Ultralight combo

[Drew1233]

kingfisher, when you say reasonable what do you mean?

[roadrunner]

good and cheap = oxymoron

[kentuckykingfisher]

http://www.abugarcia.com/products/re...l/cardinal-stx

http://mobile.walmart.com/ip/Shakesp...Combo/10298924

I own one of the Shakespeare's as well. It's a little cheaper but still reliable. I just like the Abu garcia b.c how smooth it feels. Just my preference though.

[Drew1233]

http://www.abugarcia.com/products/re...l/cardinal-stx

http://mobile.walmart.com/ip/Shakesp...Combo/10298924

I own one of the Shakespeare's as well. It's a little cheaper but still reliable. I just like the Abu garcia b.c how smooth it feels. Just my preference though.

I already own a cardinal and use it for Floyd's fork smallmouth. Never had any problems with mine. I'm looking more for a rod reel combo to use for either standing on a bank using a wax worm and a bobber or sitting in a boat crappie fishing.

[walleyemaniac]

I have a Shimano 2500 w/Quickfire that I bought at a yard sale in 1986 for five bucks. It outlasted several rods. The last being a Berkley Lightnin' Rod 5' UL. The top blank came shooting out after a 30" Northern shredded my line at the boat, and I then frustratingly tried to whip him in his dumbass face!!! Serves me right I suppose..... Its at the bottom of Opasatika Lake in Northern Ontario.

That reel is now on a Medium 6.5' that I use for bass in the back yard pond. If it gets a lil noisy, I just dunk it in the water!!!! Shimano's older reels last and last and last, and the Lightnin Rods at about 30$ are hard to beat, and the two piece are great for trekking through trails.

[sweetwater]

good and cheap = oxymoron

Buy something quickly and to a high standard, it will not be cheap.
Buy something cheaply and quickly, it will not be to a high standard.
Buy something to a high standard and cheaply, you will not find it quickly.

[kentuckykingfisher]

Buy something quickly and to a high standard, it will not be cheap.
Buy something cheaply and quickly, it will not be to a high standard.
Buy something to a high standard and cheaply, you will not find it quickly.

Haha I like that sweetwater. I might use those lines from time to time if ya don't mind 😉

[sweetwater]

Haha I like that sweetwater. I might use those lines from time to time if ya don't mind 

I don't mind at all. I altered the good, fast, cheap project management triangle to come up with that so I can't take any of the credit for originality.

[Drew1233]

Buy something quickly and to a high standard, it will not be cheap.
Buy something cheaply and quickly, it will not be to a high standard.
Buy something to a high standard and cheaply, you will not find it quickly.

Very true