What rod and reel did you catch your PB with? 2024
RiskKid. reply :
I just thought this might be interesting and fun. We always debate our favorites but this may open some eyes.
I am blessed to have mostly nice high end gear....HOWEVER.... 
My PB in my avatar was caught with a BPS Crankin Stick and a BPS David Friitts Cranking Reel (bait = Strike King series 5 in sexy shad)
Chris at Tech reply :
Daiwa Tierra 2000 spooled with 8lb P-Line CX on a Avid AS69MLXF
Daiwa reply :
Shakespeare Dimension with 14lb test (I think, maybe its 12) on a Tournie Trail Cabelas rod. Med/heavy.
Stasher1 reply :
Shimano Sahara 2500 with 8lb. Sufix Elite on a 6'8" ML BPS Extreme "Woo Daves"
firefightn15 reply :
Carrot stix mh and a Daiwa 153 Black Widow II
Al Wolbach reply :
G Loomis MBR 844c GLX and Diawa TD103
mattm reply :
St Croix Legend Tournament Series sweeper spinnerbait with a Shimano Cruxis.
Interestingly, that is my least favorite cheapest reel and least favorite, by a mile, rod I own.
Alpster reply :
There's along story that goes with this one, but my PB was caught on a Zebco 202 with a $3 rod with one guide broken off. Here's the story....
http://www.bassresource.com/bass_fishing_forums/YaBB.pl?num=1154984854/13#13
Ronnie
BassinSoldier reply :
It was a while back...I think I was like 13 fishin a strip pit in Sanderson FL. Anyhow, I was using a Quantum Energy reel...I don't remember the model # but it was a kinda sparkly brownish/burnt orange color baitcaster and a berkley hunter graphite rod, throwin a red shad culprit jerk worm. 11.5 lbs! Sadly I was a youngster who was too young to be conservation minded and had a skin mount made of that fish and another 10+ I got outta there about a year later. In the long run it wouldn't have mattered though because the pit dried up totally.
Jeff H reply :
Sept 17th 1994. Shimano Castaic spooled with Berkley 17lb XT mounted on 6'6" Berkley Lightning Rod B-50. I still have both and still use the reel, which Reel Mech serviced over the winter and works like new. The rod, which I loved back then, is retired.
bass wrangler569 reply :
A pflueger president spinning reel and an all star ultralight rod. The fish was 8lbs 1 oz.
bronzeback01 reply :
my pb was caught on a st croix premeir that i closed in the car door so it was 3" shorter than it shound have been.
btw it was 8lbs
KevO reply :
Both PB LMB and SMB (5.5 and 4.75 respectively) came on a Shimano Curado 200DHSV and a 7' med fast St. Croix Premeire.
SJex reply :
G Loomis MBR844C IMX and a Abu Garcia Revo SX-HS.
Jimzee reply :
Lake Guntersville, AL - Daiwa Alphas Ito, Kistler Helium LTX 7' MH, Trilene 100% Fluoro. Pro Grade, Terminator T1 1/2 oz. spinnerbait.
deadeye32. reply :
fenwick hmg spinning rod and shimano sahara 2500. Caught on a shakey head. 11.8oz
Catt reply :
Rod: Castaway CSAP68 Sport Series Med. Heavy All Purpose
Length: 6' 8
Line: 10-17 lb
Lure: 5/16-3/4
Power: Medium Heavy
Action: Extra Fast
Reel: Shimano Calcutta CT100 Gear Ratio: 5:8.1 Weight: 8.8 oz Bearings: 2+1
Line: Berkley Big Game 15# Mean Green
Lure: Bill Lewis Rat-L-Trap ½ oz. Chrome Red
Joe Boss reply :
Mitchell 300x and a ML 6'6" Berkley Lightning rod
fishinfiend reply :
An older model BPS reel and tournament series rod that my uncle gave me to keep as a spare. This thing is not in the best shape and I was surprised that I was able to land the fish.
Grey Wolf reply :
Spirex reel and an old lightning rod.
