Winston_Smith

The line was brand new, just put it no that day. I had a swivel on the line, i pretty much always use a swivel. I guess it could be the spinner. When i say twisted up what i mean is the line will sometimes not even wind onto the reel it misses and gets all tangled up. At first i thought it was my casting, i was casting over hand and the wind would get to it and leave me a lot of slack. So i started casting sidehand and i haven't been getting loads of slack like i was. But the reel still gets all tangled up on me.

I've been fishing with the old worm and sinker for a long time. Mostly fish the many small brooks around here. I just started getting into Bass fishing and last night was the first time i had gotten out to the lake to give it a go. Me and a friend had been fishing for about an hour when i landed my first Bass. I didn't get to record it at all but it looked to be around 3LB. I used the calculator on this site to figure it out. I was fishing with a 7' Shakespeare rod and a Shakespeare spinning reel, pretty cheap got it all for about $35. I was using a Yellow dot Dressed 3 1/4oz Mepps Black Fury. I had just moved from some grass i was fishing to a dock. I was casting under the dock and around the back of some boats. I cast just under a side dock and started reeling it back in pretty slow, i had reeled about 4 feet when he hit pretty hard. He didn't really fight to much, got him in pretty quick. I don't think i had him out of the water for more than 2 minutes if that. This weekend we are going to be renting a small boat and going back out for some more fishing. And i think it's time for a rod and reel upgrade, i had been holding off to see if bass fishing was going to be my thing. What would you suggest for a good solid starting rod/reel that will last me a while. I would keep using the setup i have now but it has a real problem with the reel getting all tangled up way to easy.