Casting out spinners and the like

[MuskieBait]

(10-08-2013 03:22 PM)OldTimer Wrote:  As in most things on this planet - the most expensive fishing gear does not always necessarily make it the "best".

Also - Best for you, may be worst for me.. etc.

Sonicsink ---- another thought - if you can "test drive" a friends, or relatives, gear that you think you might like........... and go from there.

Kinda like getting a 1000 Shimano Stella for crappie fishing...really? A $500 reel for crappie? It is absolutely THE BEST reel out there...but not THE BEST reel for the application...

All hype and marketing...no brains...

When it comes to most things, once you reach a certain threshold, you get very little marginal return in performance for exponentially greater cost.

Reels in the $30-50 range are very serviceable for most freshwater application...and rods, even the UglyStik at $40 price point, are very serviceable. A lot of gear heads will talk about lightness, bearings, carbon, magnesium...yada, yada, yada...but if you are only talking about freshwater fish, not a lot of that matters...and for the casual anglers, 0.5oz or even 2oz difference in reel weight is negligible at best. (Heck, I was catching rivermouth salmon with a 4500 Shimano Baitrunner that weights 22.2oz. A lot of guys will scoff at that...but you use whatever that will get the job done...and if the reel is heavy, go work out your puny arms and weak wrists )

I still tout the Pflueger Trion GX-7 rod and reel combo. For a reasonable price, you are getting a very good bang for the buck combo that has lasted me over 10 years.

Good gear, to a certain extent, will help you with better casts, better sensitivity on bites, better action on lures, better drag for playing fish, etc...but at the base of it, it is the anglers and the way they fish with their gear that will dictate who catches the most fish.