My Favorite Rod

[Bud Kennedy]

I am  blessed to have quite a good selection of quality rods.  It is kind of interesting to discover that my favorite rod (today) is going against the grain with regards to most modern rods.  My favorite rod is a LSCR.  I don't know what blank it is built on but I do know that it has a nice solid backbone and a fast tip.  The real deal is that the rod is short by today's standards.  This rod is 6'6" and has a carbon fiber grip and an Alps reel seat and I believe the guides are Torte and also micro sized.

Simply put this rod is short as per my request.  I wanted something to easily fit on the front deck and the fact that I am a short person it makes it easier for me to handle.  Anyway, this rod was actually exiled to my rod rack due to some problems that I was having with backlashes.  It really was not the rod's fault but it took the blame until I finally paired it with on of my other favorite things a Daiwa SVTW103HS reel.  Now the performance partnership has been made and it is amazing. 

I don't mean to imply that my other rods are not good because they are.  My 7' LSCR is fantastic and extremely sensitive and by Dobyns rods are also great performers and all of these products I believe have the advantage of the Daiwa reels.  The whole deal is this combo just seems to fit for me and although it is not from today's mold it sure gets the job done. 

To some it might not make sense that this is my favorite but it is.  We each have that one certain rod or combo that is just right for our needs and regardless of who makes it or how much it costs it is my favorite although it might not work for your specific needs.

Do you have a favorite rod or combo.  Let us hear about it.

[Lipripper]

I'm just now starting to use my LSCR frog rod and have only used it a few time but can tell I'm going ot like it a lot. Y'all might think I'm strange but my favorite rod and I use it more than any other of my rods is my 4' UL Ugly Stick I have a Browning spinning reel on it with 20 lb power pro on it and use it for Bass fishing as well as Crappie fishing. When I'm Crappie fishing I will switch the reels and put on a Browning spinning reel with 4 lb fire line on it. You can land big fish on a 4' UL Ugly Stick if you have it set up right and know how to play them. 

[loomisguy]

Yep, Mine is a older Denali N2 843 actually it was called the noirwood series back then.
It looks like the back end of hard times but I wouldn't trade it for a new NRX.
Spinnerbaits,buzzbaits , Full size spooks and vixens even pitching Dixie jets in boat stalls.Just a great all purpose rod that fits me.
I have a E model Citica on it usually with co poly.

[Capt. BassinLou]

My two favorites are: My LSCR PB 7'6" H and and my Dobyns Champion 734.

[Terry G]

I know this is not for everyone but my 6' LSCR with a Lews Tournament Lite reel does everything
I thought it would do only better.

[SteveTX]

Depending on what I am fishing my favorite changes. Right now I will say these two combinations have been in my hands the most.
Dobyns DX 784C with my 8.3:1 Lew's TPG1XH Tournament Pro G
or
Dobyns SSM735C with my 8.0:1 Lew's SD1XH SuperDuty

[cport]

My workhorse rod is my Omen black 2, but my fave is my mojo bass 7'4" MH. It is sweet, very light, ultra sensitive.

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[Oldfart9999]

mine changes with the season, right now it's a 7 foot medium action white CARBONLITE rod from BPS with a PROLITE  reel from BPS. It's carrying 15 lb POWER PRO and a 1/4 ounce Poison Tail jig, olive and tan with a ZOOM Super Chunk Jr. in green pumpkin dipped in chartreuse dye. Works great as a pitching or casting rig.
Rodney 

[Smalls]

The 2 rods that get the most use are my Falcon Jason Christie (6'8, med heavy, med fast) and my Powell Mag Heavy (7'7, mag med heavy, extra fast)

The Falcon is great for reaction baits with a very nice parabolic bend to it. Keeps em pinned very well. The tip is fast enough to throw even 1/4 oz wakebaits, though. Also handles some small glide baits at just over 3/4 oz, and it doesn't feel like I'm gonna crack it. I'm a shorter guy, and I fish from the bank, so it's length is perfect for me.

The Powell is amazing. It handles 3/8 football jigs to pretty much everything else I've thrown with it. I don't have much to punch around here, nor do I throw giant swimbaits, so I don't have much tackle over an ounce. But it's easily launched everything I've asked it to. The sensitivity is ridiculous, I feel everything. Frog fishing is a dream, I have more backbone than i'll ever need. It just plain horses em out. I sometimes have to remember to be gentle with the hookset on smaller jigs, because I straightened out a hook and had  a 1 lb bass come flying at me last week. It's long... I'm not tall... it's been an experience learning how to pitch from shore with it, but that's more user than rod.

[Pferox]

All my rods are my favorites, but the one that I am attached to the most is my "Frankenrod".

I found it on the shoreline at the Baytown Nature Center next to a garbage can.  It was a 7ft MH ugly stick that had seen much better days. All but one of the guides had succumbed to the salt water, and the grip looked like somebody's dog used for a teething stick.  The seat looked fine, and the blank surprisingly, didn't have a one noticeable nick or blemish on it.

Any time I break a rod, I would strip the guides off and keep them for emergency repairs.  I had enough of them in the right sizes to replace all the guides on the rod, granted none of them matched, but they did fit right.  I wrapped them with different colors, just because.

I had a tennis rod handle wrap in my parts box and used it to recover the damaged grip and although it was thicker had a fantastic feel to it.  I match it with either a 4000 or 5000 Penn Pursuit reel and 20 lb line, braid or mono at my whim of the time. 

It has brought in every species of fish that I catch around here, from 1 inch gaff-top sail-cats to a 4 foot shark.  I have done everything wrong with that rod at times betting on whether or not it will snap, and it is still going strong.