GonzoFishing reply :
My inshore saltwater gear! It was an 8' Hurricane RedBone rod with a Quantum Cabo spinning reel loaded with 20lb power pro. Here in South Florida you never know what the next cast will bring! I love it
ww2farmer reply :
LMB: 7' Medium power/Fast Action Fenwick Techna AV, Team Daiwa Advantage 2500 , 8lb Trilene sensation, weightless zoom trick worm.
SMB 7' Medium light power/Fast action St. Croix Avid, Pflueger Supreme 8030MG, 6lb Trilene 100% Flurocarbon, drop shot rig, 4" robo worm.
LMB=6.38 lbs 5-8-06
SMB=6.02 lbs 4-29-08
Raul reply :
A blast from the past:
Rod.- Berkley Lighting Rod LR16 5 '6" MH pistol grip
Reel.- Abu Garcia Ambassadeur 521 XLT Plus
Line.- Trilene Big Game 12 lbs test
Lure.- Rapala Shad Rap SR7SD.
LMB.- 13.86 lbs.
bobbyK reply :
6' 6" M Berkley Series 1 w/ Revo SX (L) spooled with 12# Gamma CoPoly.
My first and only baitcaster but looking for the next!
slomoe reply :
Okuma Guide select 6'6" med/fast
daiwa procaster
8lb XT
basser89 reply :
April 9, 2006
5lbs 14oz
Rod - 7' MH Bass Pro Shops Tourney Special
Reel - Quantum Accurist AC400
Line - 17lb test Bass Pro Shops XPS fluro
Lure - 3/8oz Picasso Red Shad spinnerbait
Daniel My Brother reply :
Reel: Cabelas Prodigy Baitcaster (the newer one made by Daiwa)
Rod: 7ft Med. BPS Pro Qualifier
Line: Berkley Big Game 12#
Lure: Tiki Stick (Green w/Black Fleck)
Big Tom reply :
Largemouth: 4lb. 3oz.
Rod 6'6" Medium Bass Pro Shops Pro Qualifier.
Reel Browning Citori
Smallmouth: 4lb. 14oz.
Rod 6' Medium St. Croix Premier
Reel Plueger President 6735 Spinning
Bankbeater reply :
Abu Garcia Amb. 5000 spooled with 15 lb. Berkley Big Game on a
6'-6" Diawa heavy action/fast tip rod.
ArcticCat500 reply :
my P.B was a 6lb even on a Shimano Spirex 2000 strapped to my 5'4" custom Lamiglas fiberglas dock skipping spinning rod, she hit a texas rigged black shad Culprit worm, I never knew she was there she jus took it swam away, then BANG.
Hot n Tot reply :
7' MHF St. Croix Avid
Shimano Castaic SF
50# Power Pro
Red reply :
Revo S-L spooled with 10lb trilene XT, custom 6' MH rod made for me by Alpster, black on black 3/8 cavitron buzzbait.
Jake. reply :
I caught mine on a friend's combo. A Johnny Morris Signature Series baitcaster on a Kistler Graphite Plus Series 6'9' MH F.
Branuss04 reply :
On my epic day, my cardiff 400 broke on my second fish only 20 minutes into our trip. I ended up using 4bizzs' loomis 955 with a cardiff 300 lined with 20# with a 8in hudd
FR0G reply :
Official PB: Okuma XH 7'11" with Shimano Cardiff 400
Unofficial PB: Powell 765 with Shimano Citica
strick9 reply :
PB Largemouth 5 1/2 lb
Quantum Accurist reel w/15 lb P-line Flouroclear
St. Croix Premier rod
Home made buzzbait
PB Smallmouth 20" weight unknown
Quantum Accurist PT reel w/12lb P-line flouroclear
St. Croix Premier rod
Pop-R
Muddy reply :
6'6" Med/fast Fenwick Ventura
Pflueger Trion LPNS
Masshole Mike reply :
Largemouth - 7' MH Fenwick HMX paired with a Revo SX-L spooled with 12# Yo-Zuri Ultra Soft. 6lbs 12oz caught on an Evolution jig at Lake Guntersville, AL.
