One rod, one line and one lure?

[Breakin heads]

If you had to pick one rod, line, and lure to use for the rest of your life what would it be?

Mine would be a 7'2" falcon cara heavy with 17lbs mono and a green pumpkin jig.

[EvanT123]

7'0 Medium Light fast St Croix Avid, 10lb braid and 10 pound mono leader, and white zoom super fluke.

[Darren.]

I'd pick my most recent acquisition:

6'3" St. Croix Legend Tournament Walleye Spinning Rod
2500 Shimano Stradic FJ

10 or 15 lb Power Pro Yellow Braid + leader

[K_Mac]

The problem with these types of threads is there is no one size fits all answer. A jig on heavy line would work very well much of the time in some waters. In others not so much. I might take a spinning rod with 8# fluorocarbon using a trickworm on a shakeyhead. I could catch fish most of the time, but it would not the best solution at others. And what about when a lipless crankbait is killing, or a squarebill, or a chatterbait, or a wacky rig, or a spook, or a frog, or a hollow body swimbait, or a beaver, or a grub, or...? Life is too short, and much of the fun of fishing for me is finding what works best today.

[Airman4754]

My Loomis GL2 spinnerbait rod, 7:1 reel, and Trilene XL 12lb. 3/8oz white spinnerbait, double blades. 

[bowhunter63]

My Lews 6 6 med rod,lews high speed baitcaster 12 lb flouro and a Rage craw.

[Fisher-O-men]

Zebco 33, Red Cajun, and  Helicopter Lure!

[Fishinthefish]

St croix legend tournament, medium extra fast, 12 flouro, biospawn worm

[Fishes in trees]

I'm glad I don't have to pick.   I haven't been out yet this year, looks like it might be in the cards Weds or Thurs. next week.   I've got 22 rods rigged & ready to go in the fishing truck.   If my Curado 70 that I ordered comes in, I'll have 23.   I understand that some guys want to go 

"minimalist".   Been there - done that - back when I was a meat fishing bush hippie, several years ago.     Don't have to do that anymore, so I don't.

[Junk Fisherman]

Largemouth- blk/blue jig with a chigger craw trailer

Smallmouth- 4" green pumkin tube

[Dan_the_fisher]

Megabass xx emtf 7'5", 16# super fc sniper, zoom z-craw California 420 color, 3/16 tungsten with a 5/0 owner wide gap.

[Rbm18]

Dobyns 703, 12lb flouro, black/blue senko

[Burtonxj]

6'3" MF Loomis Bronzeback, 2500 Stradic FJ, 10lb PP / 8lb FC leader, Green pumpkin Zoom Ultravibe Speed Craw.

[WI_Angler1989]

I like this question. Its not "what rod does everything" but what you would be satisfied with. It's the sacrifice.

Me, I'd take my 610mlxf St Croix Legend Tournament Bass spinning rod.

I'd spool it with 15lb power pro   hi-vis and a 10# super sniper leader.

The lure is wayyyyy harder to pick for me...... maybe a spinnerbait? Or Inline spinner? Maybe a Finesse jig? Wait no, Texas rig Power worm? Plastic craw? Oooo a jerkbait?! Gah...A Grub?.........

I think in the end I'd settle on a 2.5" watermelon blue fleck Cabin Creek tube on a 1/4oz draggin head. I can fish a tube traditionally, hop it, swim it, dead stick it, flip it, fish deep shallow. A lot of things can do that but I just like tubes. So do the smallies here luckily! Honestly, I'd regret not picking a grub if I picked a tube, and wish i had a tube if I picked the grub. Good thing it's hypothetical haha

[N Florida Mike]

M/H 6.5 Ugly stick.10 pound original stren and watermelon seed fluke.Don't have a big preference on the reel but I'd prefer probably any diawa spinning reel with a high gear ratio.

[Josh Smith]

Cherrywood MH/F, Ambassadeur 5500c5, PowerPro 65lb braid, black/blue weedless jig.

[offsidewing]

What I grab when I only take one combo:

St Croix 68MXF, 6lb Yo-Zuri Hybrid, and if it was one bait for every where I fish:  Fat Ika in Green Pumpkin.

[new2BC4bass]

What's the matter, JC?  Cabin Fever setting in?      I'm with K_Mac and Fishes in trees.  As a youngster all I had was one rod although lures were normally bait I could catch or dig up such as Nightwalkers, worms, grubs, small Leeches, occasionally minnows, or crawdads (what we called crabs...with one in its soft shell state being solid gold).  In my late teens I often fished Roostertails and Beetlespins.

Luckily it is only a theoretical question.  I've managed to accumulate more combos over the years than any one person needs.  When I go fishing there are seldom 2 rods set up with the same type lure.  I like fishing a spinnerbait on a MHF rod, but admit it isn't always the best choice.  It can be fished fast, slow, top, bottom, in between, in cover, steady retrieve, hopped, etc.  I know a jig is suppose to be a much better all-around lure, but have never become much of a jig fisherman.

I like a 12# mono or co-polymer line with Siege and AN40 being current favorites.  It is very hard to chose just one rod.  My custom Rainshadow RX7 7' MHF might get the call.  You didn't ask about which reel, but since I like to use 3/8 oz. or heavier spinnerbaits, then my Zillion 50th Anniversary would be a top choice.  Can reel slow or burn.  A plus is it is pretty much a set and forget reel.  Also looks good on the red accented Rainshadow. 

[kickerfish1]

If I had to fish with one rod, one reel, and one bait for the rest of my life I would probably look for a new hobby. Too many fun rods, reels and presentations to be confined to just one.

[Dan_the_fisher]

1 hour ago, kickerfish1 said:

If I had to fish with one rod, one reel, and one bait for the rest of my life I would probably look for a new hobby. Too many fun rods, reels and presentations to be confined to just one.

I could still do it, but I would have a hard time confining myself to one rod/bait per hour of fishing. I couldn't even imagine forever 

[MIbassyaker]

On my way out of the house to run some where, I'll occasionally just grab a rod with a lure tied on, and find some water on the way back home to fish for a half-hour or an hour from the bank. The setup I have almost always used for this is a 6' M or ML spinning rod with 8lb trilene, and a small plastic body on a head of some kind, such as a grub on a round jighead, a 4" worm on a slider head, or most recently as of last summer, a ned rig. If I had to pick something to use the rest of my life, it would be something like that.

I have to laugh at kickerfish's comment about finding a new hobby!  Not me. I'd roll with it -- one rod, one line, one lure...it would be just like I was 10 again. Just be sure to give me a lifetime supply of the same bait in case I break off.

[PitchinJigz]

18 hours ago, K_Mac said:

The problem with these types of threads is there is no one size fits all answer.

I don't see that as a problem. I think the intention is entertainment, to see what others enjoy using.

[ThatFishin'Guy]

Dobyns 705CB 
Shimano Citica
30lb 832 
Bandit Squarebill in Rootbeer

[K_Mac]

39 minutes ago, PitchinJigz said:

I don't see that as a problem. I think the intention is entertainment, to see what others enjoy using.

You are right. Carry on.

[DogBone_384]

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