Spinning Set Up Advice

[neil r 1,861]

9' rod with a good tip, casting weights all good but if you cant feel whats happening under the water its no good!

you have to work lures in different ways to provoke attack and some need flicking and dragging others sink and draw.

id go with 20lbd braid for most situations unless its snaggy and your after known monsters

atb si

 

Casting weight is important, the 2 pictures are lures that I use . The little crazy fish white bait weighs about a gram all in with the fly tying bead as the weight. I use that with 8lb pe braid on a 0.5-7g xtra fast action 7ft rod and I can feel every bit of weed or rock . The other pic is a magnum dawg weighing 8-9oz and is used on a 300gram rated rod with 48kg braid and I can feel everything. Both are extremes and the big one is not what wilfs looking at but I'm just trying to show a 1 rod cant do everything well . If I tried throwing a mag dawg on the ultralight outfit or anything less than what I use , it would become very expensive very quickly with broken rods and lost lures and if I tried using the white bait on the big rod I wouldn't be able to cast it more than a few feet. I'm not having a dig because what you use obviously works for you but going by the rod length and braid you mentioned I'm guessing you are a salmon angler and going by what I've seen other salmon anglers use , most lures will be things like Toby's , rapalas and vision 110's are probably not much different in weight , pike fishing is a different ballgame and the lures a lot more varied. Like I said I'm not saying your wrong , 20lb braid and a 9ft rod will be ok but it needs to roughly match the weight of lure you're casting to get the best out of it

Edited November 24, 2016 by neil r

[mackem 26,908]

Anyone drop shot with micro kits for trout?

[si brown 8,486]

 

9' rod with a good tip, casting weights all good but if you cant feel whats happening under the water its no good!

you have to work lures in different ways to provoke attack and some need flicking and dragging others sink and draw.

id go with 20lbd braid for most situations unless its snaggy and your after known monsters

atb si

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Casting weight is important, the 2 pictures are lures that I use . The little crazy fish white bait weighs about a gram all in with the fly tying bead as the weight. I use that with 8lb pe braid on a 0.5-7g xtra fast action 7ft rod and I can feel every bit of weed or rock . The other pic is a magnum dawg weighing 8-9oz and is used on a 300gram rated rod with 48kg braid and I can feel everything. Both are extremes and the big one is not what wilfs looking at but I'm just trying to show a 1 rod cant do everything well . If I tried throwing a mag dawg on the ultralight outfit or anything less than what I use , it would become very expensive very quickly with broken rods and lost lures and if I tried using the white bait on the big rod I wouldn't be able to cast it more than a few feet. I'm not having a dig because what you use obviously works for you but going by the rod length and braid you mentioned I'm guessing you are a salmon angler and going by what I've seen other salmon anglers use , most lures will be things like Toby's , rapalas and vision 110's are probably not much different in weight , pike fishing is a different ballgame and the lures a lot more varied. Like I said I'm not saying your wrong , 20lb braid and a 9ft rod will be ok but it needs to roughly match the weight of lure you're casting to get the best out of it

 

no way one rod will cover all the bases but the set up i mentioned will cover a lot of typical rivers and lakes in britain..

i dont normaly post in this section but i have been fishing fresh and saltwater 30plus years and most of it has been spinning!

from small grubs to jerk and glide baits on 80lbd braid

theres a big books worth of information to cover all the bases from micro jigs to trolling!

atb si

[neil r 1,861]

Anyone drop shot with micro kits for trout?

One of the lads I fish with tried it before the season closed but had more chub than trout on little kopytos and micro frys .

[THE STIFFMEISTER 16,098]

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