What Was Your First Combo/lure?

[Senko lover]

What was the first rod/reel combo you bought and started out with? What was your first lure?

I started out with a Shakespeare Synergy spin cast combo (bunch of junk!) and bought a small tackle box that had some beetle spins, bobbers, and whatnot. The first lure I caught a fish on was a Cotton Cordell Super Spot, in bright red. I was hooked (groan) for life!

 

[BasshunterJGH]

Ugly stik w/ shimano Sedona and panther martins.

[Senko lover]

Ugly stik w/ shimano Sedona and panther martins.

 

Can't go wrong with that!

[A-Jay]

My first rod & reel combo was a vintage 1960's Sears Roebuck and Co. Ted Williams II job.

 

Included a 6 1/2 ft Two Piece Cork Handle Rod (it was like a noodle) and the model 240 spincast reel which as I remember, was a kind of putrid brown color. 

 

Gave it to my little brother when I "up graded" - wished I had kept it.

 

My first bass taken on a "Lure" ~ was on the classic Jointed Rebel Minnow

 

A-Jay

[aavery2]

I can't remember for sure but I do remember catching a lot of smaller fish on a Zebco 202 combo and a beetle spin.

[Roadblock]

In 1985 roughly my father bought two 1985 Shimano TX-110Q spinning reels and two Berkley rods. I don't remember what series the rods were but they were the same, one has red eyelet inserts and the other had yellow eyelet inserts though. I think the color difference may have represented the action?

 

My father has since passed and both rods have broken but I do currently have my fathers TX-110Q on a Shakespeare Ugly Stick. It is actually my most used rod for panfish and small large-mouth Bass. Sitting in my boat now waiting for a sunny Michigan fall day!

 

I've been meaning to pickup a Berkley 6'6" Lightening Rod just so I could have the Berkley/Shimano combo back I had as I kid.

 

I actually still have my Shimano TX-110Q too but I've lost the crank and spool. If I can track down a crank and spool, it will be my daughters reel next year or so. Going to put that one on a Berkley Lightening Rod too. The Berkley/Shimano combo caught me LOADS of fish growing up, it will for my daughter too!

 

I started on worms but I remember a Perch Rapela as being my first lure.

 

I've also own a 2014 Shimano Curado 200I on a 2015 St. Croix Avid X 7'0" Medium-Fast and a Quantum Smoke SL40PTI series spinning reel on some cheap 6'6" Medium-Heavy rod, I can't remember what brand but I know it's an IM8.

[Raul]

My first combo was a fiberglass two piece Shakespeare rod paired to a Shakespeare spinning reel, excuse me if I don´t tell which model cuz I really don´t remember, that was 41 years ago. My first lures were a Mepps Aglia size 2 gold blade in-line spinner, a Mepps Comet size 2 silver blade in-line spinner, 2 Rapala Original Floating minnow size 5 one is silver black back and the other is gold black back. Beleiev it or not I still have them. Oh man I don´t know how many trout I caught with those. Actually I caught my first bass with the silver one.

[new2BC4bass]

I didn't buy my first combo.  I was 6.  Mitchell 300.  Unknown fiberglass reel.  Probably a worm although we walked the shore picking up leeches and crayfish, so I can't be positive the worm was first.

[xxmurrxx]

Shakespeare rod / reel combo not sure on the model

First lures were hooks / sinkers / mepps spinners

First bass I can remember catching came off a jointed rapala original floater silver / black

[DogBone_384]

I've got a Shakespeare Sigma spinning reel on a 6' Ugly-Stick I bought in the early '80s. I'm pretty sure it's my first setup. I don't remember how much I paid for it, but am 95% sure I bought it @ BrayWey sports, a tackle shop that's long been replaced by 'progress'.

[*Hootie]

Zebco 606, shrink wrapped combo with an Abu reflex in line spinner.

Hootie

[F14A-B]

Zebco 202 in a box(lol) the only things I remember on the rod was it was a cork handled 2 piece with metal ferrules that were corroded togeather.. Baits were Maribou crappie jigs

[ABW]

The first one I got was probably a spiderman combo lol.

 

The one I bought was a Spiderwire spinning rod that was 30 bucks with a random spinning reel.

 

Baits I liked to use were Beetle Spins but with Powerbait grubs

[tater555]

Caught my first bass on a brim buster with a bobber, hook, and worm when I was four. The first combo I can remember getting was a Shakespeare micro spin and a pack of watermelon seed zoom lizards. I swore by those things till my friend let me fish his 6'6" matzuo combo from walmart. I loved how much more backbone the rods had and how much better they would cast, so I bought a few of them. I still have one and took it fishing the other day and felt like I was fishing with a noodle. I think I made two or three casts and got the lews back out haha

[guitarglynn1]

a vintage zebco spincast and I don't even remember what model it was? The one with the big a** donkey tooth button on it to cast. I named it " the perch catcher "  But when I played little league baseball there was a stream behind the field in the woods and I found a worn out shimano combo somebody just left there. That was my first decent combo 

[Jrob78]

I was so young I don't remember.  My guess is it was a Zebco 202 or 33 combo.

[Arv]

Some Abu garcia combo from Walmart. First lure... Probably a beetle spin

[EvanT123]

I think my first combo was probably some sort of spin cast rod and reel combo. Around 12 my dad bought me a nice daiwa spinner to put on an ugly stick and a fire tiger rapala crank. I proceeded to catch a nice little pike and throughly enjoyed watching my dad tangle with that thing with a small pair of forcepts. Lol a great memory from my childhood.

[dosam]

I chose to get some decent gear my first time out I got a orra 2sx and a mojo bass crank rod. The rod broke recently.

[LittleBob]

The first I bought was an abu from Walmart and a med/heavy gX2 ugly stik as far as lures go I started out dragging 7 and 10 inch worms t-rigged, and that's still my favorite way to fish

[Poolshark]

A Shakespeare spinning reel and rod combo. My first real bass set up.... A bps bionic blade and an abu garcia c3. My first bass lures were a rebel popper and 7inch purple worm.

[bass1980]

My first lure I got was "The Flying Lure". Made my dad order it when I saw the infomercial when I was 7 years old lol. I don't think I caught one fish with it but then again I don't think I really knew how what the heck I was doing at that age.

[JGBassinAL]

Spinning was some $15 Shimano combo from Dick's and casting was an Abu Garcia Blue Max combo from Academy. Now I have 15 customs with Shimanos on them. I guess you could say I'm addicted...

[Bluebasser86]

Roadrunner or rigged Creme Lil' Scoundrel with the prop spinner in front. Those two baits caught everything.

[OntarioFishingGuy]

I think the rod was an old Bass Pro spinning rod, and my first fish came on an Original Floater in silver with a black back.