I had some back in June in Westport, but I miss them & Brady's oysters so much.

sorry about all the pictures ive been on here since 09 and never realized there was a fishing picture thread. a little back history been fishing since i can remember i have a passion for salmon/walleye/musky fishing i have had my own boat since i was 16years old all self caught never been on a guided trip/charter before. i live in wisconsin
the musksy below are 50inch/46inch
walleyes are both 27inchs
and the one salmon I'm holding was 27.5lbs









This post was edited by procalling on Dec 1 2018 09:26am

Very nice

so i haven't been fishing in a long time, and all of my gear has always been cheepie stuff.

i'm going to go to my local shop and talk to them, but i'm looking for 2 complete set ups.

baitcasting and spinning

baitcasting
based on what i've seen/read i think i want to be in the $100-$150 range on a reel and $80-$120 on the rod.

for reel
i've been looking at the abu garcia revo sx
for rod
i'm still not sure but i'm looking for a do it all style thing, i don't want to carry 7 rods or spend the money


spinning
still haven't done a lot of reading on what is out there, but from what i have read there are a bunch of good spinning reels for $40-$70 bucks
willing to hear some suggestions
for rod i'm not sure what i'm looking for, but somewhere in maybe the $80-$120 dollar range.
i'm in the same situation as with the bait caster, i want it to be able to do everything or as close to it as possible



thanks for the help.

for spin reels: Shimano all day. I have both the Sedona and the Symmetre, both excellent reels, Symmtre is a little more compact & smoother (Sedona is about $60, Symmetre about $90). My Sedona is like 5 years old still feels like new only maintenance I do is just oil the bail/line roller occasionally really (& and keep it dirt free).

So I ended up walking into my local tackle/bait shop this afternoon and after talking to them for almost 2 hours I walked out with 2 new setups.

For rods I ended up with a Dobyns FURY FR 734C for the bait caster and a Dobyns FURY FR 702SF for the spinning.

For reels I ended up with a Shimano SLX151HG for the bait caster and a Daiwa REVLT2500-XH for spinning.

They both feel very comfortable in my hand and now I just need the rain to calm down a little bit here in the south bay area in california to hit the water.

i've had real bad luck with Daiwa reels, always have broken their bail springs within just months of use. granted these weren't high end Daiwa reels but still. GL