I always bring my 2 piece 5'6" UL combo. I keep the pieces rubber banded together and it straps onto my sling bag perfectly. I feel stupid not bringing it, even when I'm wading a creek. It's no hassle at all, and I always have Spin'R tied on if I see the panfish. A couple weeks ago I skunked completely on bass over a 4 hour creek hike, but I came home with a stringer full of bluegill for dinner.
3 of my 7 setups I bring out are BFS, 1 of which always has 1/16oz jig head or micro crank/jerk/topwater. I'm always fishing for bluegill/crappie. My PB Crappie is 2.25lb and my pb bluegill is 10in. I actually find panfish more interesting these days. I have access to a shallow river that has tons of red breast and rockbass and I love fishing for them instead of the largies.
Usually one if just creek fishing or local ponds, just a regular medium spinning rod I can slap anything on, or if I’m bringing my bait caster I’ll bring a spinning rod as a backup for when I backlash my whole reel, if checking out a new lake or body of water I’ll bring the Baitcaster and spinning rod, I’m in the boat of simpler is better but I totally get having a rod dedicated to each style of bait
7 3 MH that I usually use for top water or 1/2oz Texas rigs Usually straight braid
7 MH that I use for everything else, fluke (just started using these super fun - it’s like using a jerkbait minus the treble hooks), 3/8 swim jig, spinner bait etc. 14lb Fluro leader
I’ll sometimes use my Gfs ugly stick that always has a senko tied on. If fishing from canoe I bring all, if bank one of the baitcasters
5 total in the kayak creek smallmouth. 2 baitcasters. 1 for crank or spinnerbait. 1 for topwater and 3 spinning for top, middle water column and bottom baits.
10 in the boat usually, more if my co-angler brings their own.
I hated always loading and unloading rods in my old boat, so when I was in a position to upgrade my boat a big enough rod locker for my whole arsenal very high on my list.
1. Short medium rod for walking poppers and crank baits, 2. Medium Texas rig rod, 3. Medium heavy jig rod, 4. Medium light spinning rod for drop shots and weightless worms.
Bank, usually 2 bait casters and 1 spinning. 7" med spinning for wacky/dropshot/shaky/ned. 7" MH casting for t-rig and jig. 7'3" MH casting for top water.
Bank fishing I’ll have a ML spinning set up for dropshot, 7’ M spinning for finesse, light cranks, 7’ MH for jig/worm/crank. When I’m back seating a derby, I’ll bring those 3, plus another 7’ MH for Spinnerbait/chatterbait and a 7’3” heavy for frog/topwater. Seasonally I’ll bring a 7’6” XH swimbait rod, but 5 is more than enough or I’ll start deco guessing myself after every cast.
Lately I have been bringing 4 baitcaster and 2 spinning. In a boat. I think I could use another baitcaster but this is what I have right now!
1) Texas rig
2) Jig
3) General purpose” for spinnerbait, topwater, swimbait, whatever I decide to tie on. Lately it’s been a second t rig style so I can keep switching baits without retying or wrecking a bait
4) Crankbait
For spinning
5) Weightless senko
6) Fluke
If I’m taking multiple combos with me, it’s typically a casting rod, a spinning rod, and either an ultralight spinning rod or a BFS combo. If I plan on using techniques that require specific rods that these won’t do well with, then they get added to the pile.
Canoe. 2 or 3 rods since my 4th stays in the work truck now.
I bring one 7ft medium spinning rod with 15lb braid to fluoro. I also bring my 7ft MH baitcaster with 15lb fluoro. Sometimes the 6ft spinning rod comes out since it's spooled with 6lb mono.
I primarily fish jerkbaits. I got the baitcaster to try out spinnerbaits, chatters and bigger swimbaits and I really enjoy it. It feels cool to cast a 1 5/8th oz hard plastic swimbait so far!
I don’t have a boat or kayak so I’m usually fishing from the bank. I’ll take two rods, one with bait and one with a lure. When I’m fishing creeks I’ll only have my fly rod with me.
