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Bass Fishing: You can only have 4 rods in the boat

Discussion in 'Boating & Fishing' started by TravelinLight, Aug 18, 2016.

  1. Aug 18, 2016 at 9:11 AM
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    TravelinLight

    TravelinLight [OP] Well-Known Member

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    If you can only have 4 rods with you in the boat bass fishing any given day in any Alabama stock pond, lake, or river, what are they and what do you use each for?

    Ex: 6'6 Medium Heavy, fast taper, baitcaster with 7:1:1 spoiled up with 12lb mono. Used for fishing plastics etc

    Ideally I need those four rods to cover plastics, jigs, top water, frogs, crank Baits, swimbaits, and spinnerbaits.

    *important to say what type of line and what pound. I don't mind having different types of line on each reel but I want to cover all of those baits between the four rods without having to change line while out in the boat.
     
  2. Aug 18, 2016 at 9:11 AM
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    TravelinLight

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    Largemouth bass ^^
     
  3. Aug 25, 2016 at 2:01 PM
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    OK I'll give it a try.
    6'9" MH baitcaster, 7:1:1, 15lb mono, spinnerbaits, can be used for top water.
    7'0 MH baitcaster, 6:3:1, 12lb flouro, jigs, T-rigged worms, swimbaits.
    7'0 M Spinning, 20lb braid with 8lb flouro leader, wacky rig, drop shot, lighter lures
    7'3 H or MH with fast tip, 7:1:1, 50 to 65lb braid, frogs or flipping.
     
  4. Sep 21, 2016 at 3:44 PM
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    I'll use a plastic worm or live lizard on any thing. When that don't work I park at the closest island and drink beer. Oh and I only have bait casters ftw
     
  5. Oct 7, 2017 at 8:46 AM
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    Fishing is a very big part of my life. I have a YouTube channel LupoOnTheLake if you wanted to watch some videos. I am also a Collegiate tournament angler, and I also fish apt of local tournaments in north Alabama. If you have any questions feel free to ask.
    Thanks

    Baitcasting 7’ medheavy fast with a 7:5:1 reel spooled with 30lb braid and a 16lb flourocarbon leader. I can do anything with that set up. But I primarily use it for jigs, shaky heads, and anything else that isn’t going to be moving.
    Baitcasting 7’ medheavy mod-fast with a 6:3:1 reel spooled with 16lb flourocarbon. This rod I would throw traction baits on. Anything from a spinnerbait/chatterbait (unless I’m fishing grass) to crankbaits, swimjigs, swimbaits, and so on.
    Baitcasting 7’ medheavy mod-fast with a 7:5:1 spooled with 12lb mono. This is the rod that I throw all of my topwater on bc mono floats. I will be putting 30lb/20lb braid on this set up soon bc it casts so much better than strait mono. I will still have mono on the set up but I will be using it as a leader.
    Baitcasting 7’6” heavy fast with a 7:5:1 spooled with straight 65lb braid. Frog, flipping, swimbaits, swimjigs. This is the set up that I would bring anywhere as a “meat stick”. It still has a nice tip to detect the bite but a back bone to pull the fish out of pretty much any cover.
     
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