casting

[meoc4life]

did this poll to be a bit interesting i know there are a view other styles hence other so can you please state the one you chose because im trying too fill my brain

[slippery]

the pendy is the one mate but ya need to master off the ground with confidence so you can correctly adapt with swinging the lead without losing contact, I cast off the ground for 5 years then decided to take the pendy challange my distance dropped 20% my frustration was at a tempermental high, but i stuck with it, I now cast my own self taught way it seems to work and have managed to add yards on most people I have taught it to but like everything its finding what suits the individual and not following the sheep.............

[stevieboy]

Heh, maybe you can teach me then mate, I can throw a squid further then I can cast it.

[slippery]

no worries mate, should get ya casting no probs, have not had anybody to teach who after a few lessons cannot get 150yards, perhaps we do that when we go round the back next week, casting to otta space doesnt mean more fish though, I have found it the opposite!!

[solehunter]

Nick is right! The beaches we fish steve, dont need rocket launcher styles! If you could cast only 15ft, you would still have better nights than the horizon brigade ;D
Its a good skill to have though, never know when you will need it!

[stevieboy]

Cool, I feel a birds-nest coming on

Gotta agree with you with regards to distance fellas, not often required but a nice tool to have.

Steve.

[RichardB]

The pendulum is probably the best for flinging to the horizon, but I've voted 'other'. When I am tying to get a bit of distance I use my own hybrid sort of arialised off the ground cast.
It's efficient rather than spectacular.
I have four distances: As far as I can. Medium. Short. Very short.
Like the others have said, long casting is a great tool to have but in my area distance is not the key most of the time.

[slippery]

richardb said:

The pendulum is probably the best for flinging to the horizon, but I've voted 'other'. When I am tying to get a bit of distance I use my own hybrid sort of arialised off the ground cast.
It's efficient rather than spectacular.
I have four distances: As far as I can. Medium. Short. Very short.
Like the others have said, long casting is a great tool to have but in my area distance is not the key most of the time.

my style is the same a off the ground, off the ground!!

[RichardB]

Interesting one this. Me and Steve(bbh) were talking about this yesterday. I can honestly say I've no idea how far exactly, I can cast. I know from having watched others that are expert pendulumers that I certainly am not in their league.
I remember being taught the OTG by the great Neil Mackellow back in the eighties, when the Sea Angler casting roadshow thingy came to Daedelus airfield in Lee-on-Solent.
In the intervening time though, most of my shore fishing effort has centred around bass, i.e. casting in front of my nose. So the lessons were hardly refined to a high degree !

[slippery]

One tip if anybody wants to improve is to get somebody to video you casting then play it back slow you can see all ya probs n ya strengths.......

[darenw]

Interesting post this, learnt the OTG a long time ago when I was using conoflex and daiwa P.Kerry rods with the old 6000s and millionaires (pre magnet) but found it pretty useless once I got fed up with local beaches and started to find a few fish on the rocks. Self taught the pendulum proper with a mate in the 80's.Nowadays I use a lazy pendulum (slower with no lockup proper)) with a short drop which is probably all the rods and reels I use now are good for,it suffices. Its a dangerous style to use IMHO (pendulum) if there is anyone close to you and I wouldnt use it with anyone to my right ever(I cast across the right shoulder) Seen a few near disasters in my time , a loose led flying the wrong way could kill yer. My fav. cast these days is the underhand lob cos this means Im close in after bass
Daren

[darenw]

NB Its all technique IMO,not just brute force,bit like a good golf swing it looks effortless when its done right. (sorry about mentioning golf

[slippery]

darenw said:

Interesting post this, learnt the OTG a long time ago when I was using conoflex and daiwa P.Kerry rods with the old 6000s and millionaires (pre magnet) but found it pretty useless once I got fed up with local beaches and started to find a few fish on the rocks. Self taught the pendulum proper with a mate in the 80's.Nowadays I use a lazy pendulum (slower with no lockup proper)) with a short drop which is probably all the rods and reels I use now are good for,it suffices. Its a dangerous style to use IMHO (pendulum) if there is anyone close to you and I wouldnt use it with anyone to my right ever(I cast across the right shoulder) Seen a few near disasters in my time , a loose led flying the wrong way could kill yer. My fav. cast these days is the underhand lob cos this means Im close in after bass
Daren

I always use 80lb shock ,80lb rig bodys, and try and fish as far away from anybody on my right as poss even if it involves walking 500 yards past where i want to be!! I use a progressive slow swing and only put the power in when everything is facing towards the sea. I also would say that people who do like blasting it in busy areas/competions should have insurance cover as well cause its going to cost ya loads if it happens to you! I think your covered if member of nfsa?? does anybody know the facts on that one?

Technique, is as daren said the key, with everybody I have given pointers to my first tip is always slow down, its amazing to see how hard some find it to do! but unless your timing is correct you are wasting your time, thrashing in the wind..

[darenw]

A longer rod can help too if its distance you want and you haven't got a distance "style".IMO

[willow]

I picked up some good advice on this forum a few months back, the major problem I had was snatching at my cast, It would give me the most distance I was capable of but within a session I would suffer numerous B.N's. I then changed my mainline to one with a bit bigger diameter & the birdsnests are much reduced & I still have a respectable distance.