You might want a spincast reel...

[CaughtMeABiggun]

Just wanting to share an observation that I made a couple of years ago. I was out on the lake with my son and my dad during late fall or really early spring. I can't remember for sure but either way the water was in the 50s. We were working crankbaits by the ends of docks and discovered something. My dad and I were using 6:1 ratio reels, but my son was using a 2:1 zebco omega spincast. Though we were using the same lure, the bass would only hit my son's lure. Turned out that we could not get our lure to move as slow as his and that was the key to getting the bite. The bass were under the docks and wanted that slow presentation with a crankbait. I immediately went home and purchased to old mint Quantum 3.8:1 crankin reels and two Pflueger Trion 4:1 reels. I ended up catching a couple of bass on the spincaster once my son got tired of fishing. Something to think about for anyone that says they can just slow their retrieve down with higher speed reels... Sometimes you can't slow down enough.

[Bazoo]

I don't disagree, sometimes it is hard/impossible to slow down. One other thing to consider, the rod its on. If it was a fiberglass rod like a zebco usually has, I think that makes a more subtle wiggle than a graphite rod.

[bulldog1935]

17 ipt

While you can't change the ipt, you can change the t.  

Shorter handles have the effect of speeding up a reel, because one turn is a shorter distance - you also wind more with your wrist and less with your arm.  

With a long handle, you're using more arm to wind, and traveling farther to make one turn.  

With this 8-geared reel in jerkbait niche, I could count the fish increase from the long handle swap.  

[Obi_Wan]

Can't agree enough with the speed thing.  I'm accustomed to fishing warm water here in the south.  I try to go to Canada with my family and friends once a year for walleye and smallmouth. Fish jerkbaits mostly.  We get there just after the thaw.  A very common conversation around the campfire is, "I'm struggling to slow down enough."  When the water is cold, jerkbaits are great, but you have to slow down.  

 

I watch the pros fish a jerkbait and its non-stop.  When I'm up north and the water is cold, I twitch it 2-3 times (slow twitch) and let it sit for a second or two.  Many times I find that when I twitch it again, there's a fish there.  But when I go fast, no fish.