Another problem with using the 200 DHSV's for spoon fishing is that if you are fishing in the spring for big fish, they don't have the drag capacity to really stick it to a big fish, with a big hook, without sending six feet of line out the end of the reel...the 300's have a drag that is five times stronger, and the retrieve rate is more conducive to fine tuning your spoon during the cast...

MetalHead, unless you are fishing fairly shallow water (i.e., four feet deep), in the winter if you aren't constantly giving and taking line to keep your spoon "in the groove", then you are really only fishing during the times your swing and the correct depth randomly occur coincidentally...that's why you don't use spinning reels to fish with spoons, you can't give and take line properly.

Fish on...

Todd