Necessity is what motivated me to learn baitcasters 35 years ago. I simply could not pull largemouths out of heavy cover with even heavy-duty spinning rods. So it's a rod thing for my bass fishing. There are more baitcasting rod selections than spinning. Choose the patterns you like to fish best....select a rod to handle it...get your reel! Now, I use spinning tackle for the gnarllyist docks, small/light plastic baits work and baitcasters for everything else. Baitcasters are much more comfortable and efficient over a days fishing in most all of my lure choices. Good luck.