Baitcasters?

[DonF]

Not so funny story about casting bait casting reel's. A friend of my son's went bullhead fishing with me some months ago. Before that when he went with us he always borrowed a spinning rod from me. Guy's an alcholic and likes to run his mouth when he's drinking. Well I have two light low profile set ups for bullheads and asked him if he could cast a level wind. He told me he could do better than I do. So I got one out for him. Got to the lake and his first cast got him the worst backlash I ever saw! So he decide's he gonna straighten it out. Good half hour later he's still working in it so I stopped and went to help him. Ended up he did get all the line off the spool and rewound it back on and that's when I decided to go home. So much for how good he is! I took all that line off when I got home and replaced it. I avoid the guy if I'm going anywhere anymore. Blowhard drunk drives me nuts.

To the OP, try learning to simply toss the weight till you get that down pretty good and then slowly start picking up speed. I learned on a direct drive reel and had a terrible time till I decided I didn't need to cast as far as I could. I use level wind's for pretty much everything except Crappie and small fish, simply like my level wind reels! I'm just guessing but suspect my old Mitchell 300's would catch anything I fish for! The probelmwith them is they aren't level winds!