08-07-2012, 11:35 PM
I say practice with a lighter weight and build your self up to heaver weights.
I fish with the heavy weights on the st clare river and I do have to get out aways. with one ounce I am getting out 200 feet. I do have to be careful because that first step of the end of the board walk is 20 down at a good 7 mile an our current. Depending on where on the river I am, I need any where form one ounce to seven pound sinkers. Try holding up a rod with seven pound hanging on the end of it.. lol
I have never used a surf casting rod, I do know they have extra long handles, I do know to get your maximum cast you need to be holding on to the end of the rod, this dose put the reel at some distance from you.. this means you will need to pull the line down the rod to where you are holding and hang on to the line with one finger. Let go of the line when you are at about 10 oclock. "1 oclock being behind you."
once you get used to pulling the line down the handle and letting
go a few times you will start to get out some distance. You just need to get up a good whipping action from your rod.
I am using trolling rods, their handles are only half the lenth of a casting rod. I get away with using pvc tubes when I cast out on lake michigan. I made mine tube 4 feet in lenth so I can fish out chest deap.[cool]
I know on the coast a lot of people will wade out and cast and walk back stripping line out as they go.
Your reel and eyes also plays alot in how far you are casting. I found that the spinning reels cast a lot further on heavy line than will the barrel or bait casting reels do. You may want to look up distance casting for your particular reel..
Keep us up on your progress, if I come across a book or littuture on the subject, I will be sure to pass it along.
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I fish with the heavy weights on the st clare river and I do have to get out aways. with one ounce I am getting out 200 feet. I do have to be careful because that first step of the end of the board walk is 20 down at a good 7 mile an our current. Depending on where on the river I am, I need any where form one ounce to seven pound sinkers. Try holding up a rod with seven pound hanging on the end of it.. lol
I have never used a surf casting rod, I do know they have extra long handles, I do know to get your maximum cast you need to be holding on to the end of the rod, this dose put the reel at some distance from you.. this means you will need to pull the line down the rod to where you are holding and hang on to the line with one finger. Let go of the line when you are at about 10 oclock. "1 oclock being behind you."
once you get used to pulling the line down the handle and letting
go a few times you will start to get out some distance. You just need to get up a good whipping action from your rod.
I am using trolling rods, their handles are only half the lenth of a casting rod. I get away with using pvc tubes when I cast out on lake michigan. I made mine tube 4 feet in lenth so I can fish out chest deap.[cool]
I know on the coast a lot of people will wade out and cast and walk back stripping line out as they go.
Your reel and eyes also plays alot in how far you are casting. I found that the spinning reels cast a lot further on heavy line than will the barrel or bait casting reels do. You may want to look up distance casting for your particular reel..
Keep us up on your progress, if I come across a book or littuture on the subject, I will be sure to pass it along.
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