Late to the party (baitcasters)

[imagine29028]

Tried half heartedly in the past...never got the feel, but Ive now made an investment and am determined on how to throw one of these things. 

 

Got a Team Diawa Glass rod that is a little bent from my dad...picked up a ABG Silver Max for it. Gonna use it for squarebills and topwater

Also bought the 6'9" ABG Vendetta Black Max combo from DSG. Gonna use this for swim jigs/chatterbaits

 

Now to watch some youtube videos amd practice. 

[tbone1993]

I feel like longer rods are easier to learn on. I normally give my friends my 7ftmh to learn on with a 1/2 jig. Tune your reels correctly and you will have 0 issues. 

[Glenn]

 

 

[new2BC4bass]

Good luck.  Stick with it and you may wind up leaving the spinning combos at home most of the time.  Tried a baitcast reel many, many moons ago.  Didn't know anyone using one so quickly gave up on it.  Seven years ago I decided to get back into fishing locally (fishing sucks here).  Tried my first Low Profile (a Daiwa Fuego on closeout), and haven't looked back since.  Still didn't know anyone using a baitcast reel, but now I had Internet to teach me how to set it up and use it.  No doubt the learning curve would have been shorter if I'd had someone to help me.  Thanks to the Internet I now personally know 2 people locally that use baitcasters....a young man and his wife.

For me....Glenn's advice about casting is more for someone already knowing how to cast.  It is harder to be smooth on a cast straight back and straight forward.  Baitcaster reels don't like any kind of jerkiness.  Which is tougher on that type of cast unless you have superb timing.  I think a roll cast is much easier to learn on.  It keeps the rod tip loaded, and helps a lot in smoothing out a cast.  Accuracy won't be as good as Glenn's method.  However, I definitely will be using his method for shorter casts requiring my best accurate cast.

[BassinLou]

Best of luck to you this time around. Watch those videos, and my best advice for you is to buy dummy plugs;  practice in an open space and become familiarized with the b/c again before you go out fishing with it. Practice..practice..practice... get that thumb trained on feathering and braking that spool. 

Goodluck