"JimH" wrote in message
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"SoFarrell" wrote in message
news:1112533058.e03e077ee05b93a2e6a153ff6cdd29f7@t eranews...
For live bait fishing, what's your pref? Open or spinning reels? Why?


I use spinning reels for all my freshwater fishing and used a conventional
open reel while on a charter boat several years back while in Miami. Open
reels were also the only reels we had as kids.

I still prefer the spinning reel.

The open reel is definitely more prone to tangles and backlash if you
don't know how to use it. I don't know about any advantages it has over
the spinning reel.


I think I cast farther with my smaller open reels than with my smaller spin
reels. It took me a while to get the hang of the open reels so I wouldn't
backlast them in uselessness but once I learned I grew to like them. It
reminded me of learning to ride a bike, actually.