Spinning tackle is for old women and people who only fish once every five years.

Haha...that's awesome.  Someone hasn't had their asss handed to them with a 1/8oz slider like I have.  You might rethink that.    

Another reason I went with the bc setup is the rod, it is much stiffer than my medium fast spinning rod.  I felt that I was losing to many fish from poor hooksets, hopefully the stiffer rod will cure that.  Why is it that spinning tackle rated fast are so flexible?

Some are, it varies from rod to rod and among manufacturers.

My soft plastics rod is a St. Croix ES70MF spinning rod. The Power

is comparable to MH G. Loomis. The Action is rated Fast and it is.

The tip in this rod is firm, maybe extra firm.

By contrast, my "all-around" treble hook rod and dedicated jerkbait

rod is a AVC66MF baitcaster. The Action is Fast, but the tip is soft. I

find this perfect for working topwater, too!

8-)

I found myself using less and less spinning tackle, right now down to one technique that I can't cast well with a baitcaster....drop shot.

St. Croix make a baitcasting drop-shot rod.  6'9'' ML with an extra fast tip.

retiredbosn,

Fast and flexible are two different terms. Spinning blanks aren't supposed to "lock up" like a mag bass blank... under a heavy load they will still give in the lower half of the blank, regardless of the actual taper or speed. Fast only refers to the action until the blank is "loaded" as defined by 1/3 deflection (not by a fish or heavy load).

I'm a fan of a blank that locks up, much like it sounds that you are... which is why I don't build my spinning rods on spinning blanks. You would probably like a "spin jig" rod, as those blanks are designed more closely to the MB rods.

I found myself using less and less spinning tackle, right now down to one technique that I can't cast well with a baitcaster....drop shot.

St. Croix make a baitcasting drop-shot rod. 6'9'' ML with an extra fast tip.

Aside from casting lighter weights I think the spinning rod/reel gets the nod when using anything you want to free fall on slack line (ie spinning reel with open bail)

Small jigs, tubes, wacky, dropshot, shakey.

It's more about the line and the rod.  I'm using Medium action St. Croix Premier and can easily throw a 5" senko and even lighter.  Last year I used 12# Trilene XL but this year will try some p-line fluorocarbon.  That said, I'm thinking about picking up a BPS ProLite for the light balsa cranks that I can only cast on spinning gear - so far...  Best of luck.

I bought last years BPS ProLite Finesse and couldn't be happier. I bought it for my jig/pitchin' rod. I liked the small reel profile.

When comparing it to other reels on display there it really is a very nice little reel. I like all the BPS reels and based on the display reels I'll end up with all my baitcasters being BPS reels.

I use a Shimano Scorpion1000 for my finesse stuff.