Weight of reels?

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Cheers for all the info guys but ended up getting a Stella 4000 FD for less than half price so didn't end up with what I had planned on getting but more than happy now with my first Stella
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Originally posted by PJay PJay wrote:

Originally posted by uncleping_88 uncleping_88 wrote:

Yeah I was thinking of o/h for sbs but seems the spinners are the go and easier to balance he weight Vs o/h.
 
I'm inviting disagreement (eg those friends on here who point to so many successful SB fishers who use only spin reels), but my experience has led me to use almost always baitcaster o/hs.  I have some good spinning reels, but they very seldom get used these days - mainly for tuition of others being introduced to SB fishing.
 
I think the baitcasters give you much better balanced set-ups, they are much easier for catching fish on the drop, as noted above, and I believe are much more accurate for casting than spin reels (I reckon my accuracy at 40-50m is about +/-  a metre with my spin reels, +/- a foot with my baitcasters on the same rod blank).  They're also easier to manage a little extra drag with use of a thumb compared with palming a spin reel.
 
Conventional wisdom in the magazines and on TV is spin for wash fishing, o/h for deeper water.   IMHO, bollix.  I use baitcasters everywhere.
 
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