg - Finesse jigs and light TX rig

Shimano Crucial 7'2 MH xf DS spinning / Stradic 2500 FI - Finesse

Shimano Crucial 6'8 M XF DS spinning / Stradic 2500 FH - very light finesse baits and #5 shad raps

[clayton86]

See I think once I get a boat I will really expand like how you have 2 rods for Texas rigged plastics depending on weight and one for tubes. Right now im stuck in a canoe or on the shore. The wife is all for getting a boat even a bass boat she says when shes not fishing she can lay down on the deck and tan fine by me! lol I think for this up coming season im gonna go with the combo's listed then next season add on top of that ad so on and so forth.

[KevO]

Yeah it took a while to acquire all of my gear. You don't really need 3 of this or that. I can get by with 1 but its nice to be able to tie on 3 different baits and switch between them when one isn't working. I was lucky enough to have a good job and be single for a while so I could pay for the boat and combos. LOL!

[SirSnookalot]

I fish for a variety of species in totally different environments using both bait and artificial lures, kinda tough to narrow it down.

Pond fishing freshwater................med 6/12 spinning rod 30 size reel, 10# braid

Canal freshwater...........................med 8/17 inshore spinning 35 size reel 15# braid

Inshore salt, waters edge..............med 8/17 inshore spinning 4000 reel 15# braid

Inshore salt, jettie..........................mh 10/20 spinning 4000 reel 20# braid

Inshore barracuda.........................mh 12/25 spinning 5000 reel 14# mono

Offshore salt..................................40# spin boat rod, 7000 reel 30# braid

Offshore salt..................................25# boat rod 25 size conventional 20# mono

With the exception of offshore I usually have only 1 rod with a couple of lures, always have back up gear in my car in case of mechanical failure. Offshore I take 2 or 3 rods and use them all at the same time.

I have about 25 combos, all I really need is what's mentioned, the rest is just for a change of pace, but I do like to use them all, seldom do I take the same combo 2 days in a row.

[clayton86]

Yeah it took a while to acquire all of my gear. You don't really need 3 of this or that. I can get by with 1 but its nice to be able to tie on 3 different baits and switch between them when one isn't working. I was lucky enough to have a good job and be single for a while so I could pay for the boat and combos. LOL!

Yeah that's my biggest thing is I want to be able to just switch fast and not have to rig some thing up and all this and that to find out its not what they want and have to re do it all again more combos means more time with lures in the water and not in my hands getting tied on.

[J Francho]

A good day:

A tough day:

[deep]

These 5 see the most use:

Mattlures MH/ Curado 301E: small swimbaits

Okuma H/ Cardiff 401A: medium swimbaits

GGR medium/ Calcutta 401TE: big swimbaits

Powell Max 733 spinning/ Symetre 2500: small jigs

Powell Max 753 casting/ Citica 201D: big jigs

(I don't really fish anything other than jigs and swimbaits..)

[ChiCityBasser]

I've gone from bank fishing to tourny fishing and have a number of combos that probably overlap out of the 14 combos I have right now but I'll list the ones I take out when I'm on the boat.

Cabelas XMLTi 7' M/F / Quantum Energy PT - Carolina Rig/

Cabelas Prodigy 7' MH/MF / Quantum Energy PTxm(PBS PQ 5.2:1 replacement reel) - Deep Cranking

Field & Stream Tec Spec 7'6" MH/XF / Daiwa Exceler 7.1:1 - Heavy jigs/T rigs

Cabelas Prodigy 7' M/F / Quantum Catalyst PTi-B20 - Shallow 1' to 8' Cranks

Field & Stream Tec Spec 7' MH/F / Quantum PTi-20B - Lighter Jigs/T-rigs/Shakey Head

Cabelas XMLTi 6'8" M/XF / Pflueger Supreme XT - Drop Shot

These are the 6 combos that have made every tourney trip so far this season with the top three being casting and the bottom 3 spinning combos. I have other combos that have made one or two trips but these cover all but the really heavy cover situations. In those situaltions I have on standby:

Quantum Superlite PT 7'11" H/XF / Quantum Accurist / 50# Braid - Heavy cover

Cabelas XML 7' H/F / Quantum Accurist 501 / 50# Braid - Heavy cover

[Highhawk1948]

One Flipping 3/8 oz. pegged slip sinker

Two Pitching 3/16 and 1/8 oz slip sinkers

One Drop Shot

One Charlie Brewers Slider 1/4 oz.or for Mojo Worm rig

One Charlie Brewers Slider 1/8 oz

One for Crankbaits/Spinner Baits

One ultra light with Beetle Spin

So..... 2 Spinning and 6 Casting Outfits. I use about half on them in a morning of fishing. Hardly ever throw cranks or spinner baits. I like lead and plastic.

