Spring summer trout outfits

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Always subject to change, but I think I've got my rods and reels set for mid spring/early artificial speckled trout season. What's your arsenal look like and what do you have tied on?

Here's mine, allowing for an admittedly obnoxious number (if I'm fishing alone)
of outfits, brand names left out, but feel free to add them if you want:

Light topwater (super spook jr.) casting reel, 12 lb mono 7.5 ft rod. I like mono for most tops because of the forgiveness and confidence I have in it. Topwater is all about distance for me and a 7.5 gets it out there.

Heavy (she dog) topwater. spinning rod 6/20 braid 7.5 ft rod. (doubles as cork rig) I can cast this sucker a long ways, longer than I can effectively walk the dog and maintain good contact on a strike far away with mono. Braid makes it easy to work, but a spinning rod makes my wrist numb frequently. Love/hate relationship, but it's an outstanding search outfit when drifting, plenty of time to stop the boat before getting too close on a long strike. But I'll switch over to the casting rod and mono if given half a chance.

1/4 oz jighead 7 ft medium casting rod with 12 lb fluoro. medium action and length allows me to cover a lot of ground on the hook set in deeper water. Fluoro allows for great sensitivity and the quality brands cast great.

1/8 jighead 12 lb fluoro 6'8" medium light rod (can double as jerkbait rod) great finesse outfit.

Utility 7 ft medium action spinning rod with 6/20 braid.

I've got 30 lb mono leaders on the topwater rods with loop knots on the business end. Mainly to prevent braid from getting into split rings and so I don't have to grab braid when a fish is in the boat, as well as not having to retie as much. 20 or 25 lb fluoro leader on the utility spinner, though I'm not averse to using the same 30 lb mono.