2 hours ago, A-Jay said:

You must have a LOT of casting gear.

?

A-Jay

Or he's like me.  I've got 10 spinning rods.  I've had one out, one time, in the past 6-8 years.

 

Was 100% spinning before I bought my first low profile baitcast reel in March, 2009.  I do have a 5001C that I bought around 42-46 years ago, but knew no one using a baitcast reel so it never got used after the first couple times I had it out.  It cast just fine now. 

 

Also...possibly like GReb...I have a lot more casting gear than spinning.  But not at the 1% rate.  More like 10% spinning, 8% fly fishing, 82% baitcast.

I didn't have any spinning equipment until about 20 years ago. I am probably 90% bait casting and 10% spinning. I went fishing today. Had two spinning rods with me but I never took them out of the rod box.

The question was how much time do you spend fishing both. I have one spinning rod. It sat on the shelf for months but I did catch a fish on it this spring!!

My finesse rig on my favorite lake here in central Mexico is a drop shot, with a 3/8 oz weight, and a wacky rigged 7 inch Senko.  I cast this finesse presentation with a BC.  The remainder of the time I'm power fishing with a bait caster.  A spinning rod and floating Rapala have saved the day more than once, but most of the time I'm all in on bait casters. 

im about 50/50. most of our lakes are pressured and clear. so drop shots ,neds, wacky senkos, do well. but most also have grass. so if im fishing the grass with worms , jigs chatterbait etc im casting of course. so for me it just depends on which pattern i can get the most bites on at the time. to me theyre just tools and i use what i feel is the best tool for each job. dont really prefer one over the other.

5 hours ago, GReb said:

99% baitcasting

1% spinning 

This is me. I don’t use spinning until under 1/10oz. I way prefer fishing a 1/10 Ned on a 6’10” ML casting rod.

 

Only presentation I haven’t used a baitcaster for so far is drop shot. Next year, if vertical I’ll use spinning, if casting, I’ll drop shot with a 7” ML KLX.

7 hours ago, A-Jay said:

They told me there'd be no math ~ 

A-Jay

Looks to be 69.2% casting ?.  I'm about 80/20 favoring casting gear.

Largemouth: 65-35 casting

Smallmouth: 65-35 spinning

Only talking bass fishing, this season, 85% casting and 15% spinning. In years prior it was more like 95% casting.

I own only 3 spinning setups for bass but my usage is still 95 to 5%. I only use spinning for specific technique but my wrist is kind of act up so I can’t really shake the worm.

Prefer casting gear but like you, fish clear water where downsizing and spinning gear makes better sense.

 

Where I find spinning so much more advantageous is skipping flukes and wacky rig. 

What percentage of time? Depends on the day. 90% of my gear is casting. However, if all they are eating that day is finesse baits on light line, then it could be 90% + time spent use spinning gear. 

I'd say 75% spinning and 25% casting for me.  I really only use my casting setups for chatterbaits, squarebills, and jigs.

It depends on the day. The last month has been probably 95% casting. This summer, when the bite was tougher, it was more like 60/40 spinning. I prefer casting and only fall back on spinning for weightless plastics, drop shot, and shakey head.

About 50/50 for me overall… I’ll go out use nothing but bait casters for a few outings then the same for spinning rigs.

100 Percent casting.

For bass, I am about 80% casting, 20% spinning.  Use spinning for drop shot, shaky head, and Ned.  I often still use a casting rod for weightless stickbaits.  Helps with getting them away from cover and vegetation.  I much prefer casting gear for the accuracy, power, and comfort.  

This year its been close to 50/50. 

For combos I own, I'm close to 50-50: 7 casting setups and 6 spinning. As far as usage goes, I'm closer to 90-95% casting and 5-10% spinning, only bust out the spinning for lighter finesse techniques which I don't use as often these days.

Spinning and fly tackle only.

I was casting only few years back and II only had one spinning combo, But as I fish more and more I got more spinning combos, Not I am 30% spinning and 70% casting . And thats a lot spinning when you are fishing in SoCal.

You don't want to get me started on this topic ☺️

On 11/2/2022 at 2:29 PM, A-Jay said:

They told me there'd be no math ~ 

A-Jay

Is there a color coding method to your rod sleeve choices?

There is a huge rabbit hole, I will try to bring something more to the table other than bc=heavy sp=light, although that is 100% correct

 

Bc has huge advantage of aiding heavy 1/4oz + lures to land softly  by tightening spool tension and thumbing. And is generally more accurate for pitching.

 

Bfs is very useful for light bass and heavy trout but I find I much perfer 1.5g and lower for  L/UL spinning

 

Spinning is very good at light lures, I've found after putting many hours in of fishing them they are also very effective for flipping when mastered when fishing the very light end of the lure spectrum, and will even outperform bfs on  presentation because the freedom of the speedy fall rate, which is a obvious double edged sword. A ported bfs spool can only go so light before you loose the accuracy due to too light of lures. The threshold for me seems to be 1.5g before I'm fighting the resistance of the spool for accuracy  too much.

1 hour ago, Koz said:

Is there a color coding method to your rod sleeve choices?

Yes.

Helps me get the right rig from the rod locker.

A-Jay

 

On moving water I am 98% fly, 1% spinning, 1% BC

Lakes 95% fly, 3%BC, 2% spinning