Just for fun-What’s your favourite rod/reel setup?

[mat trevors]

I was talking to another angler I had just met the other day & the topic of favourite gear came up. It was a fun & interesting chat, to say the least, so I figure the fun can be shared here.

So…What’s your favourite rod & reel setup?

As in, your go-to, the one you dream of casting & fighting fish on? If you were a Jedi, it’d be your Lightsaber…

I’ll go first:

Redington CPX 8wt with Lamson-Waterworks Litespeed 3.5

(BUT it might soon be knocked off the throne by my TFO Axiom 7wt & Tibor Back Country, which hasn’t been spooled up yet 🙂 )

Like I said, just for fun, let’s see what people have to say!

[B.R. Snow]

I have a Scott S4 9′ 4wt with a red abel 4n on it, the set up is a fish catching machine, something about a red reel! BR

[Rob Snowhite]

I’ve been fishing my Orvis Helios 8wt switch w/ battenkilled large arbor recently. Tossing a Rio Outbound on it. Handles just about all my situations.

I want to start fishing my Orvis ‘Henry’s Fork’ more often now but its too soft for where I fish. It was my favorite trout rod. I want to have another one built by the Orvis rod shop as a back up to keep in a bunker.

[anonymous]

Scott A3 9×5 with a English made Orvis Battenkill.  The Scott A series reminds me of the three bears.  The S is too fast, the G is too slow, but the A…its just right! As for the reel…it hangs there and does its job.  

I should note i like the A4s at least as much but i dont have the history with them yet…

[Bob Riggins]

Two setups actually.
Saltwater a Batson Rainshadow RX8+ 9′, 8wt with a Lamson Litespeed 3.5 and SA Mastery Redfish line.

[Karlin Bilcher]

Sage SLT 9ft 4wt
Lamson Lightspeed 2
Rio Gold

So nice to fish.  My go-to dry fly and light trout nymphing set up.  

Sage XiII 9ft 8wt
Lamson Lightspeed 3.5
Rio Grand 9wt

Something about the action / taper / speed whatever you want to call it  of this rod.  Beefy yet delicate.  Can throw boomers or fish in close.  Again, so fun to fish.  

[Adam McDowell]

for trout a

Sage 489 SPL with a red galvan torque 4 reel, sharkskin wf4 and a ferruled leader.

for saltwater im really liking my 7wt BVK with an everglades

[Chris Beech]

How can you pick just one?

Best Regards,

Beechy

[mat trevors]

How can you pick just one?

Good point. It’s tough, especially when you switch from small streams to salt & such…

It seems Scott rods & Lamson reels are leading the way so far…

I’ve never fished a Scott rod & kinda want to keep it that way, for my bank account’s sake 🙂

[anonymous]

Man…you have got to get on that shit!

[B.R. Snow]

How can you pick just one?

Good point. It’s tough, especially when you switch from small streams to salt & such…

It seems Scott rods & Lamson reels are leading the way so far…

I’ve never fished a Scott rod & kinda want to keep it that way, for my bank account’s sake 🙂

The A4 fishes great and doesn’t cost a fortune. BR

[Michael Exl]

Two-handed:

Sage TCX 7119-4 with a Sage 6010 reel. Loaded up with a Rio Scandi Short #7 with a selection of Rio Spey VersiLeaders. Bring on the chrome!!!

Single Hand:

Sage One 691-4 with Tibor Light Back Country CL and a 6wt. Rio Outbound Short.

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