I bought a rod that cast over 900 feet and have a number or reels capable. I need some guide to study while the weather is waiting to hit spring. All suggestions appreciated.
eBay has several copies.Though it’s not a video, I really recommend a book called Long Distance Casting by John Holden. Genuinely useful. It’s only available used but is well worth finding.
IMO your biggest problem is u’re mixing tournament casting with fishing. 2 different beast. Tournament casting is pushing that extreme edge of glory or blowup! Fishing needs to be reliable and consistent first, distance second. Ain’t going to catch anything at the truck re-spooling. With that, on the beach u have to consider wind direction and speed. If you have a reel set fast casting into a 20 headwind, what u thinks going to happen? Won’t be like a 20 tailwind! Other thing about not finding sinker and leader on crack off, I’m sure u’re walking too far to start. For it to break off, it had to come to sudden stop to snap line. At out last demo, we had plenty of crack offs from big hitters to newbies. All when half or so of their normal distances.I can and do but I seem to get into trouble. Inconsistent, break offs, bird nests, the usual frustrations.I use spinner and conventional. Its funny to launch a 150 gram lead and watch a sinker go in one direction and the bait into a seagulls mouth. I put too much into the finish I think. I've snapped sinkers practicing and walked 1000feet and no sign of the fluorescent 25' leader with sinker. I have the reels, lots of them; Zzeta, rocket, abu, penn, custom made for me bearings, started diamond polishing some, thanks to Tommy Farmers tips, but the rods sweet spot eludes me. Thats why I bought another rod. I just got 4500 meters of night crystal to start up again and fresh supply of N52 magnets. 100 pounds of lead for sinkers.I would need 1000 feet in wildwood just to get the lead under water at high tide.
If you could throw 1/2 that distance you would be getting out further then the great majority of anglers.
I've watched lots of casting and casting tutorials, I can't follow the lead so I'm not sure of the timing. Hopefully the Farmer video clues me in. I even got a greek tackle shop to forward mig 21 sinkers from Roma foundry in Italy. Peckers in Italy won't ship to me. I may carve a mould,
airplane shape to help, lol.