What's Your Favorite Rod And Reel You Have?

[OntarioFishingGuy]

I have been enjoying a10.5 foot ML Avid steelhead rod with a Stradic 3000FJ, as well as a 6'8'' LTB with a Chronarch 50E.

[dwong]

I love my LTB 610MLXF with a Saros, but hoping to upgrade to the Stradic Ci4+

[SirSnookalot]

Man Ultralight fishing is a blast!!!! Them 2lbers are fun as heck on an ultralight set up, and then you occassionally run into that rogue 4/5lber and you better pack a lunch in thwt case found that out the hard way a couple weeks ago.

This puppy was caught on my ul set up a few weeks ago using a Storm chug a bug.  Quite confident it was bigger than 2# but no where near my biggest bass.  May have been the most fun I ever had catching a LMB, the fish actually peeled off quite a bit of drag and took a considerable amount of time to land.

[timsford]

My favorite combo i own is a team lews carbon spinning reel on a fenwick elite tech smallmouth spinning rod. Total weight of the combo is less than 12 oz with a 300 size reel. Weighs less than just my old daiwa 3000 size reel alone and has enough power to reel in every fish ive hooked on it so far.

[bootytrain]

This one

 

Followed by this one

[Sam]

Tournament fishing: My G. Loomis rods.

 

Fun fishing: My Bass Pro Shops Extreme rods and Cranking Stick.

[Klint]

Curado E7 on 7'2 MH Carrot Stix

[illinifan4152]

Chronarch 200E7 w/ Kistler Magnesium TS

[Catt]

Curcial CRC-X610MH

Calcutta 100A

[bmlum415]

Dx744 with a metanium Xg

[new2BC4bass]

The combo I use the most which has become my favorite is a Fenwick Techna AV with a Curado E7 reel.

It's my plastics combo.

With 15# Invisex it's darn near perfect for what I do.

Mike

 

Hmmmm.  My 201E7 is looking for a home.  Assume it is the 7' MHF rod?  I do have a Medium and a Heavy also.

[Patrick Morrow]

For heavy saltwater use, Penn Spinfisher V has been my only spinning reel. Recently my old Spinfisher started to let some saltwater after 5 years of heavy use and it started to make some loud cranking sound. I probably could have disassembled and located the problem myself or sent it to service, but I thought it`s time to switch reels and pick something new. After searching for new reel after some time I decided still to buy new Spinfisher. I would love to try out something new for a longer period, but it just works so well it would not be practical.

Rods, I use G.Loomis GL2. I have used a lot of rods, but it seems to be only one to still last.

[Mike L]

Hmmmm.  My 201E7 is looking for a home.  Assume it is the 7' MHF rod?  I do have a Medium and a Heavy also.

It is.

Trust me when I tell you, if you can find a MH/F for the E7, you'll never want to move it.

I had 65# braid on at one time and used it exclusively as my heavy cover punching outfit and it did ok. As a dedicated bottom contact combo for all types of presentations, from shaky heads to flippin and pitching in moderate to heavy cover, for me its darn near perfect.

Mike

[Big Swimbait]

Until recently, all of my combos have been ***/Lews with no complaints. But I was looking for a swimbait rod & kept seeing recommendations for the Okuma Guide Select Swimbait rod. I was extremely impressed with the rod, especially for the price. One day while surfing the auction site, I saw an Okuma Serrano reel with a C3X40 rod combo with a high bid price of $90.00 with a few hours left. Since I liked the swimbait rod so much, I did some research & found the TW price was over $300.00 for the combo. So I threw a max bid of $125.00 & forgot about it until I found out I won it for $110.00. I fished it for the first time last month in a club tournament & was more than impressed. I found myself cutting & re-tying instead of grabbing another rod.

[ChrisWi]

I don't have one in particular, each combo is tool. If I had to pick one combo to fish I'd say my St Croix Premier 6'6" M/F and Lews SS. Maybe not the most versitile but just a combo I love to fish with

[Beam]

Quantum EXO Tour 6'10" MH with a Lews Tournament Pro. Crazy light.

Quantum does not get much love on this forum but the EXO Tour 6'10"is a great rod

[Steveo-1969]

For where and how I fish, I use my spinning combo every time and love it.  I've had it since March and have caught everything from 6" smallmouth to a 15# muskie on it.

 

G. Loomis WPJR 821S GLX paired with a 3000 size Shimano Stradic CI4+.  10# Sufix 832 braid with 8# fluoro leader.

[Big Bait Fishing]

My favorite rod ..

Rainshadow 944.5

7'10" heavy powered ,fast action

Spiral wrapped with a Fuji 5.5 lowrider and 9 Batson SIC micro guides with a Batson braced 4 mm micro tip .

17" split grip handle with 2.5" rear EVA grip and Batson EVA tear drop shaped fighting butt .

Fuji SKT graphite split reel seat .

[bbodkin]

My curado 200g6 with my powell max 704 use it for jigs. I got it recently and I thought to myself on the first cast that it's my favorite

[masterbass]

Daiwa TDZ R+ with 7.1 gear set on a megabass f5 75 x7 extreme mission.