First off, in surfcasting both spiining and conventional have thier respective places.
Casting a 4-1/2 oz jointed eel plug and putting enough umph behind it to get it where it needs to be on a spinning rod will take the top of a finger off as the drag will surely slip a bit. Gotta have a conventional outfit for that type of duty.
Spinning meanwhile will help in throwing smaller offerings when those nights occur when the fish get picky foir smaller baits.
As for casting distance from the beach the only times it really makes a difference, at least in my experience on the outer cape, is when bluefish are busting out over the bar in daylight.
99% of the time when true surfcasting is being done on an open beach in high surf the fish are at your feet so distance is almost meaningless as opposed to the action of the rod in subduing one of the beasts and getting her in through crashing waves and receding white water.
Casting for rock platforms along islands and shores strewn with boulders where very little surf but lots of obstacles abound just under the surface may give the nod to conventional gear where you leverage is greatly enhanced to get fish away from and around boulders. As my good friend George says ,"with my JK Fisher conventional and 30 pound Big game I can just move the rock if the bass goes around it".
When I plug from a boat, no matter where I am, I use conventional gear. When, as infrequently as it has become for me, I am on the canal, I use conventional, when I am on the beach in a howling N/W or N/E wind and ch#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&g metal, I use conventional.
When I fish with George on rocky island shores, I use a spinning rod just to listen to him go on and on about spinning vs conventional.
I love it when he babbles on and I just look like I am paying attention but really it's all just going in one ear and out the other.
BTW they have made big strides in treating GYNOMASTIA for all you weho do not know how to throw conventional!
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