Hello I have been recently looking for an offshore and inshore saltwater spinning rod (If Possible) but I can't seem to find one. I want to pair this rod with a Daiwa BG5000. I have a budget of $50 so nothing to fancy. Thanks

3 hours ago, alphawolf said:

Hello I have been recently looking for an offshore and inshore saltwater spinning rod (If Possible) but I can't seem to find one. I want to pair this rod with a Daiwa BG5000. I have a budget of $50 so nothing to fancy. Thanks

Where will you be fishing, and what are you trying to catch?

You'll need to be more specific about technique and species you plan on targeting.  For example, you can handle most redfish on the flats with a bass rod.  You take an overslot red and try to catch him from a pier, that bass rod will be underpowered just about every time, not to mention you're no longer concerned about casting distance, acuracy, fatigue, etc. since you'll be dropping bait straight down for the most part.

I have a spinnfisher V 4500 on a Ugly Stik inshore select and it balances and feels great. It's $60.

Take a look at the Penn Battle combos or just the Penn rods.

The Calico Jack rods are really good for the price.

G. Loomis GLX PR844S/ #40 Smackdown with #25 leader.

 

Inshore and Offshore are hard to fit into one rod, like bigbassin said, for most inshore fish a bass rod would work fine. That Daiwa is a good size versatile reel if you are only going to have one saltwater reel, but casting it all day is gonna wear you out if your using artificials. I like Ugly stik, Calico Jack is good too in that same price range 6' 6" medium heavy or even a 7' would cover a wide range of possibilities. May be a bit under powered for some, and a bit over powered for others...but a wide range of just right.

 

Caught this one on an Ugly stik inshore select 7' Medium light, wouldn't have been my fish choice but since trout was our target species its what I had in my hand and it got the job done

I use GX2s and the Ugly Stik Elites for saltwater stuff. Both work great. A MH GX2 with a 5000 on it should be able to handle pretty much anything you manage to hook up with. A little heavy for all day casting though. Especially with that large of a reel on it. 

With a 5000 size, and trying to do both off and in-shore

you will probably want something in the 7' range and 

MH. The thing with saltwater is you never know what

you'll catch and what size.

 

Me? I do inshore and MH is my heaviest rod. I normally

use ML and M spinning rods with 1000 size reels. I'm not

expecting something too massive, though I could hook

a big striper or red. Being in a kayak, I can move around.

 

If I keep doing saltwater (which I plan to do), I plan to add

a 3000 size at some point.

 

Ugly Stiks are solid, especially if you plan on doing a lot of

live bait fishing. You don't really need something super

sensitive. 

I have a 6500 spinfisher that is dedicated to one thing for inshore...bull reds in the fall, anything else is either a 2500 or 3000