PJay wrote:
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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