tuna fishing and cheap are never in the same sentence.
im not too familiar with either coast for tuna fishing, only in the gulf.
if you want to get some gear as inexpensive as possible go with TLD 25's on some 5'6" tidewaters. 50-130. like you said 65braid with a top shot of mono will be the ticket. also the tuna could care less if you have fluoro carbon or mono, especially if trolling, when chunking its all about the bait behaving in the water like all of them other pieces of chum the tuna arent looking to see if there are strings attatched. right there you talking about 125 or so for the reel and another 70 for the rod. you can always upgrade the rod later on but its hard to find another soild glass blank rod for under 200 even the penn tuna sticks are a graphite glass mix. Another reel choice would be Avet's i have seen those reels at really good prices plus they are american made.
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