Gotta bring that net. If you don't, it's guaranteed to burn you at some point. The most expensive equiment isn't important. Just good solid equipment that gets the job done. I'd love to be fishing all Calais, Calcutta TE's, Chronarch's and Sustain's. But that ain't gonna happen. So I try to go with the mid range reels and make mods to them if possible to get more performance. I don't think I've ever lost a fish because a Curado 200b wasn't good enough or a Stradic spinning reel wasn't smooth enough. I'd love to have the top of the line Pinpoint graph but I have a Lowrance X91 and it gets the job done. Being rich would be nice :) but just do what you can do.