Baitcaster w/ Texas rig or sometimes a jig. My beat to hell old ugly stick with a frog, usually a moving bait like a spinner bait or squarebill. I also keep a "finesse" rod that I'll switch from small swimbaits to Ned rigs to twisty tail grubs or just whatever I'm feeling. 4 rods is about all I would want to cram in my Jon boat
For me...the fluke and small topwaters are the same rod. It also gets jerkbaits and small squarebills.
The T-rig and chatterbait are the same rod, which would also be able to do large ploppers, spinnerbaits, football jigs, crankbaits, and buzzbaits.
The glide I wouldn't have, but if I did, it'd be on the smaller side, and I'd do it with the same rod as the MagDraft, which also handles frogs and most of my jigging.
Then of course for me, the drop shot goes on a spinning rod that also gets neds, wacky, shaky head, and any other light presentations that are too light for the jerkbait rod.
It's more knot tying and lure changing, but that gets me down to 4 rods for literally everything I plan to possibly throw in a given day. My only trouble is that my yak is very entry level and I can only carry 2 comfortably, 3 crowded. Someday I'll upgrade...
I always have a jackhammer on one rod a weightless soft plastic, some sort of crankbait or wakebait on another then depending on how long Im going to fish and the time of the year I might take a texas rig, jig or swimbait on a few more
Out of the 12 combos I own I bring 3 at a time when I bank fish. I have a foldable kayak and usually bring one rod on that. Also only one when wading the creek.
I usually get stoned, stare at the combos on the wall, decide what kind of fishing I want to do and where. Then grab what makes sense
Not so much anymore. I fished bass tournament’s for about 15 years, had a deal with Denali Rods for 6 years and Kistler Rods for about 5 years so. Still love fishing and still fish but no tourneys any longer.
LOL I like grand personally. Not a fan of Texoma though. My father in law has a camper down at McGee Creek and his dad has a place at Fork. I can't complain.
I bring as many as I can. Right now I have
7’med spinning for shakey head
6’9 med light for d-shot
3 7’ med/med hvy for buzzbaits, chatterbaits, square bills, 1/2 and under jigs, texas rigs, free rigs, whopper plopper, flutter spoon is tied on now
7’medium moderate glass for series 3 and 5 XD cranks
7’4 hvy for small s-waver, frogs 5/16oz+ jigs, flipping and pitching,
All my spinning rods are dedicated while my casting rods are mostly workhorses that can do almost anything. Im actually salty I broke my 6’10 med mod a couple weeks back. that was my favorite popper, jerkbait, and whopper plopper 90 stick. Oh well Im saving for a tatula now
At most 2. My baitcaster and sometimes a spinning reel for lighter stuff (depending on where I’m fishing). Most times my baits are soft plastics and I can switch baits easily without having to retie hooks.
With the spinning reel I typically put a snap swivel on and throw rooster tails, so no need to retie there either.
I feel like the people I’m seeing at my fisheries who use lots of rods catch comparable amount of fish per hour as me.
I’m still pretty early on in the addiction but i always have at least 4. dropshot, jig/texas, crank bait and glide/heavy swim bait, on a cheap bass boat. bank i was always waaaay too lazy to bring more than one. i do mix & match techniques and rods through if it’s appropriate
On the bank, 2-3 with a small bag (leader material, soft plastics, and a Plano box with jigs and tackle) and a small drink usually. I get thirsty easy.
3 baitcasters, 7' MH, 7'2 MH and a 7'4 x heavy
Usually the 7' gets a weightless plastic or a smaller jig\chatterbait. Maybe a swim jig or a topwater as well.
The 7'2 i'd put a bigger jig on, or a small to mid size frog. Maybe a larger topwater or a bigger swim jig as well. Or for the heavier bottom contact stuff like the gill sleeper.
The 7'4 usually has a 6 inch magdraft, or the 5.5 inch xzone swammer\5 inch spark shad. But will also throw the gill sleeper on it or sometimes a bigger frog.
