I find myself buying from the same companies a lot.  I am the type who will experiment with several common brands and then settle down.  My favorites right now are:

Rods: St Croix  

Reels:  Pfluger or the discontinued BPS Viper

Lines:  Braid-Power Pro,  Fluro-Seaguar, Mono-Mustad or Maxon

Leader :  Yozuri Hybrid or Maxon Chameleon

Hooks-Gamakatsu

Soft Plastics:  Zoom is my #1, but I use a lot of brands here.  Rage tail, Yum, Z man, Culprit, Berkley 

Jigs-  not enough experience to judge

Hard baits- Rapala

 

 

if your local store would stock only one brand in each category, and you got to pick what they carried, what brands would you pick?

Rod: Abu garcia

Reel: Quantum or Shimano

Hardbait: Storm

Softbait: Reaction Innovation

Line: Kastking

Hooks: Gamakatsu

Rods: G. Loomis 

Reels: Shimano

Lines: Braid - Sufix 832 / Fluoro - Seaguar / Mono - Not sure yet...

Leader: Seaguar fluoro

Hooks: Gamakatsu

Soft Plastics: Strike King

Jigs: Strike King Bitsy Bugs

Hard baits: N/A (I'm allergic to treble hooks)

Rods:Jawbone

Reels:Zebco spincast

Lines:Zebco omniflex

Hooks:Eagle claw

Soft plastics:luck e strike

hard baits:1$ spinnerbait

My previous comment was a joke. Here is my real opinion.

 

Rods:Berkley

Reels:Pfluger

Lines: Braid-Daiwa J Braid     Flouro-Seaguar     Mono-Berkley Trilene XL and XT

Leader: Yo Zuri Hybrid

Hooks: Mustad

Soft Plastics: Zoom

Jigs: strike king

Hard baits: strike king KVD

Rods: Falcon

Reels:  Pflueger spinning - Lews casting

Lines:  Braid-Power Pro,  FC- Sunline

Leader : Sunline

Hooks: Gamakatsu

Soft Plastics: Zman, Zoom

Hard Baits: Bandit

Production rods:  G. Loomis & St. Croix

Custom: Gork by ghoti, Rainshadow blanks both Eternity and Immortal

Reels: Shimano

Line: Seaguar Tatsu, Smackdown braid, Sunline Shooter Defier Armilo and Yo-Zuri Hybrid

Soft plastics: Rage Tail & GYCB

Hardbaits: Megabass, Lucky Craft, Strike King, MegaStrike and Siebert Outdoors

Jigs: Siebert Outdoors

Hooks: Trokar, Gamakatsu, Daiichi X-Point and Katsuage trble hooks

 

for me:

 

Rods: G. Loomis

Reels: Shimano

line: Sufix Siege mono mainly

hard baits: Rapalas mainly

Casting rods,  Gloomis

Spinning, St.Croix

Reels, Shimano. 

Lines, braid for spinning Power Pro and Suffix nano braid for the really light stuff. For casting Gamma copoly.

Soft plastics, Zman...with some Zoom and generic finesse tubes mixed in.

Ditto Zman jig trailers. 

1. Rods: St. Croix, BPS Carbonlite, BPS MicroLite
2. Reels: Shimano
3. Lines: Power Pro Yellow, Super Slick 8 yellow
4. Leaders: Yo-Zuri Hybrid, Gamma Edge, P-Line Floroclear
5. Soft Plastics: Yamamoto, Zoom, Storm, Bass Assassin, Zman, etc.
6. Hooks: Gamakatsu

I'll play:

 

Rods: G. Loomis/Dobyns

Reels:  Shimano

Lines:  Braid - Power Pro, Fluoro - Seaguar, Mono - Seaguar, Hybrid - YoZuri

Hook:  Owner/Gammy

Soft Plastics:  Zoom, Rage, Yamamoto

Hard baits:  SK, 6th Sense

Rods: Spinning-St Croix  Casting-Abu Garcia

Reels:  Kastking

Lines:  Braid-Kastking,  Fluro-Kastking, Mono-Berkley

Leader :  Berkley

Hooks: Gamakatsu

Soft Plastics:  Yum 

Jigs-  Strike King

Hard baits- Strike King

There is No Way I'm falling for this one . . . . .

A-Jay

Whatever is on sale (preferably at a high discount).  

Rods: Loomis, kistler and megabass

Reels: daiwa/shimano

No brand loyalty for line or lures.

Rods: Megabass

Reels: Daiwa/Megabass

Line : Daiwa j braid/big game/sunline 

Hooks: owner or gammy 

the rest is just a big mix of companies that I like. 

Rods- Abu, Dobyns, Okuma.

Reels- Lews.

Lines- braid Power Pro, sunline sniper flouro, sunline defier armillo.

Leader- None.

Hooks- Owner.

Plastics- Netbait, BPS.

Jigs- War Eagle, Siebert.

Hard baits- wide variety.

Rods- G-Loomis and Colmic.

Reels- Shimano

Lines- Berkley Big Game and Sufix 832

Leader- Seaguar AbrazX

Hooks- Gamakatsu and Owner

Plastics- Zoom and Strike King

Jigs- Skinny Bear

Hard Baits- Rapala, Spro and Savage Gear

 

Rods-Dobyns

Reels-Shimano

Line-PP/Seaguar/Big Game

Hooks-Gamakatsu

Plastics-Strike King,Zoom,ZMan

Jigs-Strike King

Hard Baits-Strike King

Rods: St. Croix

Reels: Pflueger

Lines: Braid -Kastking  Fluoro-Seaguar  Mono-Big Game

Hooks: Eagle Claw

Soft Plastics: Strike King, Zman, Zoom

Jigs: Homemade

Hard baits: Strike King, custom painted blanks

Rods: Abu, Berkley, Fenwick, Daiwa, and custom built.

Reels: Abu, Pflueger, and Daiwa

Line: Power pro and Seaguar

Hooks: VMC, Berkley Fusion, Gamakatsu

Hard baits: Strike King, Storm, Berkley, Spro, Booyah

Soft Plastics: Yum, Berkley, Zoom, GYCB, R.I., Strike King

Jig's : Boss

Frogs: Booyah, Spro

Misc. Terminal tackle: Swagger, VMC, Strike King, 6th Sense, Revenge, 

Rods...Fenwick, Phenix

Reels...Shimano 

Line...Sunline, Power Pro 

Hooks...Gammy and Owner 

Plastics...Rage, Reaction Innovations 

 

 

 

 

Mike

23 hours ago, A-Jay said:

There is No Way I'm falling for this one . . . . .

A-Jay

 

You just don't want to be stereotyped A-Jay.

25 minutes ago, Columbia Craw said:

 

You just don't want to be stereotyped A-Jay.

I've got no problem there as it is what it is.

Just can't afford to let the Bait Monkey know there's actually a few I've missed or left out . . . . .

A-Jay

20 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

Just can't afford to let the Bait Monkey know there's actually a few I've missed or left out . . . . .

A-Jay

 

I doubt we have any control over that.  He is like Santa Claus....he knows all. 

Rods: G. Loomis/Dobyns/Megabass 

Reels: Shimano/Diawa

Line: Braid - Smackdown, Floro - Sniper, Mono - Big Game

Hooks: VMC/Gamakatsu 

Soft Plastics: Zoom/SK Rage/RI/Missle Baits/Berkley 

Jigs: Omega/Dirty Jigs/Crockogator/Eakins 

Hard Baits: Megabass/6th Sense/SK/River2Sea/Norman

......who’s this Bait Monkey you speak of?