Product Description : 60-size reel on 10-ft 2-piece med/hvy rod Just got back from the OBX. I had about 8 fishing combos with me but I ended up using this one most of the time. I bottom fished in the surf with 3 oz pyramid sinker and this rod handled the cast very well. I put 20lb mono on it. It is hard to me to say how far I was able to cast,I never expected much from this combo. I am very, very impressed. This combo has excellent price/performance ratio. I plan to use it for catfish and carp sometimes. I ordered two of these for surf fishing in Kitty Hawk Nc. The rods aren't amazing quality but they will throw a rig pretty far once you get your technique down. The reels worked well at first, at the time of writing this review one rod/reel combo is still working fine, but one has failed already. The gearing that keeps the reel from reversing has stripped. At the time it was being used by my 12 year old daughter.They have caught us a few puppy drum and some spot.We haven't fished these rods hard at all, a few hours in the morning and a few at night during high tide, only for two days straight at this point. We're tossing bottom rigs with 2 or 3 ounce pyramid sinkers on them, nothing big.Not sure what I expected for the price, I always regret buying lower priced stuff and this is no different. I expect the other reel to fail soon or to have something go wrong with the rod.I will be returning these as soon as I get back to PA and find a big enough box.Update:The second reel failed on me on my final day of fishing. It suffered the same fate as the other one and has a really bad grinding sensation when turning the handle. These reels never touched water or had sand dumped in them, The rods were either in my hands or in the sand spike.The rods themselves seem to be a great value though, had I not bought them as combo sets I would just keep the rods. They are snappy, strong, and responsive to nibbles. Using them I was able to throw bait and tackle a long distance into the surf(even though most fish were 15 feet from shore, ha!)
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