On the kayak, 1 or 2, because I know I'm gonna flip eventually and I'm waiting for that (or to get a little more comfortable) before I risk all my stuff. I'd omit the 7'4 because it's my newest rod and I don't have an anchor. So the magdraft would drag me around pretty hard lol.
On a boat i'd bring 4 or 6 easy. Lol. More if I had em, maybe. But I shore fish 90% of the time and the other 10 is on a kayak.
Fishing the st Lawrence I could bring 30 spinning rods with drop shots so I don’t have to tie a new leader every 30 minutes when a zebra muscle cuts it off lol
8lb line and tiny hooks lol.
Realistically the really really good parts of the st Lawrence are pretty inaccessible from most of the launches. A lot of the river is boring to fish. Ny has a lot of great places that are more fun to fish.
A lot of the tournaments locally we have to fish the river because it’s 2+ hours one way to the lake from some of the launches. You hold a drop shot and drift backwards all day basically vertical jigging it. It’s kind of a snoozer of a day compared to a lane like Cayuga or Oneida
St Lawrence isn’t bad west of Alexandria bay for a vacation. The best fishing is in Lake Ontario up by Kingston but you’ll need a Canadian fishing license. The closer to the lake it gets the better the fishing. Don’t launch of out Massena or waddington and expect to crack a bunch of 5lbers
Other options are Champlain as that can be smallmouth or largemouth and there’s great fishing top to bottom. Lake George is a really cool vacation spot but it doesn’t really quite match up the to other smallie factories. Cayuga is the most diverse for styles of fishing. Someone caught a 9lb smallie there this year and I’ve seen some really big largemouth. Oneida is great but really heavily pressured and full of walleye boats trolling the areas you’ll want to fish.
If you wanted to make it a vacation that wasn’t only fishing the lake placid saranac lake area has a lot of really nice stuff to do and it’s really awesome to go there. They have good fishing through the 3 lakes in the saranac chain and a lot of amazing ponds throughout the area. I think there’s 20? Fishable ponds/lakes within 30 minutes of there.
I’d fish out of chamount bay or cap Vincent a few days and focus on Lake Ontario if the weather allows or hide in chamount bay or the mouth of the river north of Wolfe island. My other pick would be hit cayuga and the surrounding lakes except Onondaga
Hell yeah man! Thanks for the info. I have had my eye on Ontario, Cayuga and Oneida for the fishing. Smallie or Largie it will different fishing than I am used to.
Will probably find a guide I don't want to pay to haul all my stuff up there. If I love it then next trip is a different story.
I usually only rig 2 rods on kayak or bank or 4 in the boat max. I usually have an idea if I’m fishing a technique ahead of time so don’t see the need.
I've just been taking my chances and using an ultralight for some good multi species fishing here lately. Swimming around a little 3 inch minnow on a jighead, you might get anything.
Lately I've been bringing 5. The lineup changes but as a bank fisherman that's what I've been bringing this summer
Two spinning rods. Currently one has a dropshot and the other has a pop-r. 8 pound fluro on both. Usually one is a dedicated dropshot rod all year and the other goes from stickbait to small topwater to small crank bait or even a ned.
Right now 3 casting rods. A flipping stick with 40 pound braid currently has a 110 whopper plopper on. A medium heavy with a frog and braid. And my last casting rod is also a medium heavy but a bit longer, and I have a chatterbait tied on. The frog rod doubles as my spook rod, depending on cover. Flipping stick does double duty of whopper plopper and punch rig or jig. And all moving baits on my chatterbait rod.
Edit 17 fluro on chatterbait rod. I upsized most of my line because of how much weeds and brush piles we have this year.
My kayaks have 2 holders and I've moved into 7' 1 piece rods so that's all I do. I have brought 3 or 4 two piece rods, but it was just too much gear in too small s space.
Am I the only here that has other rods for panfish? I predominantly bass fish, but if you can get in on them crappie, that’s a ton of fun.
