Why You Need a Spinning Rod for Bass Fishing
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
- Spinning gear has long been overshadowed by heavier casting gear, especially so with southern bass anglers. True enough that baits too big for conventional spinning outfits catch bigger fish in a lot of scenarios, but the advent and adoption of finesse techniques has become a huge factor in tournament and recreational fishing success alike.
Florida native Terry "Big Show" Scroggins shares several reasons why you need a spinning rod rigged, and his favorite do-all combo for all the popular finesse tactics. This single rod, reel, and line outfit will allow you to skip docks, fish shaky heads, drop shot, Neko and wacky rig with ease while reducing the number of rods you carry in the boat.
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I have doing tournaments 25 years and use primarily spinning rods here in Connecticut
Too many people think you upgrade from spinning reels when you learn baitcasters. Each has it's place, depending on technique and application.
Absolutely!
I’ve been telling a bunch of my fishing buddies about how good this setup works! I think a lot of people for some reason don’t try this and are missing out big time!
that advice on leader length is really good advice. I recently learned that my self. I noticed I had a lot better sensitivity and connection with my bait after switching to a longer leader. I didn't know why, now I do.
I started with a spin cast and then upgraded to a spinning reel and it is night and day! I have two spinning rods now and the smaller one is set with an 8lb line and it casts like a dream. My 7ft spinning rod is set up with 15lbs so it’s amazing at fishing deep but it does not cast as far as my 6” spinning rod set up. I love having both but either is a better fishing experience than the spin cast I started with.
A smart fisherman should master both spinning and baitcasting. They are both equally important to my fishing.
Right on. Nothing else to say here.
I'll stick with some versatile spinning rods thanks
After throwing a crankbait on a bait caster for 3 straight full days, I want to use a spinning rod. What spinning rod do you recommend for throwing a spro rock crawler or my wiggle wart (big and little)?
A fly rod is also excellent for big bass. They are even better for dropping weedless poppers into the holes in lily pads.
For a long time i used a 4'6" ugly stick ultra light for everything. Senkos, jigs, topwaters, rooster tails, frogs, hell anything youve got that lil ultra light would throw it lol
So you recommend 20-30ft of leader? That doesn’t cause issues in the spool when the leader mixes with the braid?
I fish spinning gear with 10lb braid and change my leaders out and it works great for me.
Awesome advice...I need to listen to more often. Very tough for me to pick up a spinning rod, but I need to! Great vid guys.
Thanks Chris! - Ryan
Game changer
I've switched my spinning rods to the Japanese BFS (bait finesse system) which is tuned, shallow spool baitcasters that are capable of throwing tiny lures. I can easily skip weightless plastics with it with light braid on a M/L rod. Some guys even use them for tiny trout lures.
Pakayakbassin exactly!! That's all I use is spinning reels and with the latest innovation for saltwater spinning reels it's coming down to everyday use! Their drag is better, their retrieve is overall faster, the folcrom point is better balanced. Realistically it's baitcasters on the way out and I'm surprised no one has seen that. Hell I'm switching all my pike rods to spinning. No birds nest and I can cover more ground faster!
Herbert Wilke I'm saying the opposite. I've swapped all my spinning gear to finesse baitcasters that can easily throw tiny lures.
You're nuts!! I guess it all comes down to the task at hand really. Where I'm at I can't do that. Lure is too small and the trout are too finicky in the streams. But tight lines!
Herbert Wilke I can't stand spinning gear, now with the new finesse baitcasters there's literally nothing that spinning gear can do better when it comes to bass.
Whaa?? That's not true lol but to each their own cause I'm not giving up my secrets haha
Morning coffee. Great video thanks
Thanks for carving out a little time for us during that sacred am coffee! Good luck fishing Chris.
If you’re fishing deep, just go with fluorocarbon entirely. I bounce jigs and plastics around some of the deep reservoirs here and use 10lb fluoro on a MH composite rod. When I’m 20 to 40 feet down with a 1/2oz lure, braid doesn’t make that much of a difference. When I’m fishing through weeds and stuff, that’s where I use braid so that I can transmit all the energy down the line to pull the lure out of the weeds (because braid has no stretch).
To me fluoro on a spinning reel is going to twist and jump off the reel eventually unless I change it every few weeks. I do like Scroggins and put on 14lb braid and a fluoro leader and never have any problems.
Good video. But the links in the description are all broken. 😟
Thanks frusfromus. We'll look into this.
I only got into fishing about two years ago and pretty much focused on learning baitcasters. Maybe I need to think about spinning reels now.
Pretty common situation. I just hung out with a buddy last night who's really getting into fishing and fishes spinning gear and now investing $$ and time in casting gear. Each excels with certain baits and techniques.
I’m looking for a spinning rod. I don’t know if I should get a medium or a medium heavy? I would use it for dropshots, wacky rig, finesse stuff, and small crankbaits/jerkbaits.
I feel like medium heavy for over all. It will cover most situations!
Med.
Austin P medium
I think I will go with a medium, thank you for your opinion!
One other thing I may add is the fact your using braided line which you have so much more strength. That is the main reason why I would choose medium heavy!
54 seconds into the video, what is that on his line?
Whats the name of the rod and the specs?
Thanks to braid, it saved the spinning rod!
This guy used to hate spinning rods for the dumbest reason ever. I’ve literally never had that issue unless I was using some 20 dollar Walmart rod. Yet I backlash nearly every time I fish even with a dc setup
Just goes to show that fishing throughout the nation introduces us to all sorts of new ways to fish. No doubt a pro angler needs a spinning rod in hand much of the time as fishing finesse presentations effectively calls for it.
What's a good knot for combining braid and fluoro?
Try and Albright knot, I use 30 lb Power Pro braid and a 4 to 5 foot leader of 8 pound fluorocarbon the knot passes through the guides no problem..
Harry Buzinski thanks for the advise in deff going to try it
We really like the Modified Albright. Here's a good video on the topic: czcams.com/video/6GAeqtvzs80/video.html
Braids likeness is its biggest problem. Wind blows it around horrible.
lol
that was the largest leader knot i’ve ever seen
I still hate'me but you need to be able to use'em lol.
BFS rods and reels!
Try a popper on spinning with a medium rod, braid and mono leader. So much fun. Gonna use the set up for winter jerk bait
You Americans are weird, everything you do and like doesn't make sense, let's stick to reels and baitcasters. We, the people in europe love spinning reels and hate baitcasters, for the same reason you hate reels, the same technique you use for bait casters can be applied for spinners. I don't see what is the issue here, I have never tried baitcasters but I watched some vids and it's the same process with mastering one and the other. One has its pluses like the other, both are usefull for different applications, even for same application.
Hey now, your missing some scope here. This school of thought is more rooted in bass fishing and is geographically and seasonally specific even to that! We have a lot of species in the US and there are many that are better suited for spinning gear. Obviously you can catch pike on spinning gear but wouldn’t you throw a 25cm+ bait more efficiently on casting gear?? Not to mention battling a giant pike? Most baits are just better suited for casting gear in bass fishing and that’s how many anglers were raised. The rise of finesse baits has put a spinning rods in the hands of many these days. So the anti-spinning combo mentality is fading especially with younger anglers.
Love your quiet style. Nothing like a good worm bite in the lily pads to perk up
the morning. Check me out fishing Texas waters on my channel JHP
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