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You can cast them, but as stated earlier, you can easily snap a rod doing so. I picked up a 7.5' boat rod with a sufficiently large enough FIRST guide (important feature) to allow smoother casting/lobbing.
Most casting rods have big enough 1st guides, but not enough backbone to support the load these lures put on them when going through the motions. This rod was a Bass-pro special ($25) with sufficient backbone and a wide enough guide. Teamed up with a small enough reel (small spool size that is) that can handle 30lb. test line and the fight of good size fish, and I'm ready to rumble.
I had used a m/h boat rod last fall and was able to get a 20-30 foot toss, which resulted in a 30"+ fish on the 9"shad. My earlier test cast in the ditch (east end) didn't result in any fish, but I was hitting 35' -50' cast with little strain on the rod. I'm looking forward to this fall with baited breath.
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