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What Was Your First Combo/lure? 2024


fishing user avatarSenko lover reply : 

What was the first rod/reel combo you bought and started out with? What was your first lure?

I started out with a Shakespeare Synergy spin cast combo (bunch of junk!) and bought a small tackle box that had some beetle spins, bobbers, and whatnot. The first lure I caught a fish on was a Cotton Cordell Super Spot, in bright red. I was hooked (groan) for life!

 


fishing user avatarBasshunterJGH reply : 

Ugly stik w/ shimano Sedona and panther martins.:)


fishing user avatarSenko lover reply : 
  On 10/21/2014 at 11:21 PM, BasshunterJGH said:

Ugly stik w/ shimano Sedona and panther martins. :)

 

Can't go wrong with that!


fishing user avatarA-Jay reply : 

My first rod & reel combo was a vintage 1960's Sears Roebuck and Co. Ted Williams II job.

 

Included a 6 1/2 ft Two Piece Cork Handle Rod (it was like a noodle) and the model 240 spincast reel which as I remember, was a kind of putrid brown color. 

 

Gave it to my little brother when I "up graded" - wished I had kept it.

 

My first bass taken on a "Lure" ~ was on the classic Jointed Rebel Minnow

 

A-Jay


fishing user avataraavery2 reply : 

I can't remember for sure but I do remember catching a lot of smaller fish on a Zebco 202 combo and a beetle spin.


fishing user avatarRoadblock reply : 

In 1985 roughly my father bought two 1985 Shimano TX-110Q spinning reels and two Berkley rods. I don't remember what series the rods were but they were the same, one has red eyelet inserts and the other had yellow eyelet inserts though. I think the color difference may have represented the action?

 

My father has since passed and both rods have broken but I do currently have my fathers TX-110Q on a Shakespeare Ugly Stick. It is actually my most used rod for panfish and small large-mouth Bass. Sitting in my boat now waiting for a sunny Michigan fall day! :)

 

I've been meaning to pickup a Berkley 6'6" Lightening Rod just so I could have the Berkley/Shimano combo back I had as I kid.

 

I actually still have my Shimano TX-110Q too but I've lost the crank and spool. If I can track down a crank and spool, it will be my daughters reel next year or so. Going to put that one on a Berkley Lightening Rod too. The Berkley/Shimano combo caught me LOADS of fish growing up, it will for my daughter too! :)

 

I started on worms but I remember a Perch Rapela as being my first lure.

 

I've also own a 2014 Shimano Curado 200I on a 2015 St. Croix Avid X 7'0" Medium-Fast and a Quantum Smoke SL40PTI series spinning reel on some cheap 6'6" Medium-Heavy rod, I can't remember what brand but I know it's an IM8.


fishing user avatarRaul reply : 

My first combo was a fiberglass two piece Shakespeare rod paired to a Shakespeare spinning reel, excuse me if I don´t tell which model cuz I really don´t remember, that was 41 years ago. My first lures were a Mepps Aglia size 2 gold blade in-line spinner, a Mepps Comet size 2 silver blade in-line spinner, 2 Rapala Original Floating minnow size 5 one is silver black back and the other is gold black back. Beleiev it or not I still have them. Oh man I don´t know how many trout I caught with those. Actually I caught my first bass with the silver one.


fishing user avatarnew2BC4bass reply : 

I didn't buy my first combo.  I was 6.  Mitchell 300.  Unknown fiberglass reel.  Probably a worm although we walked the shore picking up leeches and crayfish, so I can't be positive the worm was first.


fishing user avatarxxmurrxx reply : 

Shakespeare rod / reel combo not sure on the model

First lures were hooks / sinkers / mepps spinners

First bass I can remember catching came off a jointed rapala original floater silver / black


fishing user avatarDogBone_384 reply : 

I've got a Shakespeare Sigma spinning reel on a 6' Ugly-Stick I bought in the early '80s. I'm pretty sure it's my first setup. I don't remember how much I paid for it, but am 95% sure I bought it @ BrayWey sports, a tackle shop that's long been replaced by 'progress'.


fishing user avatar*Hootie reply : 

Zebco 606, shrink wrapped combo with an Abu reflex in line spinner.

Hootie


fishing user avatarAlonerankin2 reply : 

Zebco 202 in a box(lol) the only things I remember on the rod was it was a cork handled 2 piece with metal ferrules that were corroded togeather.. Baits were Maribou crappie jigs


fishing user avatarABW reply : 

The first one I got was probably a spiderman combo lol.

 

The one I bought was a Spiderwire spinning rod that was 30 bucks with a random spinning reel.

 

Baits I liked to use were Beetle Spins but with Powerbait grubs


fishing user avatartater555 reply : 

Caught my first bass on a brim buster with a bobber, hook, and worm when I was four. The first combo I can remember getting was a Shakespeare micro spin and a pack of watermelon seed zoom lizards. I swore by those things till my friend let me fish his 6'6" matzuo combo from walmart. I loved how much more backbone the rods had and how much better they would cast, so I bought a few of them. I still have one and took it fishing the other day and felt like I was fishing with a noodle. I think I made two or three casts and got the lews back out haha


fishing user avatarguitarglynn1 reply : 

a vintage zebco spincast and I don't even remember what model it was? The one with the big a** donkey tooth button on it to cast. I named it " the perch catcher "  But when I played little league baseball there was a stream behind the field in the woods and I found a worn out shimano combo somebody just left there. That was my first decent combo 


fishing user avatarJrob78 reply : 

I was so young I don't remember.  My guess is it was a Zebco 202 or 33 combo.


