SPINNING vs. CONVENTIONAL IN THE SURF

[ThrowingTimber]

For me it depends on whether I plan on wading deep or not. Wading deep I'll take my spinner. (vs300)

If I'm staying higher and a bit dry 'er and fishing current I'll take my conventionals (avet sx or abu7000i).

I look at them as tools for a job and try to apply them as such.

[Mike P]

It really doesn't make a difference any more. Use what you're comfortable using.

Braid lets spinning guys match conventional guys for distance, and the drag/gear train of offshore-type spinning reels like a Saltiga-Z or Accurate Twin-Spin can pull the guts out of most of the surf-sized conventionals. They weigh so much that you may need a truss or a back brace by the end of the season, but they also level out the "better control over a fish" advantage that conventionals have over most spinning reels.

Still, at the end of the night, you appreciate that 14 oz Newell 220 or that 15 oz Calcutta 400 more and more. There's your big advantage with conventional--weigh and ergonomics.

[zimmy]

heavy weight conventional. Spots where I have very limited room for a backcast or if I am plugging light or expensive lures-spinning.

I sark at conventional. Here's why: I can throw jigs for hours at a time with out busting one off. However, put a 3 oz custom popper or needle on there and I am bound to get a backlash or knot and there goes a $20 (now a days $80?) plug out to sea when the braid snaps. I just can't do the custom plug on my conventionals bit without going broke or at least crying alot over a season.

If there isn't room for me to make a nice smooth backcast I snap em off... if it is valuable, I snap it off...

New spinning reels made for braid can cast as far as conventional.For me spinning wins out most, less I am throwing jigs at the canal or (gasp!) chunks or tins (for drum down south).

I only button the second button on the suit and I only have ever owned one suit and don't know about 3 button and my mams don't get in the way when I cast, but I would like real pockets for storing gear, not them fake things.

[Saltheart]

Most fisherman can cast a spinner further.

World class casting champions use conventionals. So i gues the absolute answere is conventionals cast further if you know how to use them.

I use a conventional for the benefits after the fish hooks up.

I have no epxerience with the top of the line ($500+) spinners but I know many people who do and they like them over the conventionals for the most part. I have used Penns and Shimano and Abu spinners and to me , the conventional is way better overall as long as you are casting 1 OZ or better.

[piemma]

Please God, let the Winter end. One more of these stupid threads and I will put a 9MM through the screen of my laptop.

[JohnR]

Originally Posted by piemma

Please God, let the Winter end. One more of these stupid threads and I will put a 9MM through the screen of my laptop.

If a 9MM goes through the screen of a laptop, but nobody is around to hear it, will it make a sound?

[Flaptail]

Originally Posted by JohnR

If a 9MM goes through the screen of a laptop, but nobody is around to hear it, will it make a sound?

Only if it ricochets back thru the screen and puts a perfect round little red hole between your eyes.

[DZ]

Ok - more on the serious side. True story: Shea Stadium in 1969, in between games of a Mets double-header (Remember doubleheader's?) there was a distance casting contest sponsored by Garcia-Mitchell Corp. I think there were 4 guys - two were using conventional reels (maybe Ambassadors) and two were using Mitchell 302 Spinning Reels. They were casting baseballs. The guys using the conventionals could cast the baseballs into the PARKING LOT. The spinning guys could barely reach home run territory. At the end of the demo they cast about 10 orange baseballs into the stands - whoever got one could turn it in for a complete surfcasting outfit of their choice. I didn't catch one. Numbskull - I was sitting high in the upper deck so it was a little too far to see if the spinning guys had enlarged breasts.

[BassDawg]

All this talk of suits and not the single mention of the old school double breasted suit, complete with matching vest?

The vest tends to hide the mammories, but what are you conventies gonna do about the shrinkage of stones you get from going conventional? also, *don't ya have to be a senior citizen to own a cenventional reel and most definitely a BOAT guy to join the darker side of surfcasting!??*

*it takes no brass to throw conventionals, and cohones the size of watermelons to throw spinners. *

*THANKS ~but, NO THANKS~ i'll keep my jumblies intact and outhrow any of you sissy conventies with my braid loaded 704Z.............*


oh yeah, and i agree with Nebe>>>> the ** denotes sarcasm.

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