What's your favorite rod?

[Porter2]

Sage 691-4 XP is mine. It’s a Jack of all trades type of rod, will do some dries, excellent streamer rod, good on the salt too. Generally when I fish new waters with no real intel I will use this rod because of its adaptability. It will easily cast a variety of lines, it’s just a fun easy great casting fish fighting rod. This rod is always in my traveling quiver.

 

[troutstalker]

Sage 691-4 XP is mine. It’s a Jack of all trades type of rod, will do some dries, excellent streamer rod, good on the salt too. Generally when I fish new waters with no real intel I will use this rod because of its adaptability. It will easily cast a variety of lines, it’s just a fun easy great casting fish fighting rod. This rod is always in my traveling quiver.

Nice rods! The XP also has a large fan base for good reason.

 

[mcswny]

Mine is a Scott G2 884. It doesn’t do much more that cast dries perfectly, but that’s all I ask of it .

 

[SpeyrodGB]

Too many to choose.

 

[poolhopping]

granger 8642. just upgraded from my champion to a deluxe.

 

[troutstalker]

granger 8642. just upgraded from my champion to a deluxe.

Congratulations!

 

[troutstalker]

Too many to choose.

That doesn't sound like a bad problem to have.

 

[Northern]

Hmm. To me, this is like asking what my favorite color is. People don't like the answer "it depends," but it does! Often my favorite color is bright yellow...but not for, say, pants.

Small creeks: Cabelas 2wt CGR. Ultralight glass makes 6" fish fun

West side lake stocker trout, and Yakima: Albright A5 9" 4wt is a joy to cast, light enough to make smaller trout fun, and stout enough to excel at powering through wind or landing the occasional larger fish

Bass: Echo 8wt BAG Quickshot 'cause duh - bass on glass is a hoot

East of Cascades trout, light salt, bigger streams: 6wt Orvis Helios 3D, because dang, that rod can throw anything accurately, and the lightest rod I have with a fighting butt

And lest you think I'm just naming all my rods...I'm in the process of organizing my garage. This is the first time I've had them all in the same place

To my husband's credit - he walked past this yesterday and didn't even blink

 

[Brute]

My favorite rod at the moment is my 2 piece 5wt Burkie…

 

[gpt]

there is no way to answer that question without considering what and where you are fishing. for smaller water, sage LL in 490 is the ticket. for bigger water like the OR Deschutes, sage 7100 designed to fight the wind, also a great bonefish rod. steelhead, my sage 896 and salmon in moving water, sage 1096, big fish, tarpon to bill fish, sage 1290. all my sage rods are original so they are either RPL or RPLX, i have to need to experiment with the newer stuff from this vendor.

 

[Long_Rod_Silvers]

Sage 691-4 XP is mine. It’s a Jack of all trades type of rod, will do some dries, excellent streamer rod, good on the salt too. Generally when I fish new waters with no real intel I will use this rod because of its adaptability. It will easily cast a variety of lines, it’s just a fun easy great casting fish fighting rod. This rod is always in my traveling quiver.

I think if I was pressed to answer I'd say the 696-4 Z Axis is mine. For similar reasons to what you stated. Good stick.

 

[troutstalker]

Hmm. To me, this is like asking what my favorite color is. People don't like the answer "it depends," but it does! Often my favorite color is bright yellow...but not for, say, pants.

Small creeks: Cabelas 2wt CGR. Ultralight glass makes 6" fish fun

West side lake stocker trout, and Yakima: Albright A5 9" 4wt is a joy to cast, light enough to make smaller trout fun, and stout enough to excel at powering through wind or landing the occasional larger fish

Bass: Echo 8wt BAG Quickshot 'cause duh - bass on glass is a hoot

East of Cascades trout, light salt, bigger streams: 6wt Orvis Helios 3D, because dang, that rod can throw anything accurately, and the lightest rod I have with a fighting butt

And lest you think I'm just naming all my rods...I'm in the process of organizing my garage. This is the first time I've had them all in the same place
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To my husband's credit - he walked past this yesterday and didn't even blink

There is no right or wrong answer. A rod that's good for one thing might be the worst choice for something else. I totally agree about not wanting to wear yellow pants.
You have some nice rods there! Thank you so much for sharing!

 

[troutstalker]

My favorite rod at the moment is my 2 piece 5wt Burkie…

I don't own one but have heard nothing but good thing about Burkheimer rods.

 

[Jake Watrous]

Why choose only one? Horses for courses.

 

[troutstalker]

I think if I was pressed to answer I'd say the 696-4 Z Axis is mine. For similar reasons to what you stated. Good stick.

Lots of people love their Z's!

 

[troutstalker]

Why choose only one? Horses for courses.

No need to choose one. Feel free to list all of your favorites. Rods are kind of like people. Some are better at certain things and some are better all around. Some are really beautiful and nice to look at and some not so much.

 

[Jake Watrous]

No need to choose one. Feel free to list all of your favorites.

The three rods with which I could fish for damn-near anything, with damn-near anything.

T&T Contact II 10' 4wt

Stickman T-9 (9' 9wt)

Scott Sector 8'4" 13wt

 

[troutstalker]

The three rods with which I could fish for damn-near anything, with damn-near anything.

T&T Contact II 10' 4wt

Stickman T-9 (9' 9wt)

Scott Sector 8'4" 13wt

There you go! Awesome! Thank you for your reply!

 

[Westelyea]

My 7’6” 4wt iconoglass hands down my current favorite

 

[Bambooflyguy]

The one I’m fishing with at that time! (Bamboo)