fishing user avatarArv reply : 

Some Abu garcia combo from Walmart. First lure... Probably a beetle spin


fishing user avatarEvanT123 reply : 

I think my first combo was probably some sort of spin cast rod and reel combo. Around 12 my dad bought me a nice daiwa spinner to put on an ugly stick and a fire tiger rapala crank. I proceeded to catch a nice little pike and throughly enjoyed watching my dad tangle with that thing with a small pair of forcepts. Lol a great memory from my childhood.


fishing user avatardosam reply : 

I chose to get some decent gear my first time out I got a orra 2sx and a mojo bass crank rod. The rod broke recently.


fishing user avatarLittleBob reply : 

The first I bought was an abu from Walmart and a med/heavy gX2 ugly stik as far as lures go I started out dragging 7 and 10 inch worms t-rigged, and that's still my favorite way to fish


fishing user avatarPoolshark reply : 

A Shakespeare spinning reel and rod combo. My first real bass set up.... A bps bionic blade and an abu garcia c3. My first bass lures were a rebel popper and 7inch purple worm.


fishing user avatarbass1980 reply : 

My first lure I got was "The Flying Lure". Made my dad order it when I saw the infomercial when I was 7 years old lol. I don't think I caught one fish with it but then again I don't think I really knew how what the heck I was doing at that age.


fishing user avatarJGBassinAL reply : 

Spinning was some $15 Shimano combo from Dick's and casting was an Abu Garcia Blue Max combo from Academy. Now I have 15 customs with Shimanos on them. I guess you could say I'm addicted...


fishing user avatarBluebasser86 reply : 

Roadrunner or rigged Creme Lil' Scoundrel with the prop spinner in front. Those two baits caught everything.


fishing user avatarOntarioFishingGuy reply : 

I think the rod was an old Bass Pro spinning rod, and my first fish came on an Original Floater in silver with a black back.


fishing user avatarWRB reply : 

Some things you don't forget, this is one of those.

Reel was Langley Lure Cast, Rod was Cololin 5 1/2' bass rod, line Ashley Camo Dacron 12 lb., lure was Hawaiian wiggler #3 weedless spoon red/white, second lure was Creek Chub Injured Minnow silver shiner.

Both surface type lures and I was 10 years old. Saved the money by helping my brother work on a boat landing all summer to buy my first bass fishing outfit.

Tom


fishing user avatargardnerjigman reply : 

Zebco 33 on an ugly stick. #3 purple mepps.


fishing user avatarJosh Smith reply : 

Mine was a Zebco 66.  I outgrew it, graduated to a Zebco 33.

 

I don't recall the rod.  It had to be a light or ML glass job.

 

I outgrew it a bit later on and the reel, at least was replaced with a Zebco 33. 

 

My first lures were Mepps inline spinners and Beetle Spins.

 

Josh


fishing user avatarhatrix reply : 

It kinda impossible for me to know what my first combo was but I know what the first one I ever bought my self was. I bought a Mitchell spinning reel back when it was made in the USA and they were good reels and then I paired it with a St. Croix worm rod. It had yellow inserts and I am pretty sure they were glass actually. It was I guess tech specific since I am pretty sure it had a picture of a worm on it. It was so long ago and I was like 8 or 9 so I can't totally remember. But I dropped some serious coin that day on fishing stuff and I was just a little kid. I had nicer stuff then lots of the adults I would see fishing. 


fishing user avatarOregon Native reply : 

Gosh...don't think I can remember that far....the first outfit I remember using was a white shakesphere flyrod with a plufger reel.  Ended up putting a Mitchell 308 on it for fishing bait.  Also remember upgrading to a four piece eagleclaw and using a motoroil colored lizard with it's legs cut off to look more like a worm to catch bass.


fishing user avatartholmes reply : 

My first combo was a Zebco 202 and a Zebco rod. It was used mostly for drownin' worms for panfish. When I was 10 years old, my grandpa told me that if I was going to be a "serious" bass fisherman, I needed a proper rod and reel, so he gave me an old Shakespeare model 1920 Wondereel on a 5-1/2' steel rod and a handful of old bass lures. I caught my first bass using that combo and a yellow / red spot Lazy Ike. 

 

Tom


fishing user avatareinscodek reply : 

ugly stik + grub


fishing user avatarPersicoTrotaVA reply : 

My first combo that I can remember was a Zebco 404, on a Zebco 5'6 or 6' rod(pistol grip), spooled with 20 lb mono.  My favorite lure to use was a zoom fat albert grub, but not a zoom, it was a walmart special.  The color was bright green.  I used to put it on a lead jighead, 1/8 or 1/4 oz and just slow reel it back on the bottom.  I also liked the gray slug gos rigged the same way and fished the same way.  I was 12 and I thought I was Bill Dance hahahahaha.


fishing user avatarDelaware Valley Tackle reply : 

As a kid I had a Zebco 404 reel and Zebco 5'6" pistol grip rod. One of my first artificial baits was a Creme worm on a harness / spinner. Caught a lot of creek bass and chubs with the occasional trout thrown in. Suckers and bullhead on night crawlers. Lost that combo when we tried carp fishing and I didn't leave the bail open. The rod bent over and before I could grab it out of the crotched stick, over the bank and down the river it went. 


fishing user avatarBassSlayer71 reply : 

Quantum Accurist reel with a Quantum rod.  First lure used was probably a Terminator spinnerbait but the first bass I caught on a lure was a deep diving crankbait in a baby bass color.  Not sure the brand though.




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