Baitcaster vs. Spinning Reel Fishing LURE Selections!! (CRUCIAL To Understand)

the question was asked can you throw a football jig on a spinning rod well the answer is yes but should you no can you throw a ned rig on a baitcaster well i mean the answer is yes but should you no okay okay can you throw a glide bait on a spinning rod well of course the answer is yes but should you no you shouldn't why let's talk about it [Music] well how's it going everybody and welcome back to tyler's real fishing my name as you heard there is tyler i love to teach you guys how to become better best anglers and that's my goal on this entire channel uh entertainment is there fish catching is there but of course my main goal is to help you guys understand fishing better and catch more and bigger fish so if you're not subscribed to the channel hit that subscribe button join team trf down below and let's get started into the content so the title and thumbnail of this video is going to be something about uh matching your bait to your rod and reel in terms of bait casting versus spinning rods that is the two i believe it's really the only two rod types i mean i guess you have like a spin caster with a button like a zebco 33 but when it comes to bass fishing you really only have two options for types of rods you got a spinning rod and you have a bait casting rod uh and i see so many people out there especially younger anglers throwing lures on either a baitcaster or a spinning rod that just flat out cannot or don't deserve to be thrown on that kind of rotten reel and you may look at this topic and say you're overthinking it i can throw whatever lure i want on whatever rod i want and you can't tell me otherwise and sure go for it knock your lights out but i'm just telling you from experience what i know to be true and that is it matters what type of rod you are throwing when you're throwing certain types of lures so i said a few in the intro there but i mean just to name a few giant glide bait tiny popper 6xd quarter round slipless crankbait i mean these lures here are very specialized to what types of rods they have to be thrown on and so i'm going to kind of go through a little checklist here four or five points of why i think you should throw certain lures on a bait caster and why you should throw certain lures on a spinning rod and of course that means that you're going to have to have several of each bass fishing can tend to be an expensive sport or expensive hobby whatever you want to call it but it doesn't have to be you don't have to have 74 rods like i have lit on your boat deck you can just have four or five and that will get you by almost every single scenario when it comes to bass fishing but of course you shouldn't be throwing super heavy lures on a spinning rod and you shouldn't be throwing super light tiny lures on a baitcaster because that just doesn't work and let me explain why step number one when it comes to matching your lure to your rod and reel is going to be looking at the rod itself now every rod is printed with the specifications of what the rod is meant for and what the rod is not meant for and so here i have my loose tp1 black speed stick this is a bait casting rod it is a jerkbait special it says it right down there on the bottom topwater jerkbait now by topwater doesn't mean frog it means little popper um but when it comes to this rod i can read the specs it is a six foot eight inch which at least for bass rods is around average maybe a little bit smaller than average for nowadays the power is medium the action is moderate fast the line weight is 8 to 12 pound and the lure weight is 8 ounce to half ounce now of course you can stray from those but that is the the recommendations that lose has given for this rod this rod is going to function best if you're throwing lures that are between an eighth ounce and a half ounce and you're throwing line pound test that's between 8 pound and 12 pound i'm gonna be making a video in the next few months about the differences between media medium heavy moderate fast extra fast all those types of rod um types but this video is just about how to match your lure to your rod so that's tip number one is you have to look at the rod itself now if we contrast this rod here this baitcaster to this spinning rod you're going to find that these are actually just about the same so this is a 6 8 medium bait caster this spinning rod is an all-purpose spinning rod it is a seven foot medium fast action the line weight being 6 to 14 pound and the lure weight being 3 16 to 5 8. so this one this spinning rod is actually rated for a little bit heavier line and heavier lures than this baitcaster is but they both fall in about the same category to throw light lures but if i'm gonna compare this spinning rod here the seven foot medium to this baitcaster you may not think they look all that much different but if you read the specs on this baitcaster this is a flipping stick it is seven foot four heavy fast action with the line weight being 15 to 65 pound and the lower weight being 3 16 ounce to one and one half ounce comparatively this is 6 to 14 pound line so this the highest pound test you probably should throw at