[38 Super Fan]

I mostly beat the banks, so while I have about half a dozen different combos, I usually just bring one casting combo and one spinning combo. The two that get the most work are my Falcon Cara finese jig rod and lews tourney pro, and my 6'10" Med/F spinning Cara with President XT.

[BASSclary]

Hitting banks, I carry at most, three. I bring what I think i'll need for that water at the time of year and conditions.

However, If I had a boat.... We'll you can bet i'll throw the kitchen sink.

[dale.m]

At the moment...

6 1/2ft Abu Veritas MH/ Citica/ 30lb braid - Top Water/Universal

7ft Kistler Helium LTA MH/ Orra SX/ 15lb Fluro - Soft Plastics

Stay tuned for more to come

[Bass_Fanatic]

I use em all.

Casting

1. Powell Endurance 714C/Plueger President - 16lb Sunline Sniper (heavy T-rig, spinnerbaits, chatterbait, hollow body swimbaits)

2. Phenix Recon 764/Diawa Zillian 100 SHA - 20bl Sunline Sniper (Pitching/Swimbaits)

3. St. Croix Avid 7' MH/F/Shimano Curado 50E - 14lb Sunline Sniper (T-rigs, C-rigs)

4. Shimano Cumara 7'2" M/XF/Shimano Citica 200E - 12lb Sunline Sniper (light T-rigs)

5. Shimano Crucial 7' M/XF/Shimano Citica 200E - 12lb Suffix Seige (jerkbaits)

6. Dobyns Savvy 734C/Shimano Curado 200E - 65lb Suffix 832 braid (Frogs)

7. Powell Max 703CB Glass/Shimano Curado 200B - 12lb Suffix Seige (deep cranking/sqaurebill)

8. BPS Carbonlite 7' M/M/Shimano Curado 200B - 12lb Suffix Seige (mid cranks)

9. Abu Garcia Vendetta 6'9" MH/F/H2O Mettle - 15lb Yozuri Hybrid (Everything)

10. Cabelas XMTLi 7' MH/F/Pflueger Patriarch - 12lb Pline CXX (topwater/squarebill/spinnerbait)

11. IROD Genesis II 7'10" Bama Rod/Pflueger President - 65lb Suffix 832 braid (Alabama rig/punching)

Spinning

1. Abu Garcia Veritas 7' M/F/Diawa TDZ - 6lb Yozuri Ultra Soft (dropshot)

[jerzeeD]

4-5 all depending where I am going and what species lives there.

[BassinMD]

I take 6 but I only really use 4 a spinning rod for senkos And random sissy stickin, a frog / punch rod for heavy slop and pads with braid, and 2 jig rods one for pitching with 20 # flouro and one for casting with 15# flouro, te other 2 almost never get used

[ww2farmer]

I carry ten in the boat, on a good day, I will use two or three rods all day, on an average day I will have 5-7 out, on a tough day all of them will be out. I tend to be a "junk" fisherman even when fishing is good, I just can't sit in one spot and do one thing all day long, but I can do one thing all over the lake, or I like to switch up in one spot aftre a while and show them a few different things.

[NorcalBassin]

Used to have about 10 with me and then I started realizing I was only using 3-4 each trip and it was quite a bit of wasted space and time getting them all rigged up. Now I try to limit myself to 5 (3 casting, 2 spinning).

[Hooligan]

IT really depends on what I'm doing. If I'm crankin' even on a good day I may have five rods on the deck. On a bad day in general, I may have six or eight out. If It's a jig bite, I'll generally have three rods out with three weights of jig.

How many do I carry in the boat? Usually 36.

[LgMouthGambler]

IT really depends on what I'm doing. If I'm crankin' even on a good day I may have five rods on the deck. On a bad day in general, I may have six or eight out. If It's a jig bite, I'll generally have three rods out with three weights of jig.

How many do I carry in the boat? Usually 36.

36? How big is your boat? 100ft?

[clayton86]

I know really lol I don't even think iv owned 36 rods in my life and iv been fishing sense I was 2 that's 23 years lol iv owned maybe 15.