EP 344: Why Your Spinning ROD Should Always Cost More Than Your Reel

Salt Strong Fishing

Joe Simonds

Bassfishing, Wilderness, Saltstrong, Sports, Fishingtips, Fishing, Fishstrong, Redfish, Saltwaterfishing

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🗓️ 16 September 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Did you know that your inshore spinning rod should almost always cost more than your reel? Also, that most combos are NOT a good investment (unless you're buying them for kids).

Listen in as we break down one of the biggest misconceptions about fishing (that you need a fancy reel to succeed), when in reality, it's the rod that is doing all of the work.

Enjoy and tight lines.

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0:00.0	This fishing, it's in my soul.
0:05.0	Welcome to the Salt Strong Podcast.
0:08.0	Disrupting fishing entertainment as you know it.
0:11.0	Prepare to laugh.
0:12.0	Prepare to get to know fishing legends in a whole new and unfiltered way.
0:17.0	And on occasion, you might even learn a thing or two about fishing.
0:20.0	Here's your host, Joe Simons.
0:23.0	Like Diamonds.
0:25.0	Hello, Salt Strong Nation, Joe Simons.
0:28.0	Like Diamonds, we are back again.
0:31.0	That was my fishing rod arm there.
0:33.0	Talking about rods versus reels.
0:35.0	This comes up all the time.
0:37.0	We've done some discussions about this.
0:40.0	We thought we were pretty clear.
0:42.0	But we have many members that said,
0:44.0	Oh, man, you guys need to reiterate that.
0:46.0	And I didn't even think about that.
0:47.0	I don't know why I keep spending more on my reel than my rod.
0:50.0	So we're going to do this.
0:52.0	This will be kind of a brief one.
0:53.0	And we're going to highlight all the reasons why you should almost
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