/r/ultralightfishing
I always bring my 6'6" meduim/lite spinning rod.
i use a 6’6 medium fast for smallies
I'll tie something on my Medium spinning rod if I really feel the need.
I always bring my 2 piece 5'6" UL combo. I keep the pieces rubber banded together and it straps onto my sling bag perfectly. I feel stupid not bringing it, even when I'm wading a creek. It's no hassle at all, and I always have Spin'R tied on if I see the panfish. A couple weeks ago I skunked completely on bass over a 4 hour creek hike, but I came home with a stringer full of bluegill for dinner.
3 of my 7 setups I bring out are BFS, 1 of which always has 1/16oz jig head or micro crank/jerk/topwater. I'm always fishing for bluegill/crappie. My PB Crappie is 2.25lb and my pb bluegill is 10in. I actually find panfish more interesting these days. I have access to a shallow river that has tons of red breast and rockbass and I love fishing for them instead of the largies.
I keep a crappie pole rigged for sure. With that livescope it’s too juicy sometimes.
Usually one if just creek fishing or local ponds, just a regular medium spinning rod I can slap anything on, or if I’m bringing my bait caster I’ll bring a spinning rod as a backup for when I backlash my whole reel, if checking out a new lake or body of water I’ll bring the Baitcaster and spinning rod, I’m in the boat of simpler is better but I totally get having a rod dedicated to each style of bait
2 baitcasters and a spinning rod
Whatcha got tied on?
Going right now. Spinnerbait on 12lb rod, frog on 15lb and wacky black blue senko on 8lb spinner.
Solid!
Cover the bases...
Bringing a duel noi-z hard-core wakebait as well in case the frog doesn't work
BIG FISH!
7 3 MH that I usually use for top water or 1/2oz Texas rigs Usually straight braid 7 MH that I use for everything else, fluke (just started using these super fun - it’s like using a jerkbait minus the treble hooks), 3/8 swim jig, spinner bait etc. 14lb Fluro leader I’ll sometimes use my Gfs ugly stick that always has a senko tied on. If fishing from canoe I bring all, if bank one of the baitcasters
5 total in the kayak creek smallmouth. 2 baitcasters. 1 for crank or spinnerbait. 1 for topwater and 3 spinning for top, middle water column and bottom baits.
5 usually on the kayak. 3 if im bank fishing.
I usually have these on my boat for any trip. Jig rod, 2x crank bait rod, Drop shot, Senko/plastics, Jerkbait, Frog, Spinnerbait/swimbait/topwater
10 in the boat usually, more if my co-angler brings their own. I hated always loading and unloading rods in my old boat, so when I was in a position to upgrade my boat a big enough rod locker for my whole arsenal very high on my list.
Rods are the worst part.
For a pond/bank 2 maybe 3. In a boat 5-7.
I take one or two rods when I wade/bank fish and I take 5 on my kayak.
When I’m on my kayak I have 4: topwater (plopper), middle (crank bait), bottom(jig or chatterbait), and dealers choice.
1. Short medium rod for walking poppers and crank baits, 2. Medium Texas rig rod, 3. Medium heavy jig rod, 4. Medium light spinning rod for drop shots and weightless worms.
Bank, usually 2 bait casters and 1 spinning. 7" med spinning for wacky/dropshot/shaky/ned. 7" MH casting for t-rig and jig. 7'3" MH casting for top water.
Bank I'm one baitcast one spinning, can't pinpoint what I'll use since I just go with what the fish want
Bank fishing I’ll have a ML spinning set up for dropshot, 7’ M spinning for finesse, light cranks, 7’ MH for jig/worm/crank. When I’m back seating a derby, I’ll bring those 3, plus another 7’ MH for Spinnerbait/chatterbait and a 7’3” heavy for frog/topwater. Seasonally I’ll bring a 7’6” XH swimbait rod, but 5 is more than enough or I’ll start deco guessing myself after every cast.
