Spinning or Casting/ Conventional Reels

[chris141]

What is your preference of reel type and why?

I realize there are a lot of variables here. Personally I prefer to fish the surf, and for casting distance prefer the conventional reels.

 

[Daniel]

So I have mainly used bait casters growing up. We always fished from the shore so I loved to really put my arm into a cast. With spinning reels I always felt like I had to hold back a bit because most of our spinning reels were on lighter rod/reel combos.

This past Friday I was on the front of a bay boat fishing and my line busted on my baitcaster because of an oyster reef. We were pressed for daylight so I grabbed a spinning reel they had and started fishing again. It worked really well! I think it was a Penn/Ugly stick combo.

 

[Trufunk]

Spinning for me!

 

[Eddie Hernandez]

I use the both if I don’t want to fool with retying I just grab the closest one to me. But with that being said I always start out with a spinning reel combo.