With the evolution of various fishing techniques, brands and manufacturers have created equipment specifically intended for the use of lures, starting with the reel. Developed to offer recovery speeds, but also an adequate capacity and power with these techniques, it is sometimes a little complicated to make a choice in the vast array offered.
We will thus explain to you the advantages of choosing a casting reel or choosing a spinning reel. These two complementary models will allow you to benefit from different performances. We will also see that the size or certain technologies can guide your choice in different ways.
The spinning reel, the perfect classic choice for beginners
This is the most popular model among French fishermen. It will allow you to fish both in the sea and in fresh water. They offer a spool that does not rotate, but which benefits from a rotor that will wind the line in the spool. The biggest global brands will offer them to you, such as Daiwa.
It has certain qualities that make it a model of choice. One of the most important, especially when practicing lure fishing from the shore, is its ability to propel long distances. Indeed once the pick-up open, your line, whether it is braid or nylon, will be completely free to project outside the spool.
With a line of good quality, you will easily reach tens of meters to go find the fish where it is. It is important to remember that the diameter of your mainline is directly linked to your ability to make long casts.
Furthermore, this is one of the other intrinsic qualities of this type of reel. It will be able to easily catapult very thin braids without any problem. Indeed once the pick-up is open, the line is totally free to project through the rings.
This will thus be a model of choice for finesse fishing types such as perch and possibly pike, and of course all small predators like trout or rock fishing practices.
These two main aspects that this type of reel offers will prompt you to use it under certain conditions. As you have understood, it will be particularly comfortable when it is necessary to have good casting distances. It will thus be used for sea edge practices, lake edge, or a pond.
Generally, we will choose a size between 2500 and 4000 depending on the diameters of the braids we want to install inside.
Focusing on the practice with small lures, we will tend to focus on the lightness and balance of a finesse combo with sizes of 500, 1000 or possibly 2000. Remember to opt for shallow spools if you want to garnish your reel with braid.
The last known and recognized use is the search for hunting and more particularly that of large marine predators like the tuna. The sizes will necessarily be larger in order to be able to receive a maximum of thick braid. From 10 000 to 30 000 depending on the places and the expected fish will not be too much to be able to respond both at the time of casting and at the time of fighting.
We will clearly require a great resistance whether it is against the power of the fish or corrosion.
Les modèles casting, a breath of fresh air perfect for trying a new approach
They are less popular in France or in Europe in general, but they represent the majority of products sold whether in the United States or Japan. Knowing the countries of fishermen that these last two are, we suspect that it certainly has an interest in taking an interest in this technology.
And indeed, you can count on their expertise in certain lure fishing domains. We will choose them first for everything that is big Bait practice in fresh water. They benefit from a rotating spool, very technologically advanced bearings and direct line winding.
This ensures a recovery of relatively heavy weights without effort and without damaging the equipment. So, you will enjoy a particularly wide range of use on a large part of the range. Pike fishermen will take advantage of this smoothness to be able to launch sometimes several hundred grams.
Vertical practices will also be easier to set up with this reel. Indeed it allows to easily practice with one hand thanks to the release of the sons by a simple pressure. This keeps the second one warm when temperatures easily approach zero.
In the same spirit and this time at sea, you could opt for this reel for everything that is jigging practice. More powerful and with a smaller ratio, you can easily let heavy weights descend vertically from the boat without causing the reel to suffer, or needing to put a very large size.
Again, the use of one hand during animations is an advantage to have the other free.
Finally, casting will be used on many techniques for searching for Black bass. This fish comes straight out of the lakes and rivers of the United States and Japan. Mainly practicing with casting, the rods corresponding to the search for this fish are almost all oriented with the guides on top.
This will therefore result in a slightly forced choice in order to benefit from all the expertise that these two great nations have been able to put in their product. Shimano for example is an expert in the field like Abu Garcia or Lew’s.
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