His guests use both fly fishing and spinning gear.

If you use conventional rather than spinning gear, you can feel line imperfections while reeling in your lure.

He declined, saying that he was going to resort to spinning gear.

In such situations it is wise to switch to spinning gear, even if one favors a conventional reel.

My son caught a 26-inch bass on spinning gear and lost a truly large one in the wash.

But if catching fish is your first consideration, use spinning gear.

Most of Dawson's clients are fly fishers, but those who use spinning gear are also welcome.

I've never been very good at it, and it's probably just as well that the wind was up and we used spinning gear.

But he readily concedes that "you can take a lot more fish on spinning gear."

The same is true when spinning gear is used.