My favorite tackle

[Ray]

Here is what I usually use on every fishing trip I go on:

5 foot ultra lite rod

Spinning reel- Rhino brand is my Favorite

4-6 pound line- Trileene or spider wire is my favorite

1/16-1/8 ounce rooster tail spinners (I have too many colors to list)

1/16 ounce rapala jerk bait- I preffer red or blue

size 8 hooks with a small 1/32-1/16 ounce weight or a bobber for live bait.

Waders

Fishing Vest- White Water are my favorite vests

Hat/Glasses- I like the Bass Pro brands the most

Small fish net- Bass pro brands, I like the kinds you can attach to your vest or waders so you don't have to carry it all the time.

Mister Twister Plastic worms- black, orange, green, white, brown, yellow, tan, and gray.

well that's it, I usually fish from the shore, but in rivers, I use my waders, but I use my vest all the time when I fish, I just find it much easier than having to carry a big tackle box with me all the time, when I can just unzip a pocket and get out a lure.

[winlyn]

Worms! Plastic worms. Oil colored with blue metal-flake. Caroline rigged with 1/8 oz slip weight. #3 hook.
17 lb test line on bait casting reel. Short medium rod to keep it out of the bushes and trees. This is what I fish most of the time.

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[Ray]

wow, you like to use heavy tackle, I always use light tackle, unless if I'm ocean fishing, or cat fishing, I'll use a heavy ugly stick rod, with a large spinning reel with 80 pound line, 2 ounce weight, and octopus hooks for ocean fishing or a trouble hook for catfish.

I try to make sure I never loose fish when I'm trying to get big ones.

[showmebob]

I prefer to use what ever catches the fish! I recently started using medium action rods with baitcasting reels. I am learning techniques for this tackle and lures and as of yet haven't had much luck. I purchased a new light action Berkley Cherry Wood rod and Abu Garcia 102c reel and have caught my biggest fish this year with this set up. Funny, I started using medium action rods because I was not able to set the hook good enough with the light stuff I fished with for years. My biggest bass this year I would have lost if I was using heavy tackle as it was just barely hooked! You just never know!
Bob

[Ray]

I just got back from pomme last week, and I have a huge tip for everyone, if you have a fly rod, use it!

Nothing was working as well as a fly rod did, I was fishing in the coves with a black bodied, white legged spider fly, it was about 1 inch long and about 1/3 inch wide, I was working it kinda fist through brush piles and big structures, but I worked it slow in deep, open water.

All the fish I caught last weekend were on a fly rod, all I caught with worms was a turtle.

[slabmaster]

i like 7' heavy action rods for most bass fishing. i do alot of nite bass fishing with big creature baits. for catfish i like surf rods for flats and blues. for channel cats i like my 7' ugly stick catfish rods wwith ambassador 6000 reels. for panfish i like a 7' medium lite action fast taper spinning rod with shimano open face reels. for fly fishing i use a 7-6' 3 wt i use on small creeks like roaring river sp. i haave a 9' 4 wt i use on biger rivers "tanycomo" aand i use a 9' 6wt on big rivers when the water is running. saltwater fly fishing i use a 10' 8 wt this is also a good striper rod. all level wind bass reels are diawa. all spinning reels are shimano. allcrappie reels are zebco 33. all my catfish reels are abu garcia.