What to get son in law (Christmas ???)?

[Crestliner2008]

Interesting thread! Look at it this way. You really DO want this venture to succeed, right? Assuming that's the case, go to any Dick's - right now (best deals) - and pick up an inexpensive spin-casting combo.

They have a nice Shakespear Ugly Stick casting rod (Ultra-lite, although it's got some backbone to it) with a closed face spin-casting reel for about $39.00. Decent drag on this Shakespear reel and if you re-line it up with Trilene XL 4# test mono, it should provide many hours of fun fishing.

This will get him into panfish and bass with no problem. Once he hooks into a 2# bass on this rig, he'll be "hooked for life"! And you will have succeeded.

[jarednk]

do a little research on The_Natural before you ask what my "deal" is.

He seems to have gotten a little media coverage lately!!

I think he meant why you brought that up in this thread is completely off topic and who are you and your 4 post to judge? What has he done to you? Better quit while you're ahead and and just hit the unregister button pal

I didn't know you had to have a certain post count to have an opinion. Since you are so "important" with all your posts I better do what you tell me, huh? You have absolutely no idea what he did to me, so go ahead & keep sticking up for the guy

[roadwarrior]

I'm not going back to edit and delete,

but going forwards, OFF TOPIC POSTS

AND ANY REFERENCE TO THEM WILL BE

DELETED.

There are two other threads running on

The_Natural. One is in the Flea Market,

the other in Everything Else. If you want

to comment, go there, not here.

-Kent a.k.a. roadwarrior

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[rubba bubba]

#1 - low end spinning combo but with a rod that is fast, not noodly.  Too many low end combos have noodle-rods.

#2 - go high end rod, high end baitcaster.  He will undoubtedly fail with it and you can take it back from him... A proven method to slip things past the spouse. 

[Ojurb]

id have to agree with the peoepl tha say just get him a run of the mill combo, i just recently got into bass fishing and i ended up getting a shakespearen agility combo, it was the best specd spinning combo i could get for the price, and i think for under $40 it will be a great set up to learn on.

that being said my dad still fishes an Ugly stick that he had from before i was born that thing is 27+ years old and is still his go to rod for ANY freshwater fishing.

when i was buying my combo, i looked at the cabelas website a lot and they have some nicely priced entry level combos that featured their house brand rods, i dont know how good those rods and reels are but the specs seem very good for the price range.

id still recomend the ugly stick combo just cause you dont know what he'll be fishing for in the long run and ive seen my dad ugly stick fished for anything from freshwater trout,bass and catfish, to salt water red snapper, crockers, grouper and we even pulled in a sting ray when i was a kid. my dad currently uses it for red drum fishing in lousiana.