I cast it out, let it fall to the bottom, lift it up, and then follow the slack back down
Good light feel and the knob is comfortable as I use this setup up for jigging
We have our favored brands, but there are a lot of good brands out there, and each of them offers anglers a wide variety of gear ratios for you to select from
It keeps topwaters moving naturally, allows you to cast a country mile, and has the strength to handle violent surface strikes without stretch
With a paddletail, you can straight retrieve it like a swimming baitfish, twitch it off the bottom like a shrimp, hop it through the water column like an injured baitfish, or just about anything else you can think of
Splitting hairs it might sound like, but this is how I reckon something like this Berkley Sick braid at 24lbs breaking strain is quoted as having an incredibly thin diameter of 0.12mm