Smallmouth - 6'6" M Fenwick Eagle GT paired with a Pflueger President 6735 spooled with 8# Yo-Zuri Hybrid. 4lbs even caught on a Gitzit tube at the Quabbin Reservoir, MA.
.RM. reply :
Long Time Ago... 8-)
A 10lb. Florida Strain LM, caught in 40' on Lake Poway, Poway CA (SD) with an old (89) Shimano® TX graphite spinning reel, on an old Shimano® Beastmaster 6'6" MLF rod, lined with 8lb. Ande® Tournament Green line, split-shoting a 4" smoke/blue-fleck reaper and #6 hook.
Tight Lines All!!
KnightHawk reply :
Rogue 602 SJ w/Shimano Stradic 2500 spooled with McCoy 10 lb. Mean Green copoly
The_Natural reply :
QuoteA blast from the past:Rod.- Berkley Lighting Rod LR16 5 '6" MH pistol grip
Reel.- Abu Garcia Ambassadeur 521 XLT Plus
Line.- Trilene Big Game 12 lbs test
Lure.- Rapala Shad Rap SR7SD.
LMB.- 13.86 lbs.
I'm seeing a trend here. That is the 3rd PB that has come off of an old Lightning Rod. I did break my PB in '06 on a Loomis GLX, but I've only caught 4 fish over 7lbs in my life, and 3 of those were back in '89-'92, on my old trusty 6' M Berkley Lightning rod (black foam baby!) spinning combo. . Those rods were the sh!t back in the day.
S I G M A reply :
6'6" custom made avid with a revo s on 50lb green powerpro
Joe Boss reply :
QuoteQuoteA blast from the past:Rod.- Berkley Lighting Rod LR16 5 '6" MH pistol grip
Reel.- Abu Garcia Ambassadeur 521 XLT Plus
Line.- Trilene Big Game 12 lbs test
Lure.- Rapala Shad Rap SR7SD.
LMB.- 13.86 lbs.
I'm seeing a trend here. That is the 3rd PB that has come off of an old Lightning Rod. I did break my PB in '06 on a Loomis GLX, but I've only caught 4 fish over 7lbs in my life, and 3 of those were back in '89-'92, on my old trusty 6' M Berkley Lightning rod (black foam baby!) spinning combo. . Those rods were the crap back in the day.
I remember those black foam handle Lightning Rods from the early 90's I caught my PB Chain Pickerel and Rainbow Trout on one of those paired with a Shimano Syncopate. Its still hard for me to beat the cast I used to get from that combo.
.ghoti. reply :
Interesting topic. Looks like a lot of PB's are several years old. This reinforces the idea that a true trophy is a very rare creature, no matter where you are.
I've caught two 8 pound largemouth.
#1. about 15 years ago
6' Team Daiwa George Cochran model rod
Daiwa TD2-Hi reel, #10 or #12 XL line
small green lizard on a jighead.
#2. last year
St Croix Avid rod 6'8" MXF
Revo STX, #12 XL
blue GYCB Swim Senko
Best smallmouth 4 1/2 lbs Crane Lake, Mn several years back
caught on a live leech on a jighead, fishing for walleye. Fishing about 45 feet deep when it hit. I thought I had a record walleye.
Berkley Cherrywood rod, 7' M ( 10 bucks at wally-world)
Symetre reel, 6lb test XL
Hawgin reply :
The 8lber I caught earlier this summer was on a:
Fenwick Techna AV
Shimano Citica 100D
Yo-Zuri Hybrid ultra soft #12
Aaron reply :
6' M 2pc. Ugly stick with a cheap Abu Cardinal Spinning reel and 14# Trilene XL. This was my first spinning rod and what got me hooked on bass fishing. I sold it a few years ago when I started upgrading all of my equipment.
Raul reply :
QuoteI'm seeing a trend here. That is the 3rd PB that has come off of an old Lightning Rod. I did break my PB in '06 on a Loomis GLX, but I've only caught 4 fish over 7lbs in my life, and 3 of those were back in '89-'92, on my old trusty 6' M Berkley Lightning rod (black foam baby!) spinning combo. . Those rods were the crap back in the day.
