Bass fishing with live baits calls for a fairly light spinning rod along with a fixed spool reel loaded with 15 lb line straight through.
My husband rigged his spinning rod and walked across the Old Mill's picnic area to the nearby sea wall.
They had brought with them a five-foot spinning rod and had no difficulty in catching half a dozen eager little trout in half an hour.
Often at the peak of the action someone using a one-handed spinning rod with which he cannot control his fish comes racing down the line of anglers shrieking, "Fish on!"
He put on a pair of cutoffs, slipped into some toeless sneakers, slathered on some Cutter's and grabbed his spinning rod out of the car.
But I headed south anyway, and as I strung up a light spinning rod, I could hear the radiator hissing away in the corner of my rental.
Ward cast a spinning rod and top-water plug while I tossed a Schminnow close in to the banks with my 8-weight fly rod.
I climbed back into the First Shot and grabbed a spinning rod as well.
I got my spinning rod from the garage and biked up to the drawbridge at Snake Creek.
I tried a Clauser's Minnow (a bucktail streamer) and Keith started with a Rattler on a light spinning rod.