6'10 baitcasting rod 6'6" Medium Heavy Redesigned and better than ever Abu Garcia Conolon Premier 6'6"

While both types of fishing reels come in a wide variety of gear ratios (i.e., the number of turns the spool makes for each turn of the handle), baitcasting reels tend to be more widely-available in super-fast retrieves like 8:1 and 9:1

Gear Setup : Pair topwater lures with a 776 medium-heavy casting rod, a 6.3:17.1:1 reel, and 1520 lb fluorocarbon or 4065 lb braid for optimal control

Idle gear with ball bearings To improve the rotation performance of the spool, two BBs are also placed on the connected idle gear shaft

A 20lb Test break braid for any of us has to break lower than 20lbs because somewhere along the line we have to use a knot - which might be a bloody knot, but its still a knot, and as close to 100% as I believe a good FG knot can get to, a knot changes how a line performs to some extent

By doing your research and identifying the best baitcasting rod & reel combo, youre checking the first box of fishing which is having confidence in your gear