04-14-2012, 07:28 PM
I actually went out this morning at about 6:30am. The baitcaster isn't extremely difficult to use. I have had some advice of course but for the most part I only got backlashed if I stopped paying attention to my casts. And even when it happened they were all easily pulled back out. I actually got to a point where I had the setting on 7or so and the knob pretty loose. I was able to cast very light plastics a good distance without a weight. I am already seeing a million upsides compared to a spinning reel. The cast accuracy, control and distance with light lures being the main advantages.
90% of the time I used Senkos like you guys suggested. Got a hit as soon as I put the brown paddle-worm in the water. I missed my hook-set but about 10 casts or so later I finally landed one. My first bass in SC. Probably about 2lbs or so. It was about 7-8inches.
After that catch it was dry for a while with the soft plastics so I switched to a small spinner with a tiny plastic on it so I could cast it in grass. Got a good size crappie and a small largemouth on that and then I went dry for about and some jerks in a boat came into my little corner of the 14 mile long lake and started being loud..etc. So I left.
I think the baitcaster helped a bit with the catches since I was able to put the line exactly where I wanted it. And the paddle tail senkos move so well in the water. I really like the movement on them.
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90% of the time I used Senkos like you guys suggested. Got a hit as soon as I put the brown paddle-worm in the water. I missed my hook-set but about 10 casts or so later I finally landed one. My first bass in SC. Probably about 2lbs or so. It was about 7-8inches.
After that catch it was dry for a while with the soft plastics so I switched to a small spinner with a tiny plastic on it so I could cast it in grass. Got a good size crappie and a small largemouth on that and then I went dry for about and some jerks in a boat came into my little corner of the 14 mile long lake and started being loud..etc. So I left.
I think the baitcaster helped a bit with the catches since I was able to put the line exactly where I wanted it. And the paddle tail senkos move so well in the water. I really like the movement on them.
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