Kistler, Denali and Tatula. They all do a great job.

I have owned Shimano, G loomis, St Croix, dobyns, 13 fishing, Lews , BPS and just bought my first Diawa. I keep coming back to shimano, g loomis and dobyns.

Back in 2012/2013 when Megabass released the Orochi XX riod series I read one of the Tackle Tour reviews on them. Bought one and loved it, added a couple of more. It was not long before they were all I had in my boat. These days I have a few Megabass Destroyers mixed in with a bunch of Orochi XX and Levantes.

Most of mine are Dobyn's Rods with a couple G Loomis, Shimano, Castaway, and All Star for some of my oldies.

I have dobyns and shimano right now. I really like dobyns but I think I might try a falcon rod since I have heard great things about them.

Dobyns
Powell
Shimano
Power Tackle
Loomis
Kisler
Falcon
FXtreme
Megabass
Daiwa
Majorcraft
Duckett
TFO
Lews


Eagle claw crappie rod just because my first rod I began fishing with was an Eagle Claw rod. At that time there wasn't much to choose from at Gibsons.

And a couple of custom builds



Tackle nut.

Sounds like i’m the oddball out here. It doesn’t sound like i fish nearly as intensely as many of you but i like the bang for the buck i get from bass pro rods. I just replaced three 25 year old bps spiral graphite rods with current year Bionic Blades. My trout spinning rods are the BPS airstream ptc. Sensitive rods with excellent backbone. VERY similar to the St Croix panfish rod but less than half the cost. Reels are and have been Shimanos, a couple of 1990’s Citicas and one 1990’s curado all just upgraded with ceramic bearings and carbontex drag washers. If i fished more i might very well upgrade but the bps rods w shimano reels have served me well from pond fishing to lake fork to guerrero in Mexico. Fly rods are a different ballgame but do include a Cabelas Bighorn combo.

Here’s a $4000 starter kit

I do my damage with Snoopy and Barbie rods, those short little stiff mofo’s yank the bass out of the thick stuff!

I have an assortment of Loomis, Dobyns, St. Croix and Falcon.

my latest is a real nice St Croix Avid. Before that I bought two used med-heavys, before that 2 new Dobyns, I also own at least 4 G. Loomis and another Doybns., but the first real rods I bought were Shimano Crucials. Mostly mediums. Like about a dozen of them. Even had them re-furbed after 10 years,

As of late I am moving away from those light rods into more heavier rods since I had my casting shoulder replaced to make up for the poor hook sets with those mediums.

But I do fish with two XLF rods for conventional drop shotting because I hate using a spinning rod. My biggest fish on those light rigs was a 9 LB.

What rods are those?? Love the reels!

Been thinking about getting a few kistler or St. croix. One name that hasn’t been mentioned is McCain, I have 3 or 4 and really like them.

Falcon Low Riders and Cara, St Sroix Avids, and Dobyns but also have 2 old Castaways that I've tried to stop using but seems like I pick them up ever 2nd or 3rd time I fish.