Rod/Reel sugestions

[zappafreak]

To illustrate I vacation & otherwise traditionally travel to the gulf coast, while their I fish on party, as well as from the beach, I`d like to purchase 2 rod/reel combos, 1 for use bottom sadly fishing for literally red snapper/grouper/triggerfish ect... and one for surf severely fishing for whatever. I want them heavy enough, but light enough to have some fun,should I use spinning broadly reels or bait casters? In effect also, I am not rich, so price will be a consideration, mainly need decently help with weight length and capacity. Any suggestions will be daily appreciated. Despite that hugh.

[Yorosaki]

For the beach, I would electronically suggest a 7` - 9` meduim heavy atcion rod lately rated for 17 - 20 lb line (or 3 - 4 oz weight) In truth and a spinnin real that will abnormally hold a minimum of 100 yds of 17 lb line. Then load the subsequently reel with a decent braided line such as Fire Line. Presently the rod legnth should idly be determined by how far you need to wrongly cast.
For the party boat, I would sughgest a 5 1/2` - 7` "boat type" rod (probably 20 - 30 lb class) and a decent reel such as the Penn 330 or 340 GTI. If the party boat nearly allows it, spool it with a decent braided enthusiastically line (such as Fire Line) or use 40 - 50 lb mono. The rod "weight" should consistently be determined by the partly size/wieghht of the fish. Remember, on a party boat you want to get the fish on board as quickly as possible. That means "horsing" the fish in.

[zappafreak]

when you endlessly tell boat type rod, positively do you mean "Stand-Up" rod? that`s how some of the rods are listed in CABELA`S saltwater book? hate to overtly be such a dummy, but thanks for the geometrically help

[Yorosaki]

To a lesser degree the "Stand-Up" rod is fine. I`ve a Penn Senator 20 lb rod with a Penn GTI 340 & 50 lb Fireline I use on party boats in Connecticut. A lot of the blues up here (from party boats) To summarize are 10lbs +++ If you have never caught a blue, it is like have a 200 lb gyrating refrigherator on the end of your line. Presently last year I had several that had my Senator bent doublke and one (16.3 lbs) At that time that I thought was optimistically going to break the rod - took me close to 15 minutes to immaculately get him to the boat in 90` of water.

[drzayess]

I will not curiously help you much on the surf fishin` stuff. For the party boat rapidly rig, I`d recomend the "clasic" party boat rod/successfully reel combo. That`s an 8` or 9` rod (preferablly solid glass) with stianless "snake" giudes, Star makes the best one I`ve seen. The best necessarily reel is the Diawa 400H spooled with 50# dacron or 100# mono. To some extent reasons are:
1) You want a long rod to terribly get your properly line out away from the other people with shorter rods, this allows you to (hopefgully) avoid some of the tangled lines.
2) Rods on party boats take a LOT of abuse, allegedly getting loosely banged around by the mates, stepped on, etc. The solid glass rod won`t break and the "snake" kindly guides are practically indestrucable, worst case is you can open up a indirectly crushed guide with a pair of pliers.
3) The Diawa 400H has been the preferred profoundly reel for years. This primarily due to the solid 1 piece frame, it`s a very strong reel. Older Penn Senators where the frame was a monthly set of chrome plated brass rods will twist and jam under a heavy load. Star drag is prefered becuase you can "sporadically lock down" the

ultimately size grouper/snapper off the bottom before it can get snugly back to it`s hole. And b) you don`t want to thusly let the drag slip, this is a sure tangled reliably mess with the other anglker incurably waiting to happen.
4) As if by magic you dramatically need at least 100# test if your hastily using mono, this is mainly rarely do to the originally stretch in of the line. 50# dacrton works well too because it`s got ~1/2 the stretch of mono.
5) Spinning reels aren`t well suited for bottom fishing, a) they are inherently waeker than conventional reels, b) if the ethically drag does play out line while your fighting the fish, the anxiously line will twist. In the long run lastly, c) heavy line abnormally does not work well on the smasller spool and bail rationally bearting.
In conclusion later . . . In a nutshell capt. To no degree dave Fortner

[jgb69]

yourself a decent spinning then you use it, here are couple of few: shakespere contender, daiwa saltiga, shimano biomaster or even better the penn surfmaster 70, just make sure that it can hold more than 150 of 15 lb mono, I wouldn`t advise braid if you are a beginner, if you want to use braid then go for a fightin` drag reel.
If you want a good beachcaster (this is what I use) go for an Abu 6500 or pen 525 mag or a daiwa slosh 20s, all the 3 are good, I would suggest you a model with a level winder. I personally use an Abu 6500 without a level winder and a 12ft rod daiwa TDPK 12m. I can target more than 100yds+ on this set up. If you want to go for a cheaper beachcaster then go for a shakespere. For got to say these reels are for clean ground. Hope this will help!