Lamiglas LCS9MS reel

[CJ3a]

I just bought a LCS9MS surf rod. 9foot, 12-30lb line 1/2 to 3oz medium power.  What reel and line should I be looking at?   I never own a pen reel before and would like to give one a try. 

[Booner]

Penn  slammer 6000 with berkley X9

[MGHunter66]

Go with a Diawa BG and Suffix braid, it’ll outlive you

[CJ3a]

Bailess? 

[vdep217]

Ask your self what you will do with it.  I spend alot of time chest deep in water for stripers so a vanstaal was r8ght for me.  With that said the suggestions above are great I've had great luck eith shimano saragosa as well

[hammer4reel]

Penn spinfisher 7 live liner  4500

you can use it to throw lures as well as bait fish if you wanted to .

30 # Berkley X9  for the line 

 

 

[CJ3a]

4500 or 6000? Seems like a big difference in size. When I looked at the penn site.

Edited March 2 by CJ3a

[hammer4reel]

10 minutes ago, CJ3a said:

4500 or 6000? Seems like a big difference in size. When I looked at the penn site.

4500

6500 is 10 ounces heavier , won’t balance as well on that rod 

Edited March 2 by hammer4reel

[hammer4reel]

Fisherman’s source has a huge sale tomorrow from 10-2.

take your rod there and put each reel on it abc see how it feels .

probably as good a price as can be had is usually at that sale 

[Codaboy]

1 hour ago, CJ3a said:

I just bought a LCS9MS surf rod. 9foot, 12-30lb line 1/2 to 3oz medium power.  What reel and line should I be looking at?   I never own a pen reel before and would like to give one a try. 

Van staal vs100 with suffix 832 30 pound braid

[flukebelly]

Unless you’re going to store your reel in salt water and throw it in the sand daily, a Van Stall is a bit overkill and they feel like reeling a cement mixer. 

I would second the Diawa BG series and i have had nothing but great experiences with the Diawa Saltist MQ reels. 

Anything in the 4000-5000 series reels from Penn, Diawa, or shimano will work.

tons of guys who fish the cape cod canal swear by the Shimano Saragossa reels.

[flukebelly]

You should check out the saltwater expo in 2 weeks at the raritan convention center. Try them all first.

[Swamprat]

Van staal 150

Shimano 4000 size. 

Suffix 20lb braid. 

[vdep217]

2 hours ago, flukebelly said:

Unless you’re going to store your reel in salt water and throw it in the sand daily, a Van Stall is a bit overkill and they feel like reeling a cement mixer. 

I would second the Diawa BG series and i have had nothing but great experiences with the Diawa Saltist MQ reels. 

Anything in the 4000-5000 series reels from Penn, Diawa, or shimano will work.

tons of guys who fish the cape cod canal swear by the Shimano Saragossa reels.

The vr is much smoother

[flukebelly]

1 hour ago, vdep217 said:

The vr is much smoother

You’re correct. It all depends how close to $1000 you want to get ! Lol. To be honest I’ll be looking to get a V.S. To pair up with a 10 footer at the expo.

but man those newer diawa’s are hard to beat .