Jon B

I will definitely be trying my baitcaster. Thank you for the ideas!

I'm new to freshwater fishing and have been learning new techniques and new lure retrievals. I've been nailing all of them except for the soft jerkbait. I tezas rigged a zoom fluke on a 5/0 EWG superline hook, tied onto a 18 inch fluorocarbon leader with a swivel onto 20lb braid main line. After a few casts I get a really bad tangle in my line when it's coming off of the spool. I'm pretty sure it's when I'm doing the twitch, twitch, pause cadence because as I'm twitching I'm also reeling. My thought is I'm reeling slack line? I've done so much reading and watched countless videos on the zoom fluke and have done everything that I've seen (barrel swivel, rigged fluke perfectly straight, tested fluke before I casted to make sure it ran straight). I'm at a complete loss and have zero confidence in throwing this anymore due to the frustration. Its a huge bait to use on a herring lake I'm hearing so I feel I have to learn it. P.S I'm throwing it on a spinning combo (MH rod with a Penn pursuit 3000 reel). Asking here is my last resort. Should I try on baitcasting rod/reel? Maybe it's the orientation of the spool? I've spooled my reels correctly I know for sure. Clockwise, label up, all of that. Never get tangles/twists with any other lure. Thanks in advance!