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What's the best way to cast longer?
To improve your casting distance, there are a few things you can do. First and foremost, practice is key. You can practice your casting technique in your backyard or at a park if you don't have access to a backyard. Set up targets, like paper plates or cans, and practice casting at different distances. The more you practice, the more consistent and accurate your casts will become.
Another tip for improving casting distance is to make sure you have the right rod power for the lure you're using. If your lure is too light or too heavy for your rod and reel setup, it can affect your casting accuracy and distance. So, make sure you have the appropriate rod power for your lure to maximize your casting potential.
In addition, it's important to have the lure hanging far enough from the tip of your rod before making the cast. If the lure is too close to the tip or on the tip, you won't be able to achieve the desired distance. So, make sure there is enough distance between the lure and the tip of your rod before casting.
Another tip for improving casting accuracy is to keep the rod tip in front of your face when making the cast. This helps with alignment and allows you to use your wrist effectively. Remember, casting is all about wrist movement, not arm movement. So, keeping the rod tip in front of your face and lining up with your target can help improve your accuracy.
Lastly, when practicing, try to mimic the conditions you'll encounter while fishing. If you're flipping and pitching, stand up on something to simulate being on the deck of a boat or on the bank. This can help prevent the tip of your rod from hitting the ground and improve your overall casting technique.
Remember, practice is key, and even professional anglers spend a lot of time practicing their casting off the water. So, keep practicing and you'll see improvements in your casting distance and accuracy over time. Good luck and have fun out on the water!
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More Casting Distance And Accuracy | How To | Bass Fishing by Bass Fishing Tips & Techniques by BassResource → All right, so you want to improve your casting
distance and accuracy. Yeah, you do. I've heard this by a lot of people ask this all the time.
How can you improve casting accuracy and distance? So let's talk about some of that things.
First of all, let's talk about the main thing you can do, the number one thing you
can do to improve your casting ability, and that's to practice. Now what I mean by that, the
thing about bass fishing, pretty much everything you do and how to do stuff is on the water. But
casting, you can do it off the water. So do it in your backyard or go to a park if you don't have
access to a backyard. But I remember doing this when I was a kid. My dad set up paper plates out
in the backyard or cans. And you just target. You just practice over and over and over, casting at
that target, getting better and better at it. And you move it at different locations, further away.
The more you do that, the idea is to be consistent and just keep doing it until you can get on
that plate every time at different distances. Once you get that, then you wanna take it up a
notch, and the way to do that is to try to get it to land on the paper plate without bouncing.
That's really hard to do, especially if you're doing an overhand cast. But the minimal amount
of bouncing is what you want. You control that
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More Casting Distance And Accuracy | How To | Bass Fishing by Bass Fishing Tips & Techniques by BassResource → your rod power with your lure so you don't have
way too light of a lure or too heavy of a lure for the rod and reel that you're using. That can
make a big difference with your casting accuracy and distance. So with these tips in mind, you're
gonna go out and be a lot more accurate and you're gonna have that distance that you want. Now
go out, hit the water, and have a lot of fun.
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More Casting Distance And Accuracy | How To | Bass Fishing by Bass Fishing Tips & Techniques by BassResource → to catapult that lure out there. If it's just a
stick of a rod, you're gonna have a lot tougher time throwing it. Another quick tip is make sure
you have the lure far enough hanging from the tip before you make the cast. If the lure is
all the way up next to the tip or on the tip, you're not gonna get any distance out of it.
So that's just another quick little tip to do. Now for improving your casting accuracy. So yeah,
again, going back to practice, that's going to help. But here's a quick tip. I was very fortunate
that Stan Fagerstrom lived up in my area. Stan was known for a master caster. He was incredible. He
actually did a lot of trick-casting shows. Just amazing what he could do with a rod and reel. And
I was very fortunate that he's actually a member of my bass club for decades. And so I learned a
lot from him. He's an amazing guy. And you know, he's, God rest his soul. But one of the things
that he taught me as far as accuracy is concerned is if you really want to be spot on accurate is
keep the rod tip, the rod in front of your face. When you make that cast, get the rod right in
front of your face and line up with your target and then make your cast. Because casts are all
wrist. It's not arm, it's wrist. So you can do it. right in front. Right?