this of course you can you know go a little above or below if you want the highest pound they recommend is not even the lowest pound they recommend for this rod so as you guys can see rods vary greatly when it comes to the types of line you should throw on them and the weights of lures that are recommended for those for those types of rods and so that's step number one is you want to make sure you understand what that rod means by the action the power and of course the line size and weight size and it's going to be kind of a feel thing if you are trying to cast a heavy lure on your spinning rod and it just feels like it's too heavy it probably is and if you have a bait caster you're trying to throw a little hair jig and you're having trouble getting distance and accuracy it's probably too small of a lure for that rod step number two to matching your bait to your rod is going to be understanding what line size you have uh heavier lures put more strain on your line and bigger fish put more strain on your line so if you're throwing a spinning rod i see people all the time that have like 65 pound braid on their spinning rods and i want to talk about like offshore saltwater stuff that's okay to have heavy heavy line but i see people that have 20 to 30 pound monofilament on their spinning rods and they're casting at 15 feet and thinking that that's about how far something casts but if you understand that a spinning rod is meant for a very very thin diameter line this uh this 15 pound braid is literally thinner than my 8 pound fluorocarbon like 15 to 8 the 15 is thinner spinning rods are meant for a thin diameter line bait casting rods are meant for of course any lines that are bigger than a spinning rod is meant to handle up to 65 80 pound braid anything above 80 pound braid or about you know 40 50 pound fluorocarbon it just doesn't cast through the guides the guides are too small for that and so you have to understand what your line size is if i want to throw this big swimbait right here i cannot throw this on 10-pound fluorocarbon it just cannot handle the constant heaving it out there because one of these times it's going to snap off not because my line is frayed but because 10 pound fluorocarbon 10 pound mono whatever 15 pound braid is not meant to withstand how heavy this lure is and just like throwing this little popper right here i love throwing this popper on 15 or 20 pound braid on a spinning rod because it's so small and it's so light i've tried throwing this popper on a bait caster and it's almost impossible because the baitcaster i mean the only one that would really work is this little topwater rod here uh the 68 medium and i prefer to throw an even bigger popper like this strike king kvd popper because i feel like i get better distance and accuracy with a baitcaster over a spinning rod but with this tiny little popper i just can't throw it on a baitcaster it's almost impossible and so do not get out there and tire yourself out trying to throw a light lure on a baitcaster or a super heavy lure on a spinning rod and wondering why can't i get distance or why is it casting really far and i can't get a good hook set it's because you're not using the right line side all these steps here are going to be correlated to one another rod weight a lure type line size they're all interconnected so i'm going to try to you know piece this together as best i can but you have to understand what line you're throwing because you don't want to break off on a hook set and you don't want to have an issue with casting it far enough tip number three for picking your lures for a baitcaster versus a spinning rod is going to be understanding how much your lure weighs now i think we've talked about this a little bit before in the first two steps and really everything here is kind of interconnected line size weight rod power everything's interconnected um so i'm going to kind of cover each topic in every step but your weight is very important of your lure so if i go back to the flipping stick here the 7 4 heavy the lure weight is meant for 3 16 to a one and a half ounce and so this half ounce flipping jig outcast cage fighter jig fits perfectly within that range between 3 16 and one and a half ounce can you get away with something a little bit a little bit you know lighter or a little bit heavier than the rod recommends yes you can but i would recommend getting anywhere from you know four to seven rods uh if you want to take bass fishing seriously that you can carry around with you in the car in the in the boat that cover the whole range of any any weight lure that you're going to want to throw so weight is really important and going along with weight is the type of hook that is in there so this is kind of tip 3.5 um with a flip and jig as you guys can see here i've got a thick thick wire hook this hook is going to take a little bit of umph a little bit of strength to set the hook into the fish's mouth because the diameter is thick and so that's why i'm throwing a thicker line size and a heavier action rod now if i'm throwing this jerkbait here first off you have like nine hooks so it doesn't take that much to hook the fish and also the hooks are a thinner