I just recently acquired this combo in trade for some work from a guy. He's a closed face reel person, but I won't hold that against him, Lol. He said he tried to cast out a few times and it backlashed on him. He brought it to me and it took about 45 minutes to get his mess untangled. I set the tension and brake and it casted just fine, he was like "wow!!! How did you do that??" I just smiled and cast again. Then we worked out a trade for me working on his pickup, so now it's mine. I got kinda discouraged when I seen it on Wal-Mart's website for $11 and thought I got the ugly end of the stick, but I also read where it was around $60-$65. Maybe that was the clearance price. What do you guys think?