Looking for rod/reel combo onlilne somewhere..

NickPC · Looking for rod/reel combo onlilne somewhere..

Hi,

I am coming down in October to fish for the month and I don't think it would be wise to use my zebco traditional reel. I would like to know of a suggestion of one that is around $100 bucks or so that would do the trick. I don't care to have something great, just something that would get the job done. I seen on basspro shop of a penn spinmaster I think 406? for around $150.00 had great reviews, but thats a little to much. Does anyone have any recommendations for me? Feel free to PM me or just post below.

Thank You
--Nick

NickPC · This one?

http://www.basspro.com/webapp/wcs...03000_151000000_151003000_151-3-0

If anyone could look at this one and the specs and tell me if it looks okay.
Thanks

jewfish

Too small for kings but perfect for reds, flounder, mangrove snapper and spanish macks. This is a better bet for you:

http://www.basspro.com/webapp/wcs...03002_151000000_151003000_151-3-2

robertyb

Got on e-bay and buy a good used Penn 704Z and you will be ready to fish.

NickPC

I can't find many on there I looked already..

blaminack

That one Jewfish posted it a nice one. Fully capable.

Big Mack

What is so special about these 706 reels and all of that? It seems like a waste of money to me. I just buy a normal spinning reel, a pretty bif one to so it can hold some line.

the original pier pest

Apparrentley you have never fished with one before. I have 4 of them and never leave home without them. They are my work horse and I know I can always rely on them to work.

jewfish

The manual pickup is useful when working a bait from the pier for a king. Anywhere else, it's not that great.

Big Mack

well it seems like some peolpe on this sight collect them. I keep on seeing this one guy with a picture of about four of them on his signature.

jewfish

They're great from a pier, I just can't think of too many other useful applications for them. Then again, they are fun to collect and restore but that's another expensive hobby I don't need.

the original pier pest

I have caught many fish from a boat with mine. They work great for sight casting and also free lining a bait out.

stvtackett

at present i only pier fish and they are great for that. when i lived at the beach and owned a boat i fished them also as i don't care for bottom or offshore fishing. alot of boats use them for fly rods for experinced fishers. east coast fishers still use them for surf fishing if they have not upgraded to vs's. with that being said they are useful in more applications than one would think, if they were not they would be plentiful and cheap. collectors are not driving the price up. i don't consider myself a collector, all my reels have been fished this year except the z's.

Nite Legend

706's are also great for ling fishing and once you get used to them you will never want anything else.. It is all I use when fishing for kings or ling, from a boat or pier...

robertyb

Steve has a lot more 706s than me and I have no pictures of my Zs at all yet but here are some of my greenies. I like my Penns.

stvtackett

what are those funny looking wire pieces going arond the rotors on those reels???

Kingfshr

If it swims in saltwater a 706 can catch it. BTW I have 8 myself.

robertyb

stvtackett

right now on pensacola cl there is a couple of 704's under 50 bucks and a half hitch custom cig slinger for 55 bucks...

. sounds like a killer combo...

the original pier pest

But steve it has a bail on it.

stvtackett

if he has to ask us where to find an inexpensive combo, he needs a bail.

blaminack

LOL true! But really oddly enough, a manual seems so easy to me now that I use one, I wish that I had bought some of those stupid looking Surf Casting reels back in the day.

Looking for rod/reel combo onlilne somewhere..

This one?