How Many Casting Combos?

[Basseditor]

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Kistler

Zbone LE 2 med/fast 7'3"/Lews tournament LITE

ZBONE LE 3 mod/hvy 7'6"/Lews team gold

ZBONE LE 4 Mh 7'/revo STX 3

ZBONE LE 4 mh 7'3"/STX 3

ZBONE LE 5 hvy/mod fast7'6"/Johnny Morris gold

ZBONE LE 6 ex hvy 7'11"/Patriarch

ZBONE ST 7'11" a-rig/ daiwa samurai 5.1 ratio

Helium 2 MHf recoil guides/h2o mettle/braid

Hel LTA EX HVY 7'6"/daiwa TD1Hi

LTA HF 7'/STX3

LTA HF 7'6"/h2o mettle

LTA hvy mod fast 7'3"/mettle

Non Kistler —

GLoomis 6'6" IMX 783cmbr/lew's lite

Lamiglass s glass 7' 4 pwr/mettle

Lamiglass s glass 7 5 pwr/Johnny Morris gold

Lamiglass certified pro 7'6" telescoping flipping stick/Abu Morrum 5600c

Browning aggressor IMAG 6'6"mh/Pflueger summit

Browning aggressor IMAG 7' hvy/daiwa Tatula R

Saint Sebastian custom 7'6" moderate boron/revo winch

Saint Sebastian custom spiral wrap 7'3" mh/mettle

Cumara 7'11" medium fast/Lews cranking reel

I'll do the spinning rods some other time; and unpack the rods stored in rod tubes. I don't recall all the ones put away.

[Jeff H]

25 +/- for me,   All get used, some more than others.  Pulled 17 from the locker when I gutted boat for storage a few weeks ago.  They get rotated in and out all season long.  

[David P]

About 15 set ups, they all get used at least every other fishing trip depending on the pattern and body of water I'm fishing.

[ww2farmer]

I have 8 casting, and 6 spinning.

[dustin11]

8  casting and 4 spinning. All get used throughout the season. 1 extra casting and 1 extra spinning rod with no reel. Around 5 older spinning rods that get used occasionally at a pond. I plan on adding at least 2 more casting and 1 more spinning combo in the off season.

[J Francho]

I think I have a couple dozen.  They all get used.

[EvanT123]

2- one is used for spinnerbaits/big trreble hooked top waters. The other for frogs.

[CarolinaBoy4Life]

I have 9 BC rod's and reel's. All get used some more than other's. Just got a boat so I'm sure I will be getting more now that I can store them and use them without being a burden to the boater.

[new2BC4bass]

I have 9 BC rod's and reel's. All get used some more than other's. Just got a boat so I'm sure I will be getting more now that I can store them and use them without being a burden to the boater.

 

Congratulations on the boat.  Shouldn't take you long to put together another dozen or so outfits. 

[Zimobass]

My son is my fishing partner, so have to have two of everything !

Carry 34 combos on the boat at any time, and have a few more spare rods and reels at home.

 

Value wise, I tell my son it's part of his inheritance 

[F14A-B]

Now I most definitely know there really is gear heads worse than me, although not by too much..

Still, I can't imagine taking 30 rods & reels out for a outing or a weekend either.. You guys are sick!

Sick I tell you! Lol..

[Mike L]

7 baitcasters and 2 spinning.

Use them all

Mike

[ThatZX14Fella]

I have 2 casting combos. I would like to upgrade one of them after I get some spinning gear. The next casting combo on my list is a BPS PQ and I haven't decided on the rod yet. All I know so far is it'll be a Medium power.

[primetime]

I have alot of random rods and reels that are laying around that I rarely use and I only purchased them because they were fantastic deals, or I was on a trip and "needed" a certain combo for a technique I was not planning on using, or I get to the ramp after a 2 hour drive and realize I left a rod or reel at home that I "Need".

 

I am working on selling off alot of the mid range quality gear or trading it for Higher end gear so I have less,and my goal this year is to only bring 4 casting rods and 2 spinning rods at most on all trips.

 

I never spend more than $200 on combos and I always buy models from the previous year or discontinued rods etc.. I love finding a legit Reel that was selling for $250 just a year ago and then buying it 1/2 price when a company needs to unload them. I also like to check Ebay at night for auctions which can be great for finding steals as people will make a typo and the reel may not come up in regular searches, or search for brands that are quality but not popular, say Okuma or Pflueger baitcasting low profile reels which seem to not get much attention compared to Shimano, Daiwa, and Lew's. Bass Pro reels get plenty of attention, but Browing doesn't, nor does the Academy, or Cabela's house brands, or Ardent, and you would be amazed at how low you can often find a reel for dirt cheap and when you get it you realize why the person never used it and hated baitcasters since they never opened the reel to adjust the brakes.....

[Trap-n-Fish]

I only have 1 casting combo which I use for pitching jigs and creature baits. For everything else I use spinning gear.

[frogfish195]

25+ rods and 22 reels

[bootytrain]

I have about 10 reels and rods after selling a few. I don't have a boat and a small car so I only bring a max of 2 combos. A regular and a baitfinesse. While it is about catching fish, for me the experience of catching the fish is made more pleasurable with varied and nice reels and rods.