S*t happened my man, I met a Californy girl, dated her for several years and finally got married to her and then had two beautiful kids with her; nowdays I don 't fish as much as I used to before dating her, so less time on the water ---> less chances of hooking a goodun with my newer tackle.
Ky_Lake_Dude reply :
Daiwa Procaster with a 7'6 H BPS Bionic Blade
kms399 reply :
7' med-hvy moderate st. Croix avid, with a shimano citica spooled with 14# suffix braid caught on a yellow and black baby 1-
my buddy FAILS at taking pics he only got about 1/3 of the fish in the pic
SimonSays reply :
The fish in my avatar was my largest, stupid me didn't have a scale. BR Member guesses ranged from 5-7lbs, I stick to 5lb just so i can break it easier =D
anyways, it was on a 6'6" BPS extreme MH, the old ones didn't have an action rating on them but it felt like a mod. fast compared to my MHF St croix. Reel was a Shimano Citica 201 with some kind of braid.
Top reply :
Chronarch MG50 on a Loomis IMX with 10 lb test line... the 9 lber spun the basshound around twice before we could get it landed... not an hour later the guy I was fishign with landed a 12 lber *sigh*... that day I saw three fish over 9 pounds pulled out of that lake in less than 2 hours... it will be YEARS I am sure before I see something like that again..
Dave D reply :
a Shimano Cardiff with a Cabela's 7 ft tourney rod, both of which I no longer have because they both failed. However I did catch a 7lb largie on it so I can't complain too much! ;D
MN Bass Man reply :
On a 5'9" ML F pro tourney rod and Shimano Sedona 2500 reel, with a purple worm rigged wacky style.
20" LM, approx. 5 lbs.
Ballpark Frank reply :
5'6" Fenwick pistol grip with an Abu 5000C when I was 13(23 years ago), she weighed 12#8oz.
Cyork reply :
21 inch 5.5 lb smallie caught with a shakespeare micro-graphite 7 ft light action, shimano tx1000 with 6lb stren and a brown gitzit tube.
Bassaholic84 reply :
Revo STX on a 6'6" BPS extreme
Andrew Coleman reply :
Daiwa Regal 3000XIA amd a BPS Bionic Blade, 6'6 MH
Munkin reply :
In the past 3 years I have caught 3 bass about 7lbs each.
7'H Kistler
Quantum PT600
20lb p-line pure floro
Handmade jig using black Micro Munch skirt
Allen
MNGeorge reply :
6 lb. 1oz. Smallie caught with a Sage 360 spinning rod and a Quantum QMD 20 spinning reel. 8 lb. test Berkley TriMax line and a tiny Big O in brown crawfish pattern.
5 lb. 14 oz. Largemouth caught on the same rod with a Quantum Kinetic PTi-A, size 30, and the same brand line. 6" red shad curly tail worm.
luvfishing reply :
today 4lb 6oz using shakespeare cirrus rod and reel, spooled with 14lb stren super braid
adclem reply :
BPS Rick Clunn Signature Series 6' 6" MH fast Action rod with Rick Clunn Signature Series Bait Caster. Using Power Pro 50lbs braided moss green line with BPS 4/0 offset worm hook and a 5" trick stick craw orange swirl.
First actual cast with it as well.
Later,
kickbasskid reply :
BPS Tourney Special 7' MH w/ Quantum inferno
plnoldrick reply :
6'9" MXF St Croix legend tourney, Daiwa Tierra 2500, 2/10 power pro with an 8lb flouro leader. 20" smallie probably just over 4lbs and a 25" largemouth that went between 6 and 7 (post spawn) both fish (sm + lg) ironically caught using a skinny 4" tube.
Bass Mekanik reply :
Shimano Compre 7ft M-XF rod and Pflueger President 6035 with 8 lb silver thread. 3/0 EWG w/ watermelon red flake tiki stik in 3ft of water.
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