Check the balance and feel by mounting your reel and making a few practice casts (without a hook or lure)
For many styles of fishing bottom baits for specimen-sized fish, having a baitrunner facility (where the line can be paid out with the fish feeling little resistance but without causing an over-run
Test (lb) Diameter Typical Use 6 0.10 mm Ultra-finesse trout/panfish 8 0.12 mm Finesse bass, drop shot, Ned rig 10 0.14 mm General spinning, light swimbaits 15 0.18 mm Jerkbaits, finesse jigs, inshore flats 20 0.22 mm Moving baits, chatterbaits 25 0.25 mm Heavier cover, small frogs 30 0.28 mm All-around baitcaster braid 40 0.32 mm Swimbaits, inshore snook/redfish 50 0.36 mm Frogging, punching light mats 65 0.45 mm Heavy mats, big topwater 80 0.52 mm Muskie, nearshore duty 100 0.60 mm Heavy cover or big game
Let a large beadhead wooly buggers or Clouser Minnow drop to depth, and then retrieve with a slow strip, imparting occasional twitches
The options are also available in one-piece or two-piece construction