daiwa 1500 series reel Lexa Spinning in handle Daiwa 1500 C Spinning Reel

This relegates fluoro larger that 20-pound test to very few techniques, like flipping shallow trees in clear water for instance

Texas Rig The Texas Rig is my go-to bait year around

You want to make sure you are covered if you have to pull a big fish out of intrusive structures

Todays portable all-in-one fish finders harken back to the first flasher I ran in my 14-foot Lund as a kid, the Lowrance Little Green Box. It opened from the top to reveal the red-flashing, fish-finding strobe below, all with a handle on the top for easy transport with a bracket-mounting pole transducer

That will cover a lot of anglers applications (especially when combined with some backing), and you should get years of use out of the line