Wayyy more rods than reels.  A lot of my reels see a variety of rods given the time of year.  Ice fishing, Stripers, salmon, trout, bass...

41 minutes ago, Darren. said:

I still have one!  

 

Was part-n-parcel of my spinning-is-fine period

of adjustment. Needed the money then, too.

Two is bettter than 1! ?. I hear ya man.

 

I’m never giving up mines though! ?

i prefer to have a matching number of rods and reels. But I do like to keep some slightly mismatched combos so I always have an excuse to buy another. I pared them down to only the ones I used a while back. But I still have an UL reel on a light rod. Hmmm...

In my opinion, one without the other is pretty useless. If I had the money to have spare anything, it would be complete combos of what I needed for whatever situation I faced. If I had the time I'd like to have to fish, then I might have an extra reel or rod to experiment some. Nothing against those who would do it differently. I'm a firm believer in fishing with what I feel comfortable with and you should too. However I or you choose to do it. In the end, it's the fisherman that catches the fish, not necessarily the gear(although gear helps). ?