Thanks again guys for all the info! I feel like I am probably going to take the plunge eventually but gonna save up like LowePro said and buy what I want the first time. In the mean time it looks like I will be going with a single pole. I'm not looking to just fill my freezer until I cant shut the door but I do like to eat fish and crappie seem to be the best so far, but I was brought up to only take what you can eat while fishing/hunting with my dad. Crappie were always a mystery fish growing up bass fishing with my dad and he always said he wished he could catch a mess of crappie but we never could, I just want to be able to repay my dad for all the tangles and lures of his I lost growing up by taking him and catching a mess of crappie!