What Was Your First Combo/lure?

[WRB]

Some things you don't forget, this is one of those.

Reel was Langley Lure Cast, Rod was Cololin 5 1/2' bass rod, line Ashley Camo Dacron 12 lb., lure was Hawaiian wiggler #3 weedless spoon red/white, second lure was Creek Chub Injured Minnow silver shiner.

Both surface type lures and I was 10 years old. Saved the money by helping my brother work on a boat landing all summer to buy my first bass fishing outfit.

Tom

[gardnerjigman]

Zebco 33 on an ugly stick. #3 purple mepps.

[Josh Smith]

Mine was a Zebco 66.  I outgrew it, graduated to a Zebco 33.

 

I don't recall the rod.  It had to be a light or ML glass job.

 

I outgrew it a bit later on and the reel, at least was replaced with a Zebco 33. 

 

My first lures were Mepps inline spinners and Beetle Spins.

 

Josh

[hatrix]

It kinda impossible for me to know what my first combo was but I know what the first one I ever bought my self was. I bought a Mitchell spinning reel back when it was made in the USA and they were good reels and then I paired it with a St. Croix worm rod. It had yellow inserts and I am pretty sure they were glass actually. It was I guess tech specific since I am pretty sure it had a picture of a worm on it. It was so long ago and I was like 8 or 9 so I can't totally remember. But I dropped some serious coin that day on fishing stuff and I was just a little kid. I had nicer stuff then lots of the adults I would see fishing. 

[Oregon Native]

Gosh...don't think I can remember that far....the first outfit I remember using was a white shakesphere flyrod with a plufger reel.  Ended up putting a Mitchell 308 on it for fishing bait.  Also remember upgrading to a four piece eagleclaw and using a motoroil colored lizard with it's legs cut off to look more like a worm to catch bass.

[tholmes]

My first combo was a Zebco 202 and a Zebco rod. It was used mostly for drownin' worms for panfish. When I was 10 years old, my grandpa told me that if I was going to be a "serious" bass fisherman, I needed a proper rod and reel, so he gave me an old Shakespeare model 1920 Wondereel on a 5-1/2' steel rod and a handful of old bass lures. I caught my first bass using that combo and a yellow / red spot Lazy Ike. 

 

Tom

[einscodek]

ugly stik + grub

[PersicoTrotaVA]

My first combo that I can remember was a Zebco 404, on a Zebco 5'6 or 6' rod(pistol grip), spooled with 20 lb mono.  My favorite lure to use was a zoom fat albert grub, but not a zoom, it was a walmart special.  The color was bright green.  I used to put it on a lead jighead, 1/8 or 1/4 oz and just slow reel it back on the bottom.  I also liked the gray slug gos rigged the same way and fished the same way.  I was 12 and I thought I was Bill Dance hahahahaha.

[Delaware Valley Tackle]

As a kid I had a Zebco 404 reel and Zebco 5'6" pistol grip rod. One of my first artificial baits was a Creme worm on a harness / spinner. Caught a lot of creek bass and chubs with the occasional trout thrown in. Suckers and bullhead on night crawlers. Lost that combo when we tried carp fishing and I didn't leave the bail open. The rod bent over and before I could grab it out of the crotched stick, over the bank and down the river it went. 

[BassSlayer71]

Quantum Accurist reel with a Quantum rod.  First lure used was probably a Terminator spinnerbait but the first bass I caught on a lure was a deep diving crankbait in a baby bass color.  Not sure the brand though.