Getting back into ice fishing, now looking for suggestions for ice fishing rod and reel combo's...will be fishing for panfish and eyes..mostly in the this area, but will be going to devils and also Canada..going to start out with 4 combos. Budget around $150..Also what is your favorite line?
Thanks in advance for your input.
Steve

Check out the meatsticks from Jason Mitchell. Also has some great combos.

Ice rods and combos

I have a couple of Thorne Brothers custom rods Walleye Sweet Heart Plus Ice Rod, and a Perch Sweet Heart Plus Ice Rod. Both have Sedona 500 Spinning Reels on them. They are both great rods, and I have never used or seen their equal.

Another vote for the Jason Mitchell combos. Thorne Bros rods are nice, but for your budget, you would get a lot more bang for your buck with the JM combos. Another possible option would be to purchase the JM rod and pair it with a Abu Garcia Cardinal 100U reel for a lower priced, yet solid rod/reel set up.

Ditto on the Mitchell rods. They will fit ones budget very well.

I saw the $150 budget, but missed he wanted to buy four rod combos for the $150. Sorry had I noticed that I wouldn't have suggested the Thorne rods.

Mitchell puts out good rods, I would imagine the reel would have some quality to it as well. I don't think he'd put out a junk reel with his nice rods. For line, Gamma ESP Ice Copoly is by far the best line I have used to date. I even buy extra and use it for open water as well. I would get one Meat stick, which can be used for walleye and panfish, the other 3 are up to you as it really depends on what you target most.

there is a guy that builds them -- custom rod guy -- they are pretty cool. Let me know if u r interested.

Where have you been Hitman?? Was starting to think that maybe you moved up north or something...

EyeHunter - -nah just picked up a second newspaper and looking at adding a third - -my time is getting smaller - -used to have plently of time to screw around - -little kid football -- 4-5 days a week scouts gets to be a lot.

U gonna put your house out by me this year or are you going back to "that" lake?

Not going back to that lake...might be heading southwest of there. Where are you putting your's??

Big C -- going to tag team with a couple others including minnow-man

A buddy will have his on Sallie so I can hit that for a change.

I'll be over on Lida, come over and join me one day.

Frabill also makes some nice rods. There quick tips are great for crappies and gills. But you should always choose something that feels good to you.

I bought four Wristsaver combos last year at the ice show and love them! I think they were around 30 bucks per combo.