Spinners, in particular, excel in slack water due to their versatility in presentation and retrieve speed
If spooling with braided line, its slickness and lack of stretch can cause it to not grip the spool and spin while reeling or under tension
When the zinc is more than 50% corroded, it should be replaced
Perhaps the oddest variant of the "bait" theme we came across was this story published in the Toronto Daily Mail on 28 May 1891, holding that Jewish babies stolen in Russia were being used as bait to hunt crocodiles in Egypt: For a year or so hundreds of Jewish babies have been stolen and shipped to various ports on the Nile to be used as bait by the crocodile hunters
Mostly bait fishing takes place from an anchored boat
When you start fishing a new spot, get as far up the pool as you can and cast straight out, not upriver and not straight downriver, just straight out toward the far bank and work your float down the river from there