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New to fishing,which rod?.

  • 19-05-2011 7:57pm
    #1
    bassy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,580 ✭✭✭


    Fishing newbie here I have a trout rod and reel.
    Am looking for a good rod and reel for spinning and dead bate for pike/salmon.
    Any places in Ireland or online where I could get a good deal?,any advice would be great.


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  • #2
    twomeys
    Registered Users Posts: 142 ✭✭twomeys


    Hi,

    Had you a budget in mind. As you can imagine if I said good rod and reel I might mean 500 euro, the guy next to me might mean a 100 euro!!

    You will get a very nice spinning rod 10ft or 11ft with a lietime warranty for less than 100 euro and you could pay 50 - 100 for a good reel. But as I say it all depends. The next jump up would be 150 - 200 and the reel seat would be better, more than likely aluminium and the cork a higher quality.

    So if you can try and pin yourself to a budget cause there are literally hundreds of rods and reels to choose from. I can give you info on what I stock personally and these would be available in loads of tackle shops all over the country. Ill give what ever info I can without it meaning Im advertising as its against board rules.

    Regards,

    Eoghan


  • #3
    bassy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,580 ✭✭✭bassy


    Hi eoghan thanks for the reply,I suppose as a newbie to fishing I would be going for sumthing along the line of €100 for reel and rod.
    can you pm me some info on your fishing gear cheers.


  • #4
    MarcinG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 356 ✭✭MarcinG


    bassy wrote: »
    Hi eoghan thanks for the reply,I suppose as a newbie to fishing I would be going for sumthing along the line of €100 for reel and rod.

    I guess you will have problems finding rod for dead bait (rather strong carp type) and spinning (i mean it depends on spinning type as 2 different things are using small spinner and dead roach). Some sort of balance will be strong spinning ( max casting weight around 60-80g) and 4000 reel.
    I would rather go for good rod and cheap reel than compromise both.
    I have penn 2XS spinn (bought for around 75e in Cork Dublin prices over 100e) 30-60g and it works fairly ok even for short range dead baiting.
    From cheapier ones you could try to use a mitchell universe ( i had it only for couple of days - won it somewhere, but guess it should do and they were around 50e AFAIR). Most of spinning reels in 50e budget should do the job for at least 1-2 years. (i had 2 reels from lidl - cheap plastic ones were 7e or so and it took mi 2 years sea use to destroy them).

    another option may be to look at sales in some internet shops (with little research i just found few good looking abu garcia spinning rods for under 30e + dead bait wychwood combo for 90e - you would be only slightly above budget of 100e.


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