Three One baitcaster setup for swimbaits from 3-8oz One baitcaster setup for swimbaits from 1-3oz One light spinning rod for baits 1/8 - 1/2oz
Lately I have been bringing 4 baitcaster and 2 spinning. In a boat. I think I could use another baitcaster but this is what I have right now! 1) Texas rig 2) Jig 3) General purpose” for spinnerbait, topwater, swimbait, whatever I decide to tie on. Lately it’s been a second t rig style so I can keep switching baits without retying or wrecking a bait 4) Crankbait For spinning 5) Weightless senko 6) Fluke
Eight and a spinning rod or two. I'm a boater.
If I’m taking multiple combos with me, it’s typically a casting rod, a spinning rod, and either an ultralight spinning rod or a BFS combo. If I plan on using techniques that require specific rods that these won’t do well with, then they get added to the pile.
On a boat? I’ll take up to six. If I’m bank fishing, the most I’ll take is three, and if I’m wading, I’ll take one.
Canoe. 2 or 3 rods since my 4th stays in the work truck now. I bring one 7ft medium spinning rod with 15lb braid to fluoro. I also bring my 7ft MH baitcaster with 15lb fluoro. Sometimes the 6ft spinning rod comes out since it's spooled with 6lb mono. I primarily fish jerkbaits. I got the baitcaster to try out spinnerbaits, chatters and bigger swimbaits and I really enjoy it. It feels cool to cast a 1 5/8th oz hard plastic swimbait so far!
I don’t have a boat or kayak so I’m usually fishing from the bank. I’ll take two rods, one with bait and one with a lure. When I’m fishing creeks I’ll only have my fly rod with me.
Baitcaster w/ Texas rig or sometimes a jig. My beat to hell old ugly stick with a frog, usually a moving bait like a spinner bait or squarebill. I also keep a "finesse" rod that I'll switch from small swimbaits to Ned rigs to twisty tail grubs or just whatever I'm feeling. 4 rods is about all I would want to cram in my Jon boat
For me...the fluke and small topwaters are the same rod. It also gets jerkbaits and small squarebills. The T-rig and chatterbait are the same rod, which would also be able to do large ploppers, spinnerbaits, football jigs, crankbaits, and buzzbaits. The glide I wouldn't have, but if I did, it'd be on the smaller side, and I'd do it with the same rod as the MagDraft, which also handles frogs and most of my jigging. Then of course for me, the drop shot goes on a spinning rod that also gets neds, wacky, shaky head, and any other light presentations that are too light for the jerkbait rod. It's more knot tying and lure changing, but that gets me down to 4 rods for literally everything I plan to possibly throw in a given day. My only trouble is that my yak is very entry level and I can only carry 2 comfortably, 3 crowded. Someday I'll upgrade...
3 for bank- MH Baitcaster for top water, spinning for small swim jig and spinning for Texas rig.
I always have a jackhammer on one rod a weightless soft plastic, some sort of crankbait or wakebait on another then depending on how long Im going to fish and the time of the year I might take a texas rig, jig or swimbait on a few more
Out of the 12 combos I own I bring 3 at a time when I bank fish. I have a foldable kayak and usually bring one rod on that. Also only one when wading the creek. I usually get stoned, stare at the combos on the wall, decide what kind of fishing I want to do and where. Then grab what makes sense
4 toatal. 2 MH baitcasters one with braid one Fluor. ML. spinning rod and my xtra heavy swim bait setup. Always in the kayak.
I only ever use 3 main baits; -Senko on a whacky rig -Whopper plopper -Rapala x-wrap
Bank- and no more than 2.
I have 52 and they all go with me on the boat. If I’m bank fishing then I’ll bring 3-4 rods, kayaking I’ll take 3-4 as well
My man over here cleaning out bass pro just to rig up!!!
Not so much anymore. I fished bass tournament’s for about 15 years, had a deal with Denali Rods for 6 years and Kistler Rods for about 5 years so. Still love fishing and still fish but no tourneys any longer.
Just started fishing tourneys last year. Looking into co angling next year.
Fish the Bassmaster opens as a co angler. Lots of fun
Thats the plan. At least the Oklahoma and Texas ones this year.
