Ok guys, so i have four rods. I was just watching a video on here about spinnerbait fishing and one of the tips was not to use spinning gear with spinner baits. News to me! Now i'm wondering, what all my poles would be good for as far as baits because i've always used a "one size fits all" approach to fishing. Oops! Here's my gear:

-Quantum Accurist PT baitcaster with #20 berkley fireline fused original in smoke braid on a 6'6" 1 pc med. ugly stik

-Light 5'6" shakespeare rod with 10lb spiderwire super mono xxx in clear on a mitchell avocet silver series spinning reel

-Silstar combo spinning reel with 6lb mono (probably med. action)

-Spidercast spinning reel on a daiwa 7' med light rod and 8lb spiderwire super mono xxx.

I have spinnerbaits, plastics, a jig, rapalas, poppers, jitterbug and a few other random hardbaits. My heaviest stuff is the spinnerbaits. lightest is probably worms.

I was just watching a video on here about spinnerbait fishing and one of the tips was not to use spinning gear with spinner baits.

Nonsense.

In practical terms you can fish any bait with any reel, your "one size fits all" approach is correct.

I have to admit, casting a larger spinnerbait and reeling it in on the light or med. light feels like if i hook a bass theres going to be 80 lbs on the line and it's going to break lol, tons of resistance. But i've caught em on both before. With the baitcaster it feels like theres barely a dent on the end of the line.

I have to admit, casting a larger spinnerbait and reeling it in on the light or med. light feels like if i hook a bass theres going to be 80 lbs on the line and it's going to break lol, tons of resistance. But i've caught em on both before. With the baitcaster it feels like theres barely a dent on the end of the line.

Man, nowhere I mentioned the size/weight of the spinnerbait, as usual you match the weight of the lure to your rod, you are not going to cast very well a 3/4 oz spinnerbait ( and adding the weight of the blades you can easily get to the 1 oz mark ) with a M or less power rod.

I use a Cabelas XML ML spinning rod with a Shimano Sahara SH1000FD with 20#/6 braid for 1/4oz and lighter spinnerbaits and it works fine. This is pretty much all I use this setup for is slow rolling colorado blade spinnerbaits and the rod makes for a good fight with a fish or any real size but it does produce.

I inherited my spinnerbaits so i don't know the weights of them. I know i prefer the light for worms and such, and the med. light for poppers and rapalas, although i like the popper on my medium baitcaster. I was just wondering if any of my gear isn't really suitable for bass fishing or my lures. Like i said, i kind of just grab a rod and go, i more so match my line to what i'll be fishing.

Define "  really suitable for bass fishing "

I see the list of your gear and all of it is suitable for bass fishing. It may not be the best gear selection for fishing a place like my everyday lake that 's choked with submerged trees & brush plus a rocky bottom but I can fish other lakes with that kind of gear pretty comfortably, actually I do, not your brand of rods and reels, but rod types, powers, lengths, actions, and what I fish for is bass.

Well, i used to do a lot of trout fishing when i was younger. Then i got into bass fishing and decided i would like to try baitcasters. So i bought a shakespeare SKP-3000 round to get started and quickly wanted more quality, so i got the quantum. I hadn't used it in years because the rod isnt the easiest to pack away and i ride my bike or walk to a lot of spots, so fitting in a backpack was a must. I don't like two piece casting rods, but may have to breakdown and buy one at some point. I've noticed some lures dont cast far or have good action on some setups. Didn't know if it was the rods action, line size or reel gear ratio. I also at one point a month ago only had a light rod that i could use and the tip was busted so i replaced it myself from a rod that had snapped. The rod that snapped was a 2 piece 7' med action shakespeare excursion, but a HUGE pickerel put an end to that pole. It was originally the mitchell avocet II silver series with that rod & spiderwire super mono ez #10. That was a good all around setup because the tip was whippy enough to cast light stuff but had enough stiffness for different types of fish. And after i tuned that cheap reel up it was amazing.

I began my fishing life fishing for trout in the lakes & ponds in the states that surround Mexico City ( Hidalgo, Edo de M éxico, Morelos ), for many years I fished with only one rod, and not even a good one, actually it was a pretty cheap fibergalss Shakespeare rod paired to a pretty cheap Shakespeare spinning reel, then in 1980 my family moved to where we live now, being a lower below sea level place and a lot warmer than Mexico City bass is the king of sport fishing here, only in very few places up in the sierra you can fish for trout, from 1980 all the way down to 1985 I fished for bass with that very same rod and those very same lures I used to fish trout:

1 Mepps Aglia size 2,

1 Mepps Comet size 2

1 Rapala Minnow size 5 ( silver/black back )

1 Rapala Minnow size 7 ( gold/black back )

Not much huh ? how you think I did with that rod/reel and lures those 5 years ? not bad, wasn 't the greatest but I still caught a lot of fish. Who can tell me serously without a shadow of a doubt that my gear wasn 't "really suited for bass fishing" ?

I've never been able to catch anything on a mepps or similar lure. How did they do?

I've never been able to catch anything on a mepps or similar lure. How did they do?

Like always, learn to fish the lure, many shy away from in-line spinners for various reasons, one ( and I agree ) is that they are hang-up magnets, others because they are "beginner" lures, the only good reason to shy away from them to my eyes is that they are hang up magnets ( probelm that can be solved with some modifications ), but as much hang up magnets as they are they are also fish magnets.

Why you don 't catch fish with them ? location, presentation, timing. Like any other lure, there 's a hundred ways to skin a cat, most people think of them as just chunk and wind and to a point is true, the catch is where you chunk it, when you chunk it and how you wind it.