What equipment for fishing?

[jsmoke]

Saw a spinner rod in lidl for £20 and fancied trying some fishing again, haven't been for years. This will be a cheap rod I know but just for a stocked lake.

What other equipment should I buy, I seem to remember we attacked bubble floats and half filled them with water then some line and hook on other end.

What size of hooks, what kind of bait to use etc..

Any other equipment to buy?

 

[jsmoke]

So tried sweetcorn and powerbait, nothing. Cheap rod and reel, is it worth buying better quality line as this line seems to tangle a pretty easily?

Do you really need weights on the tracer line(between the bubble float and hook as the corn and hook sink anyway)?

What other bait can I try, maybe just a worm?