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Holy shucking fit I hit the bar & I come back to baitcaster vs spinning mayhem!? I'm too lit to put together my own "How do I picked rod?" graphic but this guy's image is pretty spot-onto my own freshwater sport-fishing perspective. I mainly target bass but also snakehead, pike, pickerel, muskellunge, & pretty much anything that'll hit a lure. I'm a tackle addict with a preference toward baitcasters; my only do-all setups are my light spinning stuff so every baitcasting setup is purpose-built for a certain lure type... but the biggest take-away anybody should get from this image is that there is a *HUGE* amount of overlap & one setup can cover a lot of lure-choices/fishing-styles. I'm super-compulsive & tailor my setups for every lure type when I could easily combine them but for your beginner baitcaster or anybody just getting into fishing they need to know they can do a whole lot with a single getup instead of dropping thousands or six or ten different combos. If you're just starting out don't piss away your disposable income like I or others do unless you're absolutely sure fishing will be a lifetime hobby. It's too easy to turn two rods into twenty or a 12' jon boat into a 21' duck boat, especially if you're prone to the fishing bug. Start small & combine your setups until you're certain fishing is going to be a lifetime hobby. Otherwise you could easily sink thousands into something you may give up or cut back on a couple years down the road.
Also plenty of surf-casters may use spinning setups (an argument I saw above) but that doesn't somehow nullify the value of either baitcasters or conventional (non level-wind) casting reels in a surf-casting environment. Anybody who immediately discredits casting reels for nonsensical reasons probably had one birds-nest & gave up out of frustration. Both reel types have their pros and cons, something an anon above unjustly got chewed out for already. Playing the middle ground just means both sides hate you, I guess.