diameter so when you go to jerking on the on the fish or on the jerkbait and then you go to jerk it and you have a fish on that one jerk is all you need to set the hook because the hook diameter is thin enough and so that's another thing to understand is that uh maybe you're throwing a football jig maybe you're trying to throw uh just or maybe a regular jig like the uh like the outcast um juice jig right here this is a standard jig it can be thrown on a bait caster or a spinning rod i prefer baitcaster of course because spinning rod has trouble setting the hook most spinning rods are not heavy enough to really unless you absolutely rail on them to set the hook into the fish's mouth that's where the baitcaster comes into play at least for me on most jigs so you have to understand not just the weight of the lure but the type of hook that it has there's jigs out there that have very thin wire hooks like this jig here this jig head on the outcast tackle golden eye swim bait that's a very very thin hook so sure it still technically is a jig head but it is not the same jig head as a flipping jig very very different you have to understand how heavy your hook is and so what type of rod you're going to need and what type of line you're going to need and the last tip that i have number four for picking your lures for a baitcaster versus a spinning rod is going to be what you are fishing if you're fishing in thick heavy vegetation throwing a spinning rod is going to be difficult because a spinning rods components are at least a bass fitting rod offshore ones are a little bit different but a bass spinning rod is not meant to set the hook really hard and just go to cranking and pulling a fish out of lily pads out of hydrilla milfoil they're just not meant for that they are meant for setting the hook in open water and fighting a fish to the boat a baitcaster like this flipping steak the 74 heavy this thing is literally meant for ripping fish out from underneath docks heavy cover an offshore brush pile rock pile that kind of stuff whereas a spinning rod is not meant for that and so you have to put thought into what am i going to be fishing today if i'm flipping around trees i probably shouldn't be throwing a spinning rod vice versa if i'm throwing a drop shot on offshore rock piles for smallmouth bass a baitcaster is probably not the best option for that and if you are fishing around some shallow brush or shallow grass you've got to put the line size like we talked about earlier as well as the lure weight into consideration so if you're trying to punch you're going to need a heavy weight to get through the grass but because the weight is heavy you're going to need a heavier rod and a heavier line size to make up for the fact that the weight is heavy so that's where the 65 pound braid comes into punching if you're throwing a drop shot you want the lure to fall straight and quickly and so you don't want any uh resistance on the line through the water so a thin line diameter like a 15 or 20 pound braid and an eight or ten pound fluorocarbon is going to be perfect for that you can't just willy-nilly bring a bunch of rods with you to the lake rig up whatever you want on them and expect to catch fish because you're going to have difficulties if you're not understanding what type of stuff you're fishing and how to match your rods reels line and weight to those specific situations like i mentioned before i don't want to make fishing too complicated the purpose of this channel is to teach you guys skills that can immediately make you better bass anglers and so this is one thing that i thought was confusing to people uh the way that you select your lures and pick your lures can be difficult especially if you only have one or two rods so if that's the case i understand you may have to go way outside of the lure weight recommendations line recommendations that your rod says when you only have a few rods but as you build up your arsenal starts to get different rods that can apply to different things get a crank bait rod uh like a seven foot seven two medium that can be used for crank baits one or two spinning rods one for more shaky heads ned riggs one for drop shots and small swim baits you know you want to diversify your rod and reel arsenal so that you are covering all of your bases because bass fishing is a very diverse sport there are so many different ways to catch fish in different situations to put your lures and i would hate for you guys to be throwing the right lure in the right place but you don't have the rod and reel combo to get the fish back in the boat so hopefully all this stuff made sense to y'all please please leave any comments you have or questions down in the comment section below i want that to be an open forum for discussion between myself and you guys and between you guys as subscribers to each other uh if you guys are not subscribed to trf make sure you guys do that i will have a few of my minnesota videos where i cut some uh some big old bass linked below and we'll see you guys next time on trf

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Length: 13min 41sec (821 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 15 2020