Your First Rod 2025
BASSPATROL247 reply :
The first rod that was all mine and not one of my grandpas was a wright and mcgill #MNBSC-60 6FT casting rod with "mini ferrules" lol! And the reel was an abumatic, cant remember the model i'll pull it out later..lots of good memories come to mind looking at this old girl....
WPCfishing reply :
Sweet !
My first one was a bamboo fly rod my brother gave me. I mounted a Zebco on it. I could out cast everybody with it. Dobber hook and earth worm from the banks. I think I was 8 years old.
John G reply :
The rod a Zebco 33 combo came with in the mid 70's.
BASSPATROL247 reply :
Nice and nice!!! Think i got mine about 82 so i was about 7.. grandpa took me to a sporting goods store and i remember seeing that yellow rod with a eagle on it and it was all over but crying ha ha ha.
Bruce424 reply :
Umm.. mine was a snoopy rod.
WIGuide reply :
I believe my first one was a little plastic rod that was about a foot long that was a bath toy complete with floating fish that I'd use in the bath tub haha.
the reel ess reply :
1. Daiwa UL 4.5' combo that whipped a lot of bream and crappies, and some good cats.
2. Zebco 33 5.5' MH got me going on bass
3. Daiwa Procaster BC 5.5' MH-never looked back
WPCfishing reply :
I still have my daughters first rod and reel combo. The price tags still on it. She was 4 or 5 when I bought it for her. I'll take a pic and post it.
ABW reply :
Batman rod
new2BC4bass reply :
Cane pole with a piece of mono tied on. Following year I was given a Mitchell 300, but absolutely no idea what brand the rod was.
CeeJay reply :
Mine was an old Shakespeare fiberglass casting rod that belonged to my dad. He originally got it in the early 1960's I believe.
I matched it with the cheapest spincast reel I could find. 
My very first dozen or so fish were caught on it. But within a month I had a collection of brand new rods and retired the old Shakespeare.
Fisher-O-men reply :
On 6/22/2015 at 9:29 PM, WPCfishing said:I still have my daughters first rod and reel combo. The price tags still on it. She was 4 or 5 when I bought it for her. I'll take a pic and post it.
She never used it? BTW, what's a dobber? JK!
I think my first was a Shakesphere Wonderod! Of course it had a Wondercast attached. I was sure proud of that set up!
kikstand454 reply :
My grandpa bought me a zebco 5'5" m before I was even born.1975. It was black and white.... I used that thing tilI was probably 10 or so. I was so devastated when the handle finally broke on it!!!! I didn't even want the rod my parents bought to replace it. Lol.
But I got over it.
jbrass reply :
my first combo was a 2000 size shimano sedona on a really old and beaten shimano rod
BASSPATROL247 reply :
Cool replies...if i tried to fish with my first set up it would not be pretty lol that short butt and trigger along with the spincast reel would feel alien to me now...
CeeJay reply :
On 6/22/2015 at 11:57 PM, Fisher-O-men said:She never used it? BTW, what's a dobber? JK!
I think my first was a Shakesphere Wonderod! Of course it had a Wondercast attached. I was sure proud of that set up!
Yep that's the one my dad gave me for my first rod I had forgotten it had the Wonderod label. It had an offset reel seat and was very heavy
DailyBassin' reply :
I believe it was a black and blue push button rod and reel lol
WPCfishing reply :
On 6/22/2015 at 9:29 PM, WPCfishing said:I still have my daughters first rod and reel combo. The price tags still on it. She was 4 or 5 when I bought it for her. I'll take a pic and post it.
On 6/22/2015 at 11:57 PM, Fisher-O-men said:She never used it? BTW, what's a dobber? JK!
I think my first was a Shakesphere Wonderod! Of course it had a Wondercast attached. I was sure proud of that set up!
She used it but never abused it. She was only 5 or so. She learned to cast this little rod and reel with a solid rubber frog I cut the hook off. A year later she was catching bass with it.
This is a dobber...
Bluebasser86 reply :
Eagle Claw Featherlite with a 1000 Shimano TX spinning reel loaded with 6lb Trilene.
tomustang reply :
Some cheap daiwa combo, light blue colored rod, 2 piece.
John G reply :
On 6/22/2015 at 11:02 PM, new2BC4bass said:Cane pole with a piece of mono tied on. Following year I was given a Mitchell 300, but absolutely no idea what brand the rod was.
I was going to say a cane pole but I figured that if it doesn't have guides and a reel seat, it isn't a fishing rod. LOL
MDBowHunter reply :
My first brand new all mine was a 6' ugly stick with a first ten Daiwa magforce reel. I actually caught my first bass on that rod, wish I still had it for conversation sake
bigturtle reply :
Zebco horizon spinning rod was the first rod i owned. Owned many fishing poles before then, but the zebco was the first rod that i had to put a reel on
thomas15 reply :
We lived on the Jersey Shore and fished both salt and fresh water. My first rod/reel was a boat pole that I received for my 6th birthday. The pole as a Sears fiberglass rod and the reel was a Penn Long Beach 65. I still have the reel and even the box it came in but the pole is long gone. That reel is 51 years old!
When I was about 8 or 9 and starting to fish fresh water my parents gave us each a Diawa light weight spinning combo. It worked for a while but wasn't very good quality, I think it cost about $3.00 at the time. I liked using a spinning rig but hated my particular set up. For many years I equated Diawa with inexpensive stuff.
Then over the next several years I went through a progression of ultra light rigs working up to finally getting a Garcia Conolin 5 star with a Mitchell 308 reel. That set up put me in fishing pole heaven! I used my paper route money to buy this. I no longer have any of that stuff, but when I was in college I went to the local department store (Hechts in Clarksburg WV) and bought a Hechts (Berkley) 6' spinning combo, forget what reel, probably around $15.00. That was about 38 years ago. I still have that pole which has a old Shimano reel that I found at a lake one day. The last time I used that pole was just last night at my first bass tournament.
I did and still do love to buy and collect fishing tackle.
Harrell Thomas reply :
My first rod was a carbon fiber telescopic rod, it was like a pen. that's funny.
Catt reply :
This was not only my first rod/reel but my first setup for tournament fishing on Toledo Bend!
If I wanted to change lures, I had to cut off & retie, if I back lashed I sat down & picked it out.
Abu Garcia Ambassadeur 5000
Heddon Mark Special Purpose #6277 Fiberglass
5 1/5'
Medium Heavy Action
Lure: 3/8 to 1 oz.
Line: 8# to 20#
Bankbeater reply :
Mine was an old 5' rod that my Dad pulled out of the river. Never knew what make or model it was. Over the years it held a Zebco 33, and a Johnson Century.
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