baitcaster for senkos and lighter baits

[Castamasta]

is there a good light baitcaster on the market that enables you to cast lighter baits with ease and still has the power to haul in an 8 lber or should i stick with a spinning reel to throw the light baits (i like baitcasters much more than spinning reels)

[Chad.]

is there a good light baitcaster on the market that enables you to cast lighter baits with ease and still has the power to haul in an 8 lber or should i stick with a spinning reel to throw the light baits (i like baitcasters much more than spinning reels)

Daiwa pixy with pixillia upgrade!

[Jake.]

I am stubborn and throw weightless Roboworms with my Revo SX. Spinning gear just doesn't feel right to me anymore.

[Micro]

My Abu Garcia EXT Pros cast light baits very well - better than even my Revo STXs.

[Castamasta]

micro do you have any cheaper alternatives to the garcia EXT that still can cast the light baits?

[SJex]

A TD-Sol is an excellent reel for weightless and finesse fishing.

[skunked_again]

the right rod will help a ton. i have a revo stx on a browning rod and it doesnt throw light baits well at all.

[Hooked_On_Bass]

Shimano Chronarch 50(51) Mg.

[hawgchaser]

Senkos should be pretty easy to throw with a baitcaster. However, line and rod will have a lot to do with it.

I have 2 Quantum Codes paired with quantum PT rods that cast really light lures very well. I have been throwing spot removers and other small jig heads with the codes and been very impressed. I am also using 15 lb Triple Fish X rated line. This line is limp and very castable.

I have been very tempted to pick one of these up.

I have 2 Quantum codes that i throw finesse worms on and I have been very surorised at how well the cast light baits. However, line and rods are very important as well. On these rigs, I am using a Quantum PT rods and triple fish line.

I've been tempted to pick up one of these just out of curiosity.

http://www.basspro.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10151_-1_10001_90674_100001001_100000000_100001000_100-1-1

[BucketmouthAngler13]

I got a Abu SC that casts senkos and even weightless 6.5" trick worms just fine and dandy.

some baitcasters can cast light baits better than you'd think. I know I was surprised when I switched to casting from spinning.

[Alpster]

A 5" senko with no added weight and a EWG hook weighs almost a 1/2 oz. I wouldn't consider it a 'light' lure and any decent rig should cast it easily. JMHO

Ronnie

[MALTESE FALCON]

My Revo SX and SC work great, as well as my Daiwa TD Pro. All three cast light baits with ease. Neither reel will break the bank.

Falcon

[Raul]

A 5" senko with no added weight and a EWG hook weighs almost a 1/2 oz. I wouldn't consider it a 'light' lure and any decent rig should cast it easily. JMHO

Ronnie

But it 's weightless Ronnie, don 't you get it ?  :

I guess that rigging it without sinker it makes it qualifies it as weightless.  

[daviscw]

I feel like a weightless Senko is just as heavy as most normal sized crankbaits. I have a Citica 200D on a St. Croix premier and it throws them fine... However, I have an ultralight Ugly Stick spinning combo 5'6" and it seems to throw them farther.

[roadwarrior]

Well, although a lot of guys throw soft plastics with baitcasters, I don't!

The problem is not with the weight, although the right rod certainly

helps. My issue is with the "rare occasion" when the bait goes airborn,

which results in a backlash from hell. I know it doesn't happen often,

but once is too many for me. I prefer spinning gear to avoid the

hassle.

8-)

[Bankbeater]

I throw c-rigs, senkos and heavily weighted plastics with a baitcaster.  For light t-rigs, and weightless plastics I like spinning gear.

[Redtail]

I agree with RW, plus I like to skip soft plastics under docks and tree limbs.  If I tried to skip with a baitcaster, there would be a new meaning to bird's nest.  I'm still not good with a baitcaster yet, but does anyone skip with one.  Seems impossible !

[Alpster]

is there a good light baitcaster on the market that enables you to cast lighter baits with ease and still has the power to haul in an 8 lber or should i stick with a spinning reel to throw the light baits (i like baitcasters much more than spinning reels)

A lot of guys will prefer to use spinning gear, but the original question was "is there a good light baitcaster on the market that enables you to cast lighter baits with ease and still has the power to haul in an 8 lber..I like baitcasters much more than spinning reels"

The answer is YES, you can throw light baits with most decent baitcasters. If you can afford a Diawa Pixie or Steez, Shimano DC or Mg with a good rod that has a little flex, you can throw VERY light baits. JMHE

Ronnie

[Raul]

I agree with RW, plus I like to skip soft plastics under docks and tree limbs. If I tried to skip with a baitcaster, there would be a new meaning to bird's nest. I'm still not good with a baitcaster yet, but does anyone skip with one. Seems impossible !

Impossible ? not really;

Backlash country while you are in the process of doing it ? you bet it is, never have backlashed a BC so throughly as I did when began to skip with it  , not even the first time I made a cast with a BC.  :-/

It takes lot of practice ( and backlashes ) before you can skip properly with a BC, it 's a matter of setting the brakes, thumbing and roll cast techqnique to make the bait hit the water in the right angle to make it skip, and then it comes the fun, make the bait skip several times and with accuracy.  

[mike bat]

you shouldent have any trouble tossin a weightless senko with a baitcster any baitcaster :-?  ... my zillions will will toss senkos a country mile ....  

[Raul]

The term weightless means without weight, so calling a 1/2 oz bait ( like a 5 inch senko just as Ronnie mentioned ) "weightless" is pretty much contradictory.

Sinkerless is a much adequate term to describe fishing a bait without sinker.

[Castamasta]

thanks for the replies on my question. and by the way i use 14lb test with my reel which is a BPS Extreme

[roadwarrior]

The term weightless means without weight, so calling a 1/2 oz bait ( like a 5 inch senko just as Ronnie mentioned ) "weightless" is pretty much contradictory.

Sinkerless is a much adequate term to describe fishing a bait without sinker.

Well Doctor Raul,

Although you are technically correct, I think "weightless" is common nomenclature when describing a soft plastic fished without a weight. We generally refer to this as "T-rigged, weightless and weedless", but in fact a lure cannot be "T-rigged" without a weight!

8-)

[jbsoonerfan]

You can rig a Senko weightless, but then it isn't T-rigged. If you are talking about rigging the Senko weedless, that isn't T-rigged. You technically can't cast anything that is "weightless" because it would as Dr. Raul said, be "without weight." If something is without weight, it would more than likely be a gas. Actually some gasses are more dense than air thus giving them weight and therefore even making them not "weightless."

However, I agree with RW. We typically refer to anything without a "weight" as being "weightless" so instead of being with weight. We are actually talking about; without "a" weight.

[daviscw]

Are ya'll serious?