I don't use spinning gear at all. Do you?

[Dalleinf]

Being in Alaska we sometimes have very target rich environments and I have gone both ways, but have come back around to mostly spinning gear. For King (large) salmon I use both interchangeably but for the remainder of the Salmon species I use light tackle (6-10lb test) with that said I have found that baitcasting reels do not hold up well, I find myself doing teardowns on my baitcasters every 8-10 hours of use Max to keep from ruining the gears, and if it's raining hard I find most baitcasters are not protected well from the elements and if soaked from a heavy rain it only takes a handful of fast or long runs from fish and you can feel what were smooth gears quickly going away. I find that Spinning reels are smoother, more durable and versatile. I have bought so many sets of primarily Shimano gears (Metanium 13, MGL, Curado 301, 201 and Tatula gears) no matter what grease I have tried that I'm rarely use them anymore and have started selling them off. Conversely I have Stradic CI4+ FA's, Stradic FJ's, Certate LT's and even Fuego's LT's that have years on them are still butter smooth with only normal maintenance.

Kurt

Interesting. Quite the opposite of what I have been taught. I do not have rivers nearby that put hurt on reels. I mainly fish small streams and (sadly) cannot imagine any fish or condition that can affect the smoothness of my reels . Saltwater has not been good to my low profile baitcasters even though I take good care of my reels. In contrast, my spinning reels handle salt better (no reel loves being submerged/dunked). Salmon fishermen in Norway and Sweden, where they have rivers and fish that match Alaska, use a lot of Ambassadeur reels. Have you used Ambassadeurs or other round reels (Conquests etc) ?