Im newer to bass fishing (and posting on reddit so I apologize for any faux pas) and have trouble throwing smaller spinner baits on a baitcaster without birdnesting, I believe due to weight. So I added a cut senko for weight and color. Is this overkill or a better way to do it?
Posted by cantplayright
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Try it out and see, I thought baitcasters were better for throwing heavy lures longer distances? Maybe try a spinning reel?
I’m sure it will work, but I’d use a paddle tail
Pull the soft plastic off. Buy a spinning combo 6’6″ to 7′ with some 8 lb test mono. You will catch bass, crappie and a lot of other fish.
Before tweaking the lure id start by making sure your reel is properly adjusted. But it’s not a bad idea no, would be more effective with a paddle tail swimbait, fluke, or one of the many other kinds of trailers that are specifically for the purpose of adding extra action/vibration to spinner baits.
I can confirm that what is shown the picture is indeed SOMEthing. Whether it will catch fish or not – I’ve seen worse!
Not really but it’ll definitely still catch fish
It sure is… little dinger off the back of a mini spinnerbait is killer
Def needs a spinning rod
It’ll probably work. You could always just go get a heavier spinnerbait. You’re using tiny stuff lol. Different baitcasters can handle different things. If it’s less than 3/8 oz my TranX 200 can’t toss it well, but a bfs 70-100 size reel totally could. My TranX 200 can throw 2 ounces like a dream. That weight would probably spool a little bfs reel.
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It will catch fish.
Generallly when people put a plastic trailer on a spinnerbait that adds additional action. Curly tail, split tail, craw, paddle tail, etc. The plastics don’t add much weight. I would think the issue is more probably your line is too heavy for a light lure or you need to better adjust your reel spool tension. Throwing light lures on heavy line doesn’t work well. This is why many anglers who throw big and small lures have multiple rods/reels with different weighted line for throwing different sized baits.
It’s not really standard, but that doesn’t make it *wrong* either. Normally you’d use something that imparts a bit more action… paddle/curly/split tail, whatever. But fish will still go after that. Hell, they go after spinnerbaits with no plastic at all, so this sure won’t dissuade them.