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Originally posted by Back Beach
I would say the conventional setup makes it easier to pay line out and still keep contact with your jig if you need to employ the dropback method like you do in a few places. Stroth, you are correct in saying the line quality has somewhat equalized spinning versus conventional . Given identical blanks, though, the other advantage in my mind with conventional is that a conventional rod typically employs a collector guide that is closer to the reel, and thus closer to the strongest part of the rod. IMHO, this would give you a rod of greater strength versus a spinning setup that typically features a collector guide placed further up the blank.
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I do nothing but employ the dropback method if someone is fishin on the down side of me I move. I agree In most normal circumstance's where one does this on a convetional it is a better way but in the canal there's alot of tension on the line from the amount of it in the current.AS i let the line come off the spool i count the times it ticks my finger.to give me a idea of how to work it the next cast.often i will get hits with the line on my finger as sometimes its let line out bounce once an let more line out spot in the drift an i get too lazy to put it back up on the roller.The fish seem to get hooked from the tension on the line.i have had hits there that wanna pull me from my perch but I've never been cut by the line.i think I have as much control with no surprises from fish taken the jig while the reel is freespool.(pooof)