How To Cast With Maximum Efficiency To Catch More Fish
- By: Luke Simonds
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Are you struggling to cast with maximum efficiency?
Or are you not catching as many fish as you deserve?
Getting your lures or bait out to where the fish are is a major step toward having on-the-water success, but some anglers have been going about it the wrong way.
Here’s how to cast with maximum efficiency so you can catch MORE fish in LESS time!!
Cast With Maximum Efficiency To Catch More Fish [VIDEO]
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Casting Lures VS. Live Bait Lesson
3rd Floor Balcony Snook (Dart Cast Example)
If you’re fishing an open flat, marsh creeks, or anything in between, it is all about getting your lures out and covering as much water as possible.
Every second your lure is OUT of the water is time lost in the strike zone.
The goal here is to be as efficient as possible.
With this approach, we’re not so much concerned with accuracy as we are just getting the lure out quickly to cover ground.
After each retrieve, snap the bail open and grab the line as normal, then choke up a bit with your bottom hand to quickly launch the lure back out there without any wasted motion.
The key is to generate tip speed which ultimately dictates how far the lure goes.
You may not cast as accurately while choking up, but there is no wasted motion and you will cover all of the water in front of you.
If you’re in a tournament or out casting all day long, this slight adjustment goes a long way.
Especially when fishing an open flat, whoever can cover the most water will find and catch the most fish.
If you want to increase the number of strikes you get on an open flat, then practice this efficiency technique.
Casting Lures VS. Live Bait Lesson
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Good tip Luke!
One thing that is missing in this “CAST WITH MAXIMUM EFFICIENCY TO CATCH MORE FISH” tutorial is there is another tip to include how to cast further which is utilizing the pendulum cast.
Let line out half way of the rod length, and cast, like a whip. This will use the lower length of the rod’s power to whip the lure instead of the top softer parts.
The accuracy is not as good as if the lure is higher up, but with practice it can be. If you just need to cover large amounts of area the pendulum style is really the best to really get maximum efficiency. It is weird to use initially, but once mastered nothing beats is for distance.
Hey Mario,
I’ve seen some fishermen on YouTube do a rotating pendulum cast from the beach to send their lure/bait a very long distance. How can you do a pendulum cast while sitting in the kayak and having stuff behind you that the hook might snag?
Great tips
Hey Luke I just noticed for the first time after watching many of your videos that you switch hands when casting. Your left hand is on top releasing your line and your right hand is on the butt end of the rod, then after casting your right hand moves on top and left hand goes to the reel. Is that they best way to cast a dart or help with accuracy? I’m right-handed and place my right above the reel releasing the line and my left hand is on the butt end of the rod. After the cast I move the left hand to the reel handle. Am I doing it wrong?
When I’m casting across the wind on a windy day, I’m still having a lot of trouble with wind knots. It seems like the wind blows the line off the spool. Any tips?
Great idea, I’ll try it next time out.
Glad to see that you enjoyed this lesson
Do you only cast with both hands for distance. Do you cast with 1 hand for accuracy? Say your casting under mangroves, do you use 1 hand or 2?
I recommend 2 hands for both distance and accuracy when using spinning tackle. If you haven’t yet done so, make sure to watch the Dart Cast lesson in the Casting Mastery course: https://www.saltstrong.com/casting/casting-mastery/distance-casting/
Note: There’s a helpful skip cast lesson in there too that I recommend.
Another good tip.
Thanks David!
Hello Luke,
I aways enjoy your pro tips.
One thing I would like to see a demo on is proper positioning of the lure and distance from the rod top before casting. I struggle trying to guess how much leader to have free swinging before I try flinging it out there. Especially in tight close quarters. A demo with that in mind would be helpful, plus over the head and side ways casting in tight versus open quarters.
Thanks again,
Bob
Great idea! I’ll make sure to do a video on this. In general, I have about 24 to 30 inches of line out when fishing open water so I can keep my leader out of the guides. But when in need of making an accurate cast, I’ll have about 10 inches of leader out and just cast the knot through the guides.
What a great video. I just tried casting by following this technique and WOW. What a difference. Thank you so much for this!
So glad to see that you enjoyed this lesson