How Many Rods?

[CroakHunter]

8'0 heavy-65lb braid- grass, pitching, punching

7'6 medium-10lb mono- <10ft cranks

7'5 mh-12 fluoro-lipless, >10ft cranks

7'4 Heavy-17lb fluoro- c-rig, Football jig, swing head

3X 7'3 heavy-20lb fluoro-jig, pitching, and big worm Texas rig (7/0 hook).

2X 7'0 mh- 17lb fluoro-spinnerbaits, swimjig, chattebaits, swimbaits

7'0 heavy-50lb braid-frogs buzzbait

7'medium-12lb fluoro-senkos, shakey head, finesse jig

7'medium- 12lb fluoro-dropshot, neko rig

 

All casting rods. And if I Feel like bringing out the fairy wands I have 2 6'9 spinning rods just for fun. 

[papajoe222]

Ladies and Gentlemen! We have a winner!

But I Lhave to ask you CroakHunter, With there being little to no room on your deck, where do you stand????

[CroakHunter]

1 hour ago, papajoe222 said:

Ladies and Gentlemen! We have a winner!

But I Lhave to ask you CroakHunter, With there being little to no room on your deck, where do you stand????

I fish out of a 16' jon boat with a small 4x4 platform in the front. My rods aren't technically "on the deck" they are leaned on the deck with the butt of the rods on the bottom of the boat. I usually lean against a small pedestal seat or just stand on the platform. Lucky enough for me my friend I fish with runs the tiller handled gas motor and trolling motor so all I have to do is fish lol. I got it made. 

[Bluebasser86]

Ideally, I'll have 2-4 rods out, because that means I'm dialed in, but usually it's more like 10. Our lakes don't have big schools of bass or good offshore structure to fish, so most of my fishing is comprised of junk fishing and having to be prepared for whatever I may encounter. 

[EGbassing]

My entire arsenal is one baitcaster, although when I get home from the beach I'm buying my first spinning combo. Shimano Clarus + Pflueger President XT.  

[Primus]

It varies depending on time of the year , somewhere around 20 combos. 

[Fishingmickey]

    Since I kayak fish and carry fifteen combos. I probably need a intervention. Fishing a Hobie PA14, Nine rods on the milk crate, four rod holder Engel cooler and two in the horizontal storage on the Hobie. Yes I agree it is overkill

Fishingmickey

[Way north bass guy]

I usually have about 18 rods in the box, about a 50/50 mix of spinning/casting, but usually anywhere from 2-8 rods on the deck. It all depends on the lake and species I’m after, there’s literally hundreds of lakes within an hour of my house and pretty much any type of water you could ask for, so every day is a new adventure that calls for completely different techniques from the day before.  

[Quarry Man]

somewhere between 2 and three...hundred rods are usually on the deck of my 50' bass boat with a 900 HP engine.

 

All jokes aside, I have these rods in my 14' hull on tournament day:

*The gear in blue I already own and the gear in red i plan to buy soon...*

 

Finesse

7’4” L Dobyns Champion Extreme

2500 Shimano Stradic Ci4+

10 lb braid / 6 lb floro

 

Drop Shot

7’2” ML 

3000 Shimano Stradic Ci4+

10 lb braid / 6 lb floro

 

Skipping

6’7” M 

3000 Shimano Stradic Ci4+

30 lb braid / 12 lb floro

 

Skipping

6’10” M Lew’s Hank Parker

3500 Okuma Stratus V

15 lb braid / 12 lb floro

 

Swimbait

7’0” M Cabela’s Tournament ZX

2500 Cabela’s Tournament ZX

12 lb braid / 10 lb floro

 

BFS

6’7” M 

8.2:1 Shimano Scorpion 71

10 lb braid / 8 lb floro

 

Topwater/Crankbait

7’1” M Cabela’s Tournament ZX

6.3:1 Cabela’s Arachnid

10 lb mono

 

All Purpose Casting

6’6” MH Falcon Bucoo Micro

7.2:1 Shimano Castias

12 lb Seaguar Invisx

 

Spinnerbait/Chatterbait

7'0” MH Falcon Bucoo Micro

7.3:1 Quantum Smoke PT

30 lb braid

 

All Purpose Reaction Bait

Cousin’s Tackle IM8 7’0”MH

6.3:1 Shimano Scorpion 201 

17 lb Seaguar Abrazx

 

All Purpose Bottom Contact

7’3” MH

7.3:1 Daiwa Tatula CT

17 lb Seaguar Abrazx

 

Frog

7’3” MH

7.3:1 Daiwa Zillion TWS

50 lb braid

 

Flipping

7.2:1 Shimano Aldebaran

7’6” H Dobyns Savvy Micro

50 lb braid / 20 lb floro

 

Extra

6’6” MH Falcon Bucoo Micro

7’0” XH Carrot Stix Wild Wild Black

[Ariffy]

I'm a 1 rod 1 reel type of guy 

Revo S-hs gen 4 with abu garcia veritas gen 3 6'9 2 piece 

 

[new2BC4bass]

My boat doesn't have a deck.  This is the 4th year it hasn't been used.  I fish with relation in a 14 foot dinghy when I visit Florida.  No deck on it either. 

 

I have 2 rods when there that always have the same type lure on them...a spinnerbait and a weightless 10" ribbontail.  One rod often has an F-11 Rapala.  One a crankbait.  I sent a frog rod down this year.  Carried it, but weather was too cold for it to be of any use.  Maybe next year.

[MIbassyaker]

I bring 5 in the kayak unless I'm doing a river float, in which case I'll bring 2 or 3. But which rods I bring depends entirely on which body of water I'm at, which may be any one of a variety of small natural lakes, impoundments, backwaters, bayous, gravel pits, and river sections that can be very different from each other in habitat, depth, cover, etc.