Hello,

First I wanted to say how amazingly helpful this forum has been with getting into fishing again! I'm at a point now where I want to get rid of some lower end rods and reels and just have 3 or 4 good ones. Some background:

• I live in NE PA and fish smaller lakes. Bank fishing

• go for LM bass, crappie , and a pike here and there..never on purpose of course.

• I currently am keeping a dob. Fury 734 with Shimano curado dc. ; A Lew's Mach crush combo. 

• I fish jerk baits, ploppers, frogs, senkos, n spinning baits. I'm trying to get into jigs and got some g2s arkeys and swim jigs from the recommended site here. 

• I need 2 more rods n reels. I'm looking for recommendations on action n size to go with my current keepers. I was looking at maybe another curado dc and a daiwa tatula sv for lighter stuff?

• what lines should I go with? I have 14# mono on curado and #12 floro on Lew's.  

 

As always any help is much appreciated. Thanks! 

 

Oh and budget is around $500 for the other 2 setups. 

A medium heavy and a medium power casting rods with fast or moderate fast actions, and a medium power spinning rod with a fast action are always my first three choices and will accomplish the most for you while bank fishing. Once you add a fourth setup, it's my opinion that you go to one extreme or the other: a heavy power casting rod with a fast action or a medium light power spinning rod with a fast action; depending entirely on where you fish, what your target is, and what you like to do. In your case, based on location and species, I'd go with a ML/F spinning setup. All in 6'6" to 7'. Reel gear ratio and sizes is entirely your choice.

I have another crush spinning setup that I think covers that spectrum that I use while kayak fishing. Any particular rod recommendations like. Sierra 7'3 or something similar? The various actions and sizes are what's the most confusing to me. I feel like the medium heavy7-7'3 with fast action covers pretty much everything, is that right?  Should I just grab 2 more fury's n have one for frogs n jigs and the other for spinners and ploppers? 

A 703C and a 734C  would fill your needs pretty dang well

 

When I stay within tackle I'm familiar with, it comes to around $350 per outfit (Before bargain-hunting)

> Dobyns Sierra 703 Casting Rod (7.0 ft - MH - F) - $170

> Shimano Curado 200K - $180

 

Personally, I'd avoid the 'micro' model rod

As for left-hand/right-hand and Gear Ratio, those are personal preferences

 

Roger