19 hours ago, freelancer27 said:

WHen you guys are carrying the rods, how do you manage it? Carry them in hand and then put the ones down that you dont use?

 

wading belt

This morning I took 3 rigs with me and left one in the car.  I had a baitcaster rigged weightless for fishing Senkos and flukes, a spinning reel rigged up for finesse plastics, and another spinning reel rigged up for shallow running crankbaits / spinner baits.

 

I had everything I would need for the day in my Plano 1155 tackle box.

I try to carry as little as possible. So I bring a couple of rods that might be the most useful where I'm fishing. I like simplicity so for bank fishing I keep a spinning setup, a 7 mhf casting rod for most single hook baits, a fiberglass rod for trebles( small to medium plugs) and a flipping rod. More often than not I know the place I'm fishing in advance so I'll have an idea of what I need to bring. Anymore than three rods is a pain. 

really depends on how far you are walking and how heavy the brush is. car is parked 100 yds away? - all your rods. on a wide hiking trail, take as many rods as you can comfortably carry. bushwacking for 2 miles? - 1 or 2 combos.

 

a med/xf spinning and a MH/fast BC can handle 75% of my fishing.

My first concern is accessibility!

 

One local marsh I fish you can drive right up to within 10-20 yards of the bank. In this case I carry all the tackle I want & can easily cast 8' rods with no thoughts of hitting anything with my back cast.

 

Yesterday I fished a river system & secluded pond. In both cases it would be impossible to use a 7-8' rod due to overhead obstruction. 

I take 2-4 set ups but mostly 3, all casting. One for weightless plastics, the second for jigs/weighted t-tigs, and the third moving baits. I hate using crankbaits from the banks so I barely bring them. I feel like those 3 set ups cover a lot from the bank but it can be a pain moving all of that stuff.

Thanks for all responses, I think from what's been said most bank anglers carry 2-3 rods depending on where they are fishing. However they are not limited to owning more than what they carry out on each trip. 

The lake I fish most frequently is extremely wooded. So, what I carry is really season dependent. During the winter and spring I can afford to carry multiple rods, but I never carry more than 3 (1 ML spinning, 1 M casting, 1 MH casting). Once the plants get growing, I can really only effectively fish with spinning gear and won't bring more than one rod. I've tried casting multiple times and it's just too much of a headache for me. 

 

I also need to work on downsizing my tackle selection as well. I took a trip down a hill this past Saturday with my rod in my hand and about 15 pounds of tackle on my back. It wasn't pretty and it sure as heck wasn't pleasant. Ended up face down in the lake but, by some divine miracle, had 0 of the two sets of trebles from the jerkbaits I had tied on stuck in me. 

All the waters that I fish from shore here in the Kawartha's are very accessible to the public. Matter of fact, I'm never more than a 30 second walk from the car...lol

 

When it comes to what I'll pack, I try to tell myself that I'll just take a couple of combos each time but who am I kidding...lol

 

One MLXF spinning combo for shakey heads and wacky senkos rigged with 6lbs fluoro, medium fibreglass baitcaster with 12lbs fluoro for small to midsize crank and spinnerbaits, a MF spinning combo for jerkbaits, a MF baitcaster loaded with 30lbs braid solely for walking style topwaters, and a MHF baitcaster that I use for frogging, pitching, and any texas rigged soft baits.

 

So that's a total of 5 combos that I have with me when I head out. Now, if I'm going out with a specific pattern that I want to fish, I'll head out with the applicable combos and leave the others at home. Case in point, I just picked up my MHF baitcaster combo for frogging/pitching/texas rigged baits so when bass opens I'm going to take that combo along with walking style topwater combo to give them a good workout and make sure that I can get familiar with their nuances.

 

As for what to carry them in, it's really not a requirement for me. However, if I did have to, there are several rod carriers available on the market that'll do the trick.

 

Hope that this makes sense...lol

On 6/10/2017 at 4:27 AM, PatrickKnight said:

 

wading belt

What kind?