"........Ok, just how many bait rolls are there. I have heard of bullet & tight (the same), wide roll and corkscrew. What else is there? Who uses what?...."
You can surf YouTube for the next two hours to answer that question--- vids of cut-plug rigging, different cut-plug spins, whole herring rigging, different whole herring spins, plastic head bonnets to stick them in, and everything in between.
It is downright silly as to how many different approaches there are to get "the right spin".
A Quote from -steelhead- in an earlier post: ...." The roll that works is completely subjective to each guide, in my humble opinion, as long as it turns its going to catch a fish, although there are some secrets worth keeping in that regard....."
Truer words were never spoken. In my opinion, the best rigging technique and the best spin is the one that gets your bait back into the water the quickest.
Soak time is in direct proportion to catch time. The guys who manicure their bait and trim the tail and pierce the vent and kiss the head of each one before they deploy it make me chuckle. If the bait moves, it'll catch fish. Just get the freaking thing into the water column...
In my experience, if it moves slow (in the salt) , it'll catch more fish and bigger fish. Plug cuts in the river for big springs? Now that's a different story...