re: Spinning Reel Question

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Could write a book about the crazy shite I have seen people do on my boat.
I’m going to keep trying to get better at rodn an reeln

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I bet LOL. I was fishing with a young guide a few years ago skipping live baits under docks. He could skip a white bait minnow 40 yards under a dock. I consider myself a pretty competent fisherman but the best I can do is 10 feet. He was getting visibly frustrated because he was catching 4 fish to my one even though I assured him I was ok with that, my inability to do what he could do was not his doing. We moved to fishing mangroves and I was as good a him at skipping baits back in the mangroves. I spotted a 40 inch snook about 5 feet from the mangroves cruising and I said "there's a nice snook..." and proceeded to lob an overhand cast of a mullet about 6 inches long in front of that snook...as soon as the guide saw my cast he said "dooonnnn'ttt....." no doubt meaning do not lob a bait at him, skip it to him. As soon as that mullet hit the water like a concrete block, almost hitting that snook in the head, that snook inhaled the bait and was caught. We looked at one another and he said "well, thats about the time we have...." LOL. Lobbing that bait at that fishes head was not the prescribed manner of presenting a bait in that situation...I did it without thinking, the thing was there, I was turned the wrong way when I saw it and without thinking I just lobbed the bait at him..it worked the same way, that one time, that a perfectly presented bait would have worked...but I am sure after watching me feedly skipping baits 5-10 feet under docks he could skip a bait 30 feet under he had had enough LOL.