05-07-2003, 12:36 AM
If you ask me, I think the difference is more in the type of fishing you wish to do rather than the type of reel. Pitching and flipping with a spinning reel is insane. You usually wind up with a bunch of line falling off the spool and you then have to flip the bail and get it back on the reel when you should be fishing. Bait casters can be a more effective tool for the serious and accomplished fisherman. Imagine a dead calm lake with big fish hanging in shallow water. If you chuck a big old lure out there and land it near the fish with a spin caster, the lure is going to hit the water at full speed and splash like a big dog. Usually that will spook a fish. A skilled angler using a bait caster can thumb the spool and just slide that lure in there nice and easy so the fish dont get spooked.
Bait casters free spool will get you farther casts and of course theres the no line twist, and you get superior drag systems. Theres a lot of advantages, but really, if you dont want to put in the time to go through a learning curve and arent going to do anything different with it than you would with a spinning reel, why bother?
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Bait casters free spool will get you farther casts and of course theres the no line twist, and you get superior drag systems. Theres a lot of advantages, but really, if you dont want to put in the time to go through a learning curve and arent going to do anything different with it than you would with a spinning reel, why bother?
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