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Back Beach · 10-25-2006, 02:01 PM

hmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Lets see here. Go with a one piece rod, and buy a roof rack if possible. You may need to push the budget up to $500 if you want top shelf. If its gotta be $300,I fished for a lot of years with a custom lamiglas BSB 1203M and a newell 229 reel. Should cost you less than $300 for a rod and reel combo like what I used, which leaves $$ for the roof rack. You might look at both the Newell and ABU reels, depending on what you like. Either way, I would go with a conventional setup, and you can fit 300 yards of 65# power pro line on either of the reels, which I would also recommend for jigs and eels. There are some decent 2 piece rods out there, I just can't come up with one off the top of my head, but they do exist.

10-25-2006, 02:01 PM	#7
Back Beach Respect your elvers iTrader: (0) Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: franklin ma Posts: 3,368	hmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Lets see here. Go with a one piece rod, and buy a roof rack if possible. You may need to push the budget up to $500 if you want top shelf. If its gotta be $300,I fished for a lot of years with a custom lamiglas BSB 1203M and a newell 229 reel. Should cost you less than $300 for a rod and reel combo like what I used, which leaves $$ for the roof rack. You might look at both the Newell and ABU reels, depending on what you like. Either way, I would go with a conventional setup, and you can fit 300 yards of 65# power pro line on either of the reels, which I would also recommend for jigs and eels. There are some decent 2 piece rods out there, I just can't come up with one off the top of my head, but they do exist. Last edited by Back Beach; 10-27-2006 at 11:00 AM..
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