Anyone know of any sites where i can get some good cheap gear?

Be more descriptive on a price range.

Go to Kmart and WalMart, Sports Authority etc.  This time of year you can find discounts on fishing gear since winter is not big for fishing sales for them.  I bought a Shimano FX series baitcaster rod for $9. There was a nice Shimano FX series spinning outfit with a 4000 series reel for $13.50.  You can't get any cheaper new.  Ebay is a good place, but you end up haveing to pay shipping charges that can eat up your good deal.

Yard sales, estate sales are another good place.

I live in scranton, PA.. by cheap i mean FAIR pricing so ebay is pretty much out due to shipping charges... The k-mart and wal mart in my area dont have wide variety of stuff..i have a dicks and Gander Mnt in my area also.. so i think to rephrase my question would be what are some good fishing lures to buy?

Gander mountain and dicks have very good sales. Also if your patience there are deals that spring up that people here usually tell us about. I bought an avid at gander mountain for 99$ couple months ago. Reeds had a sale bought another 97$ avid. Shimano has rebate offers out now also. As for lures look in bargain bins. If you use plastics check ***.

so i think to rephrase my question would be what are some good fishing lures to buy?

I think Storm, rapala and manns products are all pretty reasonably priced for hard baits. Yes you are gonna pay up to 6.00 +/- a lure but you need to buy and try and gain confidence in the lures you try. Here are a couple you might wanna try.

1. Storm Chugbug

2. Manns Baby1-

3 Rapala Shad-rap

4.Rapala X-rap

There are some specific suggestions in this thread and I think it might help you overall:

http://www.bassresource.com/bass_fishing_forums/YaBB.pl?num=1180501296

This is another:

http://www.bassresource.com/bass_fishing_forums/YaBB.pl?num=1182371999/0

Buy one of every Bandit 100 200 and 300 crankbait that Walmart sells.  Also, Kmart often has great price cuts on lures this time of year.  Dicks is OK, but Gander Mountain is awesome, at least the Winchester VA store is.  Gander frequently has 'Hot Buys'.  Currently my store is selling Power Bait for $1.99, a limited supply of Zoom Soft Plastics for $.99, and a couple of others.  Plus, Gander supposedly matches or beats any other advertised price (not sure if they still do that).  Also, when at Gander, look closely, because a lot of times they will have one or two colors of lures red tagged.  Usually these are all snapped up pretty quickly, but I got some odd colored Rapalas, Bagleys, and Sisson lures for more than half off.  BPS does this too, but I don't know where there is one near you.  

If you live in PA, go to the Harrisburg Sportsman show that they have every February.  You can grab a bunch of lures cheap there.  

Thanks for the info guys, i guess a big part of my problem is i have only ever really used Nightcrawlers, live bait of boo-ya lures.. ive caught my fair share of nice fish but never experimented with anything new baitwise....might be why i havent landed the big one yet!

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