[xanadu]

10 rods cover everything and I usally start with about 6 or 7 rigged up. Any more than that and you are just wasting time in the morning getting ready to fish. Any less than that and you are just wasting time during the day re-tying lures. Someone said 26! At 2 minutes per rod to get rigged up and you just wasted an hour!!!

[IAY]

10 rods cover everything and I usally start with about 6 or 7 rigged up. Any more than that and you are just wasting time in the morning getting ready to fish. Any less than that and you are just wasting time during the day re-tying lures. Someone said 26! At 2 minutes per rod to get rigged up and you just wasted an hour!!!

 

You aren't making any friends if you include polemics in every single post you made so far, especially when its pedestrian ones. People have multiple set ups, because they enjoy using different brands/models, not to have them rigged up on something all of the time on a boat. 

 

To answer the OP; I have 3 set ups but I usually only use one for several trips, based on what kind of fishing I feel like partaking.

[gulfcaptain]

When I'm home I have a minimum of 5 combo's in my car at all times (except when I have to pick up my youngest since I have to put a car seat in).  All together, umm well I think I'm up to 15 I think, but I did see 3 other rods and reels I'd like to aquire this winter.  And there's one I want now, but won't be back in stock till the beginning of Dec. Oh and then there is another spinning rod set up I want to get.....and yes I do fish them all sooner or later. 

[J Francho]

I spend more than an hour preparing for a trip or tournament. I wouldn't call it time wasted. Besides, if I have six drop shot rods rigged up, I'll just grab another while you're retying.

[SirSnookalot]

I have somewhere around 20 combos, quite a few reels not on rods.  All but 1 is spinning and that is a conventional reel.  Usually not more than 3 combos with me when offshore, on the jettie it's 2 or 3 and shore fishing whether it's inshore or bass fishing I take only 1.  Any time spent to rig my outfits, put new hooks on lures, do my weather, plan my location and species is anything but wasted time.

[gulfcaptain]

I think preparing your tackle for each trip isn't a waste of time either.  I tend to find I enjoy that hour or more preparing and going over what I am going to fish and rigging ALL those rods up.....sometimes I change my mind and swap out a rig last minute(which was rigged as well) to take with me.  Also lets me look over my rods and make sure there is no damage to them and the reel is workig properly, if not having extras gives me the ability to swap out and not loose a set up because I only had a few.  Do I need 2 flipping/pitching rods...probably not, but both have different actions and I can change on the fly without re-tying which in a tournament that 2 min could be the difference in catching a fish and making a payday or 2min wasted.  Look at Major League Fishing 2 min time out rule.  Those pro's don't want to sit for 2 min, they want to get their baits back out in the water and fish.  I guess the hours we all fish is wasted as well, I mean I could be working, but I'd rather be fishing.

[cbass12]

9 casting 7 spinning

[new2BC4bass]

I've been extremely hesitant to put down numbers.  I have been accumulating fishing gear steadily for the past 6 years.  Hard to stop once started.  Many on here (and elsewhere) fish more in a week than I do in a month.  Some no doubt fish as much or more in a month as I do during the entire fishing season.  It seems obscene to have as much as I do and not be a tournament fisherman.  Sure....I realize others make me look like a piker, but they are financially much better off.  I haven't taken food out of anyone's mouth, but there definitely were other places the money could have gone.  Like saving for a bassboat.    I know of one guy who has trimmed his arsenal by over a 100 rods and reels.

 

Like a lot of others, I like to have my rods set up ahead of time.  If I want to switch lures, I grab another rod.  I try to keep re-tying to a minimum.  If I'm just going to the river to practice, I'll take 4-6 combos with me.  Most will have a spinnerbait on them for 2 reasons.  1) I don't have to worry about losing the lure and 2) I can't afford to populate the river bottom with my lures.  A 3rd reason would be because I never expect to catch a fish there.....although I get surprised occasionally.  If I'm actually going fishing somewhere, I'll take 8-10 combos with me.  I try to alternate so that all get used although I have 3 that get more than their fair share of use.

 

I keep a MH spinning combo and 4 casting rods (Medium and MH)  at a brother-in-law's for when I visit Florida.  The casting reels get carried back and forth.  I'd send down a couple Heavy rods, but don't want to feel like I am taking excessive advantage of my relative's kindness.  Shipping the rods back and forth would be cost prohibitive.

 

I have 8 spinning combos at home of which 2 are 40 or so years old.  The others being purchased the past 6 years.  This number alone is excessive considering I'll only take one with me and it seldom gets used.  I grew up with spinning, but when I got back into fishing I went baitcast in a big way.

 

I have a Smallmouth casting rod scheduled for delivery Tuesday and the money for a used Powell 723 should arrive Monday so I am expecting the rod to be delivered by the end of the week.  This will bring my casting rod count up to 38.  A used Tatula is scheduled to arrive Tuesday.  I believe that will bring b/c reel count up to around the 43 area.  Would have to sit down and list them all to be sure of that number.