Braided Line

As stated,water getting into the housing will sure create a problem. Along with other situations as well.

BobP: This is in ref to your last sentence. I`m one baitcaster who fishes the "Zoom floating worm" , just a lite wire hook, no weight about 50% of the time I`m on the water. Give or take. Living in Fl were "fishing plastics in the grass is a way of life" You either get with the program or ........................ As far as throwing "very light baits reliably" I`ve been at this for a long time and my proficiency/ accuracy distance, is spot on. Granted you need good equipement and lots of experience to accomplish the "art" in anything. After a lot of years ,I`ve gotten there. Just re-read you comment. I thinking one thing and your talking about the .........."REEL." I think! A few years ago I would have agreed but not anymore. Today`s bait casting reels have many more bearings whick certainly improves there ability to assist in casting very lite baits. I just bought a Bass Pro Shop, Tournament bait casring reel. Model, PQT10HB. Use it only for my "floaters." That puppy (reel) is something else. Once adjusted, it seems to have no limits. See your target. Let it fly, Bingo, on target. It replaced a LEW`S reel which up till that time was doing just fine. I`ve got some very old Ambasseduer 5000 reels and they are truly great reels but by todays standards , they are dinosaurs. Looking at the 5000 and looking at todays moderate priced reels, $75-100...........what an up-grade for for folks that use baitcasters. All that being said. any good quality B/C is more than capable of throwiing a ..."light bait reliably." Hope you look at this as a ............Point..... Counter point. Just for the record. I`ve got 31 baitcasters and only 4 spinners.

Spinning or bait caster? Spinning is much easier to use that`s why a lot of people use them .IMO. Somebody who knows how to use a bait-caster will/can blow the socks off a spinning reel user in so far as accuracy and speed of casts goes. As accuracy is the main goal in delivering your lure to a given spot it`s a no-brainer, a bait casting reel in the hands of a proficient user can be on target cast after cast. Just my opinion . I`m not bashing spinners or folks that use them. Or put another way, different strokes for different folks.