st croix fluking rod Triumph Inshore Spinning Rods – J&H Tackle St. Croix Triumph Inshore Spinning

it all comes down to your technique and the bait you're throwing

With adjustable features and easy installation, you can customize your setup for optimal convenience

And slow, steady retrieves are tops in cold water

Im wondering if its because my braid is a few months old (havent lost much of the original spool)

In lay man terms, the Static friction between two surface is usually higher than the Kinetic friction between the same surface, that's why we normally get a jerking effect at the instance the spool start moving, in tackle terms this is sometimes refer to as "start-up" effect, once the spool starts to move you actually need less force to overcome the kinetic friction to keep it moving

There were hard rubber swirled reels and swirled Bakelite but those were brown