Since I’m mostly fishing for bass now, I decided to try baitcasting. I’m a life-long spinning and trolling person so I did what anyone does these days, I searched online, watched videos, and talked to some neighbors who fish.
I don’t know yet if I’ll learn to love flippin’, skipping, feathering a reel with my thumb, and all the fun that is baitcasting so I’m starting with one rod and one reel. That leads to my first hurdle: I want to baitcast in general situations and to toss a frog lure onto and into deep lily pads and grasses. Of course that means a lighter line for the former and a very strong line to cut through the vegetation and get the fish out for the latter.
I’ve never used flourocarbon line before. I assumed it was very small relative to its strength based on my experience with braided lines. Not so. I bought some 20 lb. test flourocarbon and it is thicker than I’d expected and very stiff. It doesn’t really work well in a small baitcasting reel. Lesson learned. I’ll probably unspool it, save it for later, and replace it with braided line for now.
