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Added on April 19, 2012, 10:28 amHi Fellas,
Perhaps allow me to share my thoughts on BC and micro lures.

Knowing the micro lures are light, therefore the composition of your rod, reel and line(plus a little skillset) is crucial.

To the general caster, anything lesser than 4gram is considered finesse fishing. It does not matter if you are using a small spoon, a softplastic or even hard body lure. It's the weight talk now.

Rod
Use a lighter rod like 4~12lb. To successfully cast out a micro lure you need the flick of the rod tip to push the lure out.

Reel
Gotta use a slightly highend reel. It's the freespooling factor here. If the spool does not rotate freely and easily, it causes much CBH aka birdnest, as the line gonna be eaten back to the reel at higher RPM of the spool. The spool need to be easily reaching certain RPM, not those slow pickup RPM and reach high RPM at later stage. This causes blacklash.

Line
Use lighter line. Eg 4lb or anything below 10lb. Dont worry about busting the line, most of our braided lines are under-rated. It may state 10lb but the breaking strains will reach around 24lb!!! Unless the line are IGFA rated, where it will break before it reaches the mentioned poundage. I personally have landed a 5.2kg wild toman with 4lb IGFA rated line. Almost got into world IGFA record tho.

Lastly, the skill set. Practise makes perfect. Hope this helps.