7mm08
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And I have never used a bait caster, I'm liking a spinning rod with a cork and a mudminnow on windy days!
32" 13# red on a slow day.
32" 13# red on a slow day.
After 40 years of just a flyrod….
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I love spinning rods, especially a quality ultralight. I despise baitcasters. Great red.
Never tried a fly rod, but probably not well suited for my target species
Never tried a fly rod, but probably not well suited for my target species
Beautiful fish!
I love all type of reels. They all have there place.
I love all type of reels. They all have there place.
FLTENNHUNTER1
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I love bait casters! Only way to fish for bass. Work great for inshore fishing also.
Omega
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Never warmed up to bait casters, and haven't done any fly fishing in decades. I've caught just about any fish with a spinning reel, so never tried to get good with anything else.
Setterman
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Great fish! I gave up my purist nature a few years ago as well
thirdwilliam
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nice. Love a spinning reel. I'm okay with a fly rod, Never wanted to use a bait caster. Love the reds
I love my spinning reels. Have never tried a fly rod, bait casters I always wound up spending more time picking tangles and birds nests out of the line than fishing.
wildside
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spinning fan myself if going dark side...I can use bait casters but have never seen the advantage. Great fish by the way...
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Nice fish, going after then next Friday for a week. Spinning for me, never used a fly rod, may strangle myself 
some of you guys helped me out with fly rod basics a half dozen years ago, big thanks. i figured out a pattern for bedding crappie a few years back. more effecient and better presentation than my spinning gear. same for bluegill and shellcrackers.
megalomaniac
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Personally i have a disdain for popping corks and won't use them. Not that they aren't effective, I just can't stand them.
I'll use live bait once or twice a year when water temps get close to 90, but I freeline live croakers.
I bet you could tail hook the mud minnow, freeline him, and do even better than with the popping cork.
I'll use live bait once or twice a year when water temps get close to 90, but I freeline live croakers.
I bet you could tail hook the mud minnow, freeline him, and do even better than with the popping cork.
I can use any type of rod and reel, No way I could be stuck on any 1 method to fish, would you use a high power rifle for squirrel? I'm not sure what folks idea that you have to use bait casters for bass? have caught them with spinning rods as often as bait casters. Also the lowley Zebo accounted for some back in the day. I can also backlash any of them lol, I back lashed 2 in the same day due to worn out gears, they were my uncle's and had been casted a million times. Go to set the hook and they went into free spool ,went back to my spinning reel and no more messes that day.
turk870
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Cool
I am heading down to Venice the end of the month to chase them.
I am heading down to Venice the end of the month to chase them.
mainly use it during the spawn and post spawn black crappies before they go back offshore in the summer. mostly catch males from 1-8 feet of water along logs, stumps and laydowns in pocket water and sometimes along the flats. we have a bunch of sunken logs where i fish and they are magnets during the spawn.
i use a 6wt with the trout line that came with it and weighted wooly bugs. ive started using this fly pattern and like it better. less than a dollar to tie and easy enough to tie it with vice grips. i just add a tungsten bead and some lead wire. the beauty of it the bait doesnt nose dive like a jig, stays horizontal and keep it in the zone longer. itll sink but its kind of semi-bouyant. i can pick up 20ft of line and shoot to 30ft fairly easy with one cast. with a spinning reel i have to reel all the way back to the boat and recast and with slip floats i think it spooks fish.
