Will new rod be my saviour?

I fell upon the package and tore it open last night: a new rod. A spinning rod - the idea being it will give me more options to be able to fish when I'm out anyway, ie spinning while my beachcaster is cast and possibly even while out on family beach trips (that'll go down well...). Good for the daytime, the old spinning rod. Or so I read. Maybe that's the problem: I know little, except that which comes out of a book...
My wife asks me whether there will now be a procession of rods and whether I am now going to spend increasingly large amounts of money in my quest for the holy grail: a fish to take home and eat. I couldn't answer her, for fear that an honest response would simply have to be 'yes'.
I will update you after the weekend. Probably even over the weekend if I'm successful;. But then we all know how likely that is...