Quote Originally Posted by Gabepeeps View Post
Do any of you long liners use baitcasters? I've always used spinning reels and I recently started to measure and mark my line at 80ft with the fluorescent string bobber stops to have an easy gauge of how much line i have out. I can adjust the depth of my jigs easier that way and give them the proper vertical stagger. But casting them out on spinning reels, the line gets caught on the bobber stops which is a pain. I was wondering if baitcasters would be easier to do this with. The bobber stops wouldn't catch the line, in theory anyway, because of the way it comes off the reel.
You are using a lot of line behind your boat, how are you doing in your turning. While the spawn it on about 30' of line is all I will run out, other times maybe 50' or a good throw out that I'm guessing is around 40 to 50'. I have tried to run more line out but have a ton of lines cross up and other boats running over my lines in tight places.