I am sure this has been talked about a lot, but how many do you have in the boat or bank each day?  beside the cost factor, how many is enough? I figure you can only cast one lure at a time.

 

My daily set up is 7 in the boat:

 

baitcasting

1- XH XF with 40#braid for junk fishing

2- MH F with 20# braid and flouro leader for swim jig and Texas rig swim worms

1- M F with 20# braid and flouro leader for finesse--shakey head and drop shotting

 

1 MH Mod with 15# flouro for chatterbait/cranking

1 M Mod with 10# for small swimbaits/square bills

 

Spinning

1 M Fast  for dock skipping a wacky worm.

 

In my boat 7 or 8 . Jon boat 5 or 6 . Canoe 2 , Bank fishing one .

 

When I’m in my boat alone, I’ll usually have 7 or 8 casting rigs and 1-3 spinning rigs on me. If someone is fishing in the boat with me or I’m in someone else’s boat, I may limit that to 5 casting and 1 spinning rig. Maybe. 

If I’m on the bank, I usually have 3 casting rigs. If I’m wading a creek or river, I’ll have one spinning set up. 

16 minutes ago, BJCas said:

I am sure this has been talked about a lot...

 

It has. Probably a half a dozen times  year I'd bet...

I'll play again - I've got 16 rigs total

 

Boat: 6 casting, 4 spinning

Shore: 1 casting, 2 spinning

Panfish: 3 spinning

 

Sometimes I'll take the casting shore rig on the boat when after bass, the panfish rigs are boat or shore depending on where I'm targeting them from.

The real answer is 5. But I usually pack 6-7, 8 when I think I might want to catch panfish. Truth told, I could usually only take 3 combos and catch the same quantity of fish. But which 3? Since I'm in a kayak, having a rod for each technique is helpful. I have a reel getting worked on right now. When it comes back, I won't have the correct rod for whatever technique I want to use it for. Thus, I will need another rod soon.

The answer is X.

 

X = the number I have + 1

15 minutes ago, Choporoz said:

The answer is X.

 

X = the number I have + 1

I'm sure QED is familiar with n+1, or some iteration...  

6 minutes ago, Deleted account said:

I'm sure QED is familiar with n+1, or some iteration...  

 

Induction proof.  Elegant stuff.  But when it comes to bike racing or fishing stuff, the correct answer is always N+1.

Usually take five on my kayak. Could probably trim it down to my glx 852s, nrx 873 crr, and imx pro 854 cbr but what’s the fun in that?? 

9 - 14 if I take 3 or 4 big swimbait rigs. 12 - 14 if I  don't take my big swimbait rigs.

The storage on my boat is small so I don’t carry more than 4 rods. Stepping on a rod is no bueno. 

As always a co angler in a boat I always bring 6. 
If not 1 is enough 

 

 

 

Mike

 

 

 

 

Mike

My boat is equipped to hold 6 rods.

 

Depending on lake, it's either four bait-casters and two spinning rods, or three of each.  I want to be able to secure all rods when traveling and on the water.

 

 

When I fish in my brother's Lund, I take three rods, again, so I can secure every rod when traveling and on the water. 

I have 15 rod tubes in my boat, so I limit myself to 15. I decided if I go over that, I’m probably over-thinking things and I fish better when I keep it simple, straightforward. 

Like I said, 18 set ups... shoulld be all I really ever need ?

Twenty might be nice... 

Regards, -The Bait Monkey

However many your finances and storage allow you to have is the only right number or another way to look it is x+1=# total rods where x=number of current rods.

 

Conventional I usually carry 6-7

Fly rod is usually 3-4

 

I just got a new kayak so we will see how it works for rod storage.

I have 21. I like technique specific though. And I like to collect things. 

Funny how up to my early 30's I only had one rod and reel.  Now I have 15-20 but really use 2-3 a lot.  My three musky rods only get used 3-5 days a year.

If I leave a rod at home, it will be the one I need that day. 
 

1 to 4. If I have too many rods, sometimes I don’t spend enough time with any one bait to figure out what’s working. I only fish one lake and I usually have what I need.

Sometimes I just take 1 spinning rod with an underspin with a grub or paddletail and don’t worry about anything.

probably one from each manufacturer in each action and power.

I bank fish exclusively, and usually carry 2 casting (a M/F and a MH/F) and a ML spinning rod. MH has braid so I use that for topwaters and bottom contact baits, And use the M with 14lb mono for all my moving baits (chatterbaits, lipless, spinnerbaits, squarebills, swim jigs etc). ML spinning handles all my weightless and finesse stuff.

 

That being said, I don’t fish squarebills often and my M rod has a guide missing, so when I replace it I’ll probably get another MH for my moving baits. I like the castability of the M power but it leaves much to be desired in the “backbone” department especially with spinnerbaits and chatterbaits in the grass infested ponds i fish.

1 hour ago, Choporoz said:

The answer is X.

 

X = the number I have + 1

This should be marked as the solution. Well done Choporoz. ?