Shopping for a fishing outfit can be a confusing experience. You'll see rods and reels of all sizes, colors, with no explanation as to which rod goes with which reel or what outfit is intended for what purpose. Your selection depends on a combination of factors: the size of the fish you expect to catch, the size of the baits you'll be using and the type of cover in which you'll be fishing.
With a light spinning outfit and 6-pound line, you could land a 20-pound pike in unobstructed water. But you wouldm't be able to toss a heavy lure with such a light outfit and, in heavy weeds.
If you do many different kinds of fishing, you'll probably need several different outfits, check out the listing below for your style of fisting.
- Spincasting gear is often the choice of beginning anglers, because its inexpensive and almost impossible to backlash. The enclosed spool prevent loops of line from falling off the reel and causing snarls.
- Spinning gear is the best choice for casting light lures. It also excels for distance casting because line flows easily off the open-face-reel.
- Flycasting gear is needed to cast heavy fly line, which is turn, propels the nearly weight-less fly. Picking up and casting heavy line requires a long rod, usually from 8 to 9 feet in length.
- Trolling outfits have the large-capacity reels needed for long-line trolling or downrigger fishing. The reels are not designed for casting. Trolling rods my be short and stiff for trolling heavy baits, or long and flexible for downrigger fishing.
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