Whats the difference between a spinning and casting fishing rod?
Jabbles asked:
I want to buy first long range, salt water surf casting fishing rod. What do I need to know? any suggestions?
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I want to buy first long range, salt water surf casting fishing rod. What do I need to know? any suggestions?
March 9th, 2010 at 9:22 am
Spinning
Casting Beazt
March 11th, 2010 at 8:50 pm
a spinning rod uses a spinning reel and as a very big eye closest to the reel and they get smaller as you go up also ironically a spinning rod is better for casting when a bait caster is better for tossing big baits Fish_head
March 13th, 2010 at 2:01 am
Spinning rods are made to be fished with the eyes pointing down, and are meant to bend that way also. Spinning rods, when compared to casting rods, are normally flimsier. There will be a slight difference between a medium action spinning rod and a medium action casting rod. Spinning rods also have huge guides, particularly the first one closest to the rod, because the reel spins the line back into the reel and needs room for the line to spin.
Casting rods are fished with the eyes pointing up, and are also meant to bend that way. Casting rods either have only slightly different sized eyes or all the same sized eyes (or guides). The guides on casting rods are small compared to that of a spinning rods’.
I have, however, heard of people using spinning rods with baitcasting reels when surf-fishing. Backwater Charlie
March 14th, 2010 at 1:34 am
hi, what you’re looking for is distance. you want distance because most fish aren’t right on the beach. you can get the longest casts from a spinning rod and reel. i would also probably suggest braided line and a fluorocarbon leader, depending on the species you want to catch. the braided line is very thin for its strength (50# test braid is the same diameter as 12# mono) and braid casts a country mile. you can also put alot more braided line on a spool than regular line because its thinner, thus giving you more line to play large fish.
the rod and reel should be large. the rod should be no shorter than 10 feet for proper long distance casting with heavy weights, with a similarly rated reel.
since you didn’t mention price and you’re just starting, i’d look at getting something along the lines of a setup like this:
its a decent little combo that’s not too pricy for a starter surf rod and will perform well.
hope that helped. good luck kewl kat