anyone use a high speed reel for square bills?

[Welaka]

I use a 7.1:1 or a 7.5:1

Will often have a fish swim towards me after being hooked and I feel like it helps me a bit in catching up to them.

I don't think Id ever go back to slower speed reels.

[Bryanmc57]

I understand the concept. Are you throwing a 12" squarebill?

MB Grenade maybe... LOL

[Mark Perry]

MB Grenade maybe... LOL

Such a great bait but it would rattle your whole arm.....

[triton]

I throw them on a spinning pole just because I get better hook sets ... switched this way a few years ago .

[bassfisher444]

I throw them on a spinning pole just because I get better hook sets ... switched this way a few years ago .

Square bill on a spinning rod? No thanks.

[Melton Jason]

I use revo rocket and works fine. Rick Clunn said he learned from an old expert to crank thar squarebill as fast as you can it works!

Revo Rocket and and a 1.0 squarebill ripped is a great reaction bait.

[OkieBud]

6:3 for 99% of uses.. 5:4 for deep cranks

[bassboat1]

7:0 or higher for everything except deep crankbaits.

[Bassjam2000]

7:1 or 28-30ipt is my preferred retrieval rate, sq bills were designed for speed.

[DaveBrabec]

Yes for squarebills and yes for deep cranking. You can’t reel to fast

[Amistad Tackle]

I use revo rocket and works fine. Rick Clunn said he learned from an old expert to crank thar squarebill as fast as you can it works!

This. The best way to get a squarebill to hunt is crank it as fast as you can. I always use 7:1 for my squarebill fishing. You always want the bait on the edge of blowing out. You’ll get twice the bites.

[Poppin' Frog]

7.1 on my squarebill rod. Trust me, you can't physically reel it faster than a bass can catch it if he's eating

[bassfisher444]

I use revo rocket and works fine. Rick Clunn said he learned from an old expert to crank thar squarebill as fast as you can it works!

That was back before they had high speed reels, 4 or 5 to one was all they had back then.

[basscat tyler]

7.5:1 for me

[ColdSVT]

I uses a 5.3:1 and a 6.2 lol

Remember one thing though...gear ratio is one thing...but what is thr IPT on said reel?

[mean_dean]

7.1 for square bills, shallow and medium divers. 5.5 for the big deep baits.

[78Staff]

I'm running a 6.3 (TD-Z PO), but now that summer's here I might switch it over to a 7.1, espeically for smaller SB's.

[ou1dadgumit]

Same here. It’s a lot easier and more functional to keep all the reels the same. How hard is it just to slow down? So we really need a reel to tell us to slow down?

I personally think it's real hard to slow down especially after you just caught one. Guarantee my hand goes twice as fast after catching one fish

[ColdSVT]

I personally think it's real hard to slow down especially after you just caught one. Guarantee my hand goes twice as fast after catching one fish

I have the same problem...hence the 5.3s lol

[BassinPaPaw]

Yes. I don't even own a reel that's less than 7:1 anymore.

Same.