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Nematocyst
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 Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2015 9:34 am Post subject: What is the best CHEAP fishing equipment you have bought? |
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| What inexpensive piece of fishing equipment has surprised you? Like a 30 dollar rod or reel or non name brand lure etc. |
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BayFly
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Joined: 02 Sep 2014
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Location: Austin/Flour Bluff
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| A small bottle of CorrosionX which I use with a small brush. I bought it over ten years ago and still have most of it left. I wish I could say the same about the spray cans of it I have bought! Otherwise, I consider the Johnson Sprite gold spoons pretty cheap when I think about how many reds I catch on one of them, and how long they last with diligent care. |
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ziacatcher
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Joined: 22 Dec 2008
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Location: The Bluff
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| $59 Cabela's Salt Striker surf spinning reel. Caught everything from hardheads to 60# cobia on it. Only thing I ever do to care for it is wipe it off and spray it with corrosion x. Still have it after 6 years of surf use and it's still cranking in fish. OR WILL WHEN RED TIDE DISSIPATES. |
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RedSniper
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Location: Corpus Christi
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cuzn dave
Flour Bluffian in training
Joined: 06 Mar 2006
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Daiwa BG spinning reels and Uglystiks.
Penn Squidders, Jigmasters and 4/0's.
Garcia 6500
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rodandroll
Full Grown Flour Bluffian
Joined: 17 Jan 2007
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Location: Kerrville, Tx
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Ugly sticks and ambassador (swiss) 5500's and 6500's.
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parrot
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Joined: 04 Mar 2014
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Location: Lewisville, Tx
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Shakespeare tidewater level wind reel. I have had for awhile now.
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cabrego
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Joined: 20 Aug 2014
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Location: McAllen, TX
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| I think a super underrated spinning reel is the Penn Pursuit series. You can find them used pretty cheap and new are only around 50 depending on model size. They put out decent drag and all but they have taken a beating in the surf and kayaks and are doing awesome still. |
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ironmanstan
Exalted Ruler of Flour Bluff
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| cuzn dave wrote: | Daiwa BG spinning reels and Uglystiks.
Penn Squidders, Jigmasters and 4/0's.
Garcia 6500 |
I agree.... I got some of the same gear all but 6500. 
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redfin21
Flour Bluffian in training
Joined: 18 Feb 2009
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Location: new braunfels,tx.
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Alpha Shakespeare 10 and 12 foot surf rods. Quantum 60x spinning reels at wal mart under 30 bucks. Berkeley lightning light tackle rods and ugly stick rods. All have lasted me years and doesn't break the bank.
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Cricket
Member White Shrimper Boot Club
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Location: North Padre Island, Texas
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| Zepco 33 Reel & Rod combination |
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kweber
Full Grown Flour Bluffian
Joined: 08 Mar 2006
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Location: Hondo
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| Cricket wrote: | | Zepco 33 Reel & Rod combination |
man.. that combo, popping cork, a few live shrimp and enthusiastic skipjacks in the surf one afternoon was a HOOT!
little tarpons they was...
just hold them away to un-hook 
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kweber
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Location: Hondo
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| Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2015 4:15 pm Post subject: Re: What is the best CHEAP fishing equipment you have bought |
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| Nematocyst wrote: | | What inexpensive piece of fishing equipment has surprised you? Like a 30 dollar rod or reel or non name brand lure etc. |
well in 1967 we thought a tri-hull 120hp 4cyl I/O was pretty trick...
anyways, what-ever rods and reels we had and hooties in the Aransas Channel was THE ticket for Spanish Makeral...
we filled that 16ftr...
a few even jumped into it.
I was 10 and that is probably still one of the best fishing trips I've ever been on...
of course time embellishes...
we still talk about that day.
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chapcat54
Horse Mullet
Joined: 15 Jun 2015
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| Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2015 7:58 pm Post subject: Re: What is the best CHEAP fishing equipment you have bought |
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| Nematocyst wrote: | | What inexpensive piece of fishing equipment has surprised you? Like a 30 dollar rod or reel or non name brand lure etc. |
Anybody remember this reel? The Garcia-Mitchell 300
 GM300_1_cr by [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/95952366@N02/][/url], on Flickr
I bought one around 1972. I was still fishing with it into the 90's just keeping it cleaned and lubed. By todays standards, it was not that smooth, but the darn thing was practically indestructible. |
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matagordamudskipper
Finger Mullet
Joined: 20 Jan 2008
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Location: bait camp
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Fish whistles and a Bic  |
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