Trawl the second hand shops...you will be surprised how cheap you can pick up reels sometimes....the problem is checking the weight for balance.
If you do try the second hand stores always release the spool from the reel... I was taught that you always place a sticker inside the reel to say what line you have on there (for example (7-wf-f) would tell you it is a 7 weight- weight forward -floating) and that should correspond to the reel.
Hope this helps,
KarelM
Bookmarks