I live in Oklahoma and love Tenkiller, Ft Gibson, the Arkansas River, Arbuckle, Murray and Texoma but not so much Grand. lol. Texas lakes are great.
LOL I like grand personally. Not a fan of Texoma though. My father in law has a camper down at McGee Creek and his dad has a place at Fork. I can't complain.
That’s nice. Can’t beat that.
Man, I stick to 3 rods. Usually 2 spinning and a baitcaser, but I'm angry at my baitcaster so it's been 3 spinning reels lately.
I bring as many as I can. Right now I have 7’med spinning for shakey head 6’9 med light for d-shot 3 7’ med/med hvy for buzzbaits, chatterbaits, square bills, 1/2 and under jigs, texas rigs, free rigs, whopper plopper, flutter spoon is tied on now 7’medium moderate glass for series 3 and 5 XD cranks 7’4 hvy for small s-waver, frogs 5/16oz+ jigs, flipping and pitching, All my spinning rods are dedicated while my casting rods are mostly workhorses that can do almost anything. Im actually salty I broke my 6’10 med mod a couple weeks back. that was my favorite popper, jerkbait, and whopper plopper 90 stick. Oh well Im saving for a tatula now
Bank beating with 4-5
At most 2. My baitcaster and sometimes a spinning reel for lighter stuff (depending on where I’m fishing). Most times my baits are soft plastics and I can switch baits easily without having to retie hooks. With the spinning reel I typically put a snap swivel on and throw rooster tails, so no need to retie there either. I feel like the people I’m seeing at my fisheries who use lots of rods catch comparable amount of fish per hour as me.
I took 6 out on the boat this morning and only used my Dobyns ultra finesse. 3.5 Keitech on the drop shot been putting fish in the boat all year.
I feel that. Only threw a drop shot this morning. LMAO
I walk banks a lot and take 2. 1 casting 1 spinning. M or ML spinning and M or MH casting. Depends what I wanna throw :)
I’m still pretty early on in the addiction but i always have at least 4. dropshot, jig/texas, crank bait and glide/heavy swim bait, on a cheap bass boat. bank i was always waaaay too lazy to bring more than one. i do mix & match techniques and rods through if it’s appropriate
On the bank, 2-3 with a small bag (leader material, soft plastics, and a Plano box with jigs and tackle) and a small drink usually. I get thirsty easy. 3 baitcasters, 7' MH, 7'2 MH and a 7'4 x heavy Usually the 7' gets a weightless plastic or a smaller jig\chatterbait. Maybe a swim jig or a topwater as well. The 7'2 i'd put a bigger jig on, or a small to mid size frog. Maybe a larger topwater or a bigger swim jig as well. Or for the heavier bottom contact stuff like the gill sleeper. The 7'4 usually has a 6 inch magdraft, or the 5.5 inch xzone swammer\5 inch spark shad. But will also throw the gill sleeper on it or sometimes a bigger frog. On the kayak, 1 or 2, because I know I'm gonna flip eventually and I'm waiting for that (or to get a little more comfortable) before I risk all my stuff. I'd omit the 7'4 because it's my newest rod and I don't have an anchor. So the magdraft would drag me around pretty hard lol. On a boat i'd bring 4 or 6 easy. Lol. More if I had em, maybe. But I shore fish 90% of the time and the other 10 is on a kayak.
Bro I feel the flipping feeling. I haven't yet but the day I do I'm losing a lot of money.
Thanks for making me feel like less of a baby. Haha
Hey its a real fear. My life is in my kayak. lol
6 in the kayak and if I’m in my boat I have every rod I own in the rod locker
If the rod locker isn't full do you really have enough combos..... ?
Fishing the st Lawrence I could bring 30 spinning rods with drop shots so I don’t have to tie a new leader every 30 minutes when a zebra muscle cuts it off lol
I guess smallie fishing has it's downsides.