It does a couple things.
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More Casting Distance And Accuracy | How To | Bass Fishing by Bass Fishing Tips & Techniques by BassResource → Another thing you can do when you're practicing is
find something to stand up on, to mimic being on the deck of a boat or on the bank. It's really
hard when you're doing flipping and pitching, especially when you're on the ground, the nose,
the tip of the rod can hit the ground. So stand up on something. If you're outdoors in a park,
find a park bench, find a picnic table and stand up on that. Or if you're in the house, maybe
a bucket, be careful, or get up on a chair or something like that, a ladder, something to get
you up off the ground a little bit and imitate what it's like to be on the bank or on a boat.
That can really help. It makes a big difference. So that's like the first thing you
do, just practice, practice, practice. There's nothing... I know a lot of pros, and I'm
not trying to boast here. It's just the nature of the work I do. Every single one of them, man, they
are amazing at casting. It blows me away. I mean, what they can do. I'm like, wow. The reason
to me is this repetition, repetition, repetition. Every single one of them will tell
you that they have done a lot of practicing off the water to get as good as they are. Every
last one of them to a tee will tell you that. That is the critical component to getting better
at casting. But there's other things you can do.
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More Casting Distance And Accuracy | How To | Bass Fishing by Bass Fishing Tips & Techniques by BassResource → on. We've caught a few. Not what I thought we'd
catch and it's a good place to catch a big one. We hadn't done that yet. We're not giving up.
Glenn: I finally asked him, like, "What is going on?" Well, he had the brakes completely off. And
that goes back to your practice. Practice backing off on the brakes to the point where you can have
the brakes off as much as you possibly can stand and then get better and better from there. The
less brakes you have, the further distance you're gonna get. I mean, that's just pure physics. So
and the less effort too. You don't have to throw as hard. So of a day of fishing, your arms and
wrists, forearms are not gonna be as tired. I mean, my forearms were aching after that day with
Hank Parker because I was trying to match him and it wasn't gonna work. It wasn't gonna happen.
You know, he is who he is because of, you know, he's Hank. So that's the best way to get distance.
Another one is also with your rods, make sure you're using a medium-heavy power rod with a fast
tip. You don't want a broomstick, like a heavy, heavy, heavy power, because it's just a stick with
a slight...just the tip has flex. The more flex across the entire length of the rod will enable
you to fling that bait out further. Use the rod
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How To Cast A Baitcaster | How To Adjust A Baitcasting Reel | Fishing Reel by Bass Fishing Tips & Techniques by BassResource → As a matter of fact, as time goes on, and
as you get more and more practice, your distance will get there. It'll come. It'll come later. Don't worry about it. If you try hard right now to throw as far
as you can, I guarantee you will get a backlash. So, first off, forget about your distance,
it doesn't matter. What matters is technique and accuracy. As a matter of fact, a great way to do this
is to practice in your backyard. Set up a target and aim for it, one that's
not very far away. Don't try to hurk it all the way across your
yard, you're going to be disappointed about the results. Focus on something within your range, and
focus on that accuracy. Now when you cast, again, it, it's wrist. And you don't need to bring the rod, way past,
over here behind your head. No. Because when you do that, you don't know in
which direction it's going to go, and it's hanging back here, who knows, when you fire
forward, it's going to go somewhere. Keep it right in front of you, Okay? Keep the rod, right in front of you. That's the best way to keep it accurate. So all it is, you might go a little bit past
your shoulder, but it's just a little cast like that. It's really light. It's not much. It's all in the wrist. Watch my wrist again. It's just... wrist. Okay? Very simple, straight forward.
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