If you are a brand loyal fan boy turn around now lol

Jusy curious how many different brands of rod and reel do you guys own and fish?

I have Lews, shimano, Abu, and BPS reels and St Croix, loomis, *** and Lews rods on board my boat. All get use at some point during the yeat and yes i have my favorites but im kinda glad to fish gear from multiple different makers

Rods: St Croix, NFC, Rainshadow (all custom)

Reels: Shimano.

Rods: Fenwick, Berkley, Abu Garcia

 

Reels: Daiwa, Pflueger, Abu Garcia

Megabass, Daiwa, Shimano, Abu, Penn, Quantum, Lews, 13, ALX, G. Loomis, St Croix, Edge, Phenix, Okuma, BPS, and Cabelas that I can see right away. Might be some obscure stuff out there somewhere. Mostly Shimano and Daiwa reels though.

Three different rod brands & two different reel brands.

That I actually use on a regular basis, 1 reel brand (Shimano) and 1 rod brand (Loomis).

Rods: All Star, BPS, Berkley, Daiwa, Fenwick, Loomis, Gander Mountain, Garcia, Heddon, Phenix, Sears, Shakespeare, Shimano, St. Croix

 

Reels: Abu, Academy, Ardent, BPS, Daiwa, Garcia-Mitchell, Lido, Mitchell, Pflueger, Sears, Shakespeare, Shimano, Zebco

Rods, let me see. Right now I have rods made by Dobyns, Daiwa, Kistler. Owned and loved Abu Garcias, Shimanos, Pinnacles, Powells, Loomises, Okumas and a few customs at different points in time. Never been particular to a specific company.

 

Casting reels have always been Shimanos. Spinning reels, mostly Shimanos, but a few BPS and Abu Garcias have been thrown in the mix.

Rods:  Abu, Airrus, Berkley, BPS, Cabela's, Daiwa, Falcon, Fenwick, Field & Stream, Quantum, Powell, Shimano, ***, Walmart (made by Daiwa) and Batson blanks.

 

Reels:  Abu (Ambassadeur, Morrum and Revo), BPS, Daiwa, Lews. Pflueger, Shimano, Penn, Cabela's (made by Daiwa).

Rods: Abu Garcia, carrot stick, Wright and Mcgill, Fenwick, 13, Powell, and Kistler

 

Reels:  Abu Garcia, Lews, Shimano

Reels:

Shimano - 10

Diawa - 1

Abu - 1

Rods:

Shimano - 2

St. Croix - 2

Dobyns - 2

G. Loomis - 1

Bps - 5

Rods: GLoomis, Shimano, GraphiteLeader

 

Reels: Shimano, Daiwa, Abu.

2 rod brands and 1 reel brand for conventional

 

2 rod brands and 4 reel brands for fly fishing gear

Mostly dobyns and a few megabass sticks with shimano and daiwa reels.

As of right now just shimano rods and reels. Have one custom St Croix finesse rod. Really close to bringing a Daiwa/Megabass reel back into the fleet...

Rods - Powell, Dobyns, BPS

Reels - Abu Garcia, Lews, Shimano

Reels:

Shimano - 10

Diawa - 1

Abu - 1

 

 

My reel count is opposite of yours.  Shimanos - 6     Abus - 8   Daiwas - 29.  This includes spinning and baitcasting reels.

 

If you consider this too many reels...............you would be correct.  Unfortunately I can only think of 2 reels that I might be willing to sell.

Reels: 2 brands

Rods: 3 brands

I wonder as far as "fan boys" go how many only fish Shakespeare ?

Edit: I like my reels metal and my rods made by me.

rods:berkley,lews,quantum,powell,halo

reels:shimano lews,abu garcia,pflueger

I wonder as far as "fan boys" go how many only fish Shakespeare ?

 

My daughter's boyfriend (common law husband?) fishes Zebco exclusively.  I think his father does the same.  Sounds like the start of a fan club to me. 

Rods by fenwick, shimano, ***, daiwa, shakespeare, pinnacle, and powell.

Reels by daiwa, shimano, lews, and mitchell

Thats for right now but i buy and sell fishing gear pretty regular so theres no telling what ill have soon lol

Rods: Bass Pro, Rapala, Abu Garcia, Quantum, Berkley.

 

Reels: Shimano, Daiwa, Bass Pro, Abu Garcia, Rapala, Quantum.

5 diff rod brands

6 diff reel brands

Rods

Dobyns -12

Daiwa - 2

Shimano - 2

Field and Stream - 3

Daiko (my only jdm rod)

Rainshadow

Abu Garcia - 6

Reels

Daiwa - 16

Shimano - 8

Lew's - 5