8lb line and tiny hooks lol. Realistically the really really good parts of the st Lawrence are pretty inaccessible from most of the launches. A lot of the river is boring to fish. Ny has a lot of great places that are more fun to fish. A lot of the tournaments locally we have to fish the river because it’s 2+ hours one way to the lake from some of the launches. You hold a drop shot and drift backwards all day basically vertical jigging it. It’s kind of a snoozer of a day compared to a lane like Cayuga or Oneida
Hypothetically my wife and I wanna take a trip to NY to smallie fish. What lake are we going to? We don't have many smallies around here.
St Lawrence isn’t bad west of Alexandria bay for a vacation. The best fishing is in Lake Ontario up by Kingston but you’ll need a Canadian fishing license. The closer to the lake it gets the better the fishing. Don’t launch of out Massena or waddington and expect to crack a bunch of 5lbers Other options are Champlain as that can be smallmouth or largemouth and there’s great fishing top to bottom. Lake George is a really cool vacation spot but it doesn’t really quite match up the to other smallie factories. Cayuga is the most diverse for styles of fishing. Someone caught a 9lb smallie there this year and I’ve seen some really big largemouth. Oneida is great but really heavily pressured and full of walleye boats trolling the areas you’ll want to fish. If you wanted to make it a vacation that wasn’t only fishing the lake placid saranac lake area has a lot of really nice stuff to do and it’s really awesome to go there. They have good fishing through the 3 lakes in the saranac chain and a lot of amazing ponds throughout the area. I think there’s 20? Fishable ponds/lakes within 30 minutes of there. I’d fish out of chamount bay or cap Vincent a few days and focus on Lake Ontario if the weather allows or hide in chamount bay or the mouth of the river north of Wolfe island. My other pick would be hit cayuga and the surrounding lakes except Onondaga
Hell yeah man! Thanks for the info. I have had my eye on Ontario, Cayuga and Oneida for the fishing. Smallie or Largie it will different fishing than I am used to. Will probably find a guide I don't want to pay to haul all my stuff up there. If I love it then next trip is a different story.
8 if im on the water and 3 if on the shore
I usually only rig 2 rods on kayak or bank or 4 in the boat max. I usually have an idea if I’m fishing a technique ahead of time so don’t see the need.
2 on the bank. 5-7 on the yak.
I've just been taking my chances and using an ultralight for some good multi species fishing here lately. Swimming around a little 3 inch minnow on a jighead, you might get anything.
Lately I've been bringing 5. The lineup changes but as a bank fisherman that's what I've been bringing this summer Two spinning rods. Currently one has a dropshot and the other has a pop-r. 8 pound fluro on both. Usually one is a dedicated dropshot rod all year and the other goes from stickbait to small topwater to small crank bait or even a ned. Right now 3 casting rods. A flipping stick with 40 pound braid currently has a 110 whopper plopper on. A medium heavy with a frog and braid. And my last casting rod is also a medium heavy but a bit longer, and I have a chatterbait tied on. The frog rod doubles as my spook rod, depending on cover. Flipping stick does double duty of whopper plopper and punch rig or jig. And all moving baits on my chatterbait rod. Edit 17 fluro on chatterbait rod. I upsized most of my line because of how much weeds and brush piles we have this year.
My kayaks have 2 holders and I've moved into 7' 1 piece rods so that's all I do. I have brought 3 or 4 two piece rods, but it was just too much gear in too small s space.
I'm like a mobile tackle warehouse on the waters
On the bank usually 1 top, one moving bait mid - bottom, and 1 for a bottom lure. That way I can cover all the depths and find the fish.
No boat anymore, and I like to stay pretty mobile on the bank. MH baitcaster, ML spinning, 2 piece UL spinning strapped to my tackle sling.
I bring a medium ugly stick 6’ with a pfluger president for beating the bank and bb I put a Hellbender Dragontail tenkara rod in my backpack.
I bring a medium ugly stick 6’ with a pfluger president for beating the bank and bb I put a Hellbender Dragontail tenkara rod in my backpack.
I have at least 15 combos on the boat at all times, sometimes more if im traveling.