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For me, it depends on when and what I'm using. If tins and pencils max distance is a lot more important during the day and at 1st light than when throwing swimmers at night. But if I'm throwing eels at night I found a few more feet can be the difference from getting the attention of the fish out a little further and drawing them in or not (and that is why I prefer eels 14-18" long with some heft rather than shoestrings - heft=rod load=distance). I believe with eels a lot of times the bass will follow into the 1st wave where they have all of the advantages - the eel is pinned to the beach so it can't escape towards shore or down, and the eel can't swim through the wave action like the bass can. Many times when I was just about to pull the eel out of the water for another throw the bass would strike 5' away (it made me learn to complete the whole retrieve, just like finishing a check in hockey). You think that that bass is just in the 1st wave, but I think she's been stalking and it's time to strike.
Then again, when I'm sight fishing in the spring in daylight it is not uncommon to seen a cow run the gutter 5' from shore straight down the beach.
It is better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.
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