5" senkos (maybe a pack of 1/0 weedless wacky style hooks), trick worms, swim jig (with pack of trailers), flukes, brush hogs, bullet weights, and 3/0 EWG gamakatsu hooks. Buy a pack of barrel swivels and you can have a Carolina rig or TX rig, a pack of crimp on split shot weights so you can still throw your flukes and weightless stuff when the wind picks up. I'd say that'll put you back about 50 bucks. You'll get a lot of bites with just these for a guy that's just getting into it. You really don't need a huge variety of colors. I'd be 100% confident in telling you to get everything in watermelon red or any other watermelon color and you'll have just as much luck as you would if you bought 30 colors in every bait mentioned.
My best advice is to go with a few people first. Whatever you catch your first few fish on you'll develop a ton of confidence in. That's half the battle. It's not rocket science by any means, but you will never stop getting better at it. At the end of the day it's all about increasing your chances of getting bit, then increasing your chances of landing fish. There are a lot of small things you can do to help or hurt your chances, but just starting out don't worry about anything. Just fish, focus on making good casts, and build some confidence in a few different baits and areas. It can be overwhelming no doubt with the millions of baits, colors, and lines etc.
Hats off to you though for wanting to learn something new though. It's all too easy to stay in your comfort zone and chalk up something you don't know how to do as lame or whatever. As seen on the glorious Salty Cajun quite often... lol
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