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My game has lots of emphasis on long casting...If you can't bomb it out there you'll never know what your missing that is for sure..
Are there times when I feel I am wasting time casting way out.Absolutely, But I can always throttle back.
I can tell ya what, there's a spot in the canal lots of folks fish with jigs today.They did not know this spot existed when they fished it with mono.I was talking with Slip about this this smorming.
This fall I was fishing in Montauk through one of the blitzes.I could see a obvious shelf about a hundred or more yards away.While everyone was catching 10-15 lb keeper fish right at their feet with these little bucktails.I put on a pencil and made a looong cast's.My friend looks at me like I have a third eye.Well he was changing lures quick when he noticed the size of the blow-up I had and the mid 20 lb fish I was reeling in.There was three of us in the middle of about fifty guys catching these much better fish that IMO where riding along the edge of the shelf.While everyone else was just awestruck.
I can list many many times the long cast has worked to my advantage..
One night a few years ago in Montauk we had a decent bite on needles and darters the usual fair.10-20 lb fish.
Well as the tide dropped the bite slowed down.I could see the boat guys working the ripp out in front of me still catching em.I ALWAYS pay attention to the boat guys.
Anyways this told me the fish dropped out and not down tide as they sometimes will at this spot.The next night I was prepared.I put a lure on that I could cast further than the SS darter.When the same thing happened about mid tide I changed it up..I had six fish in a row the last one easily over 35 lbs that straightened my siwash hook in front of me.I kept asking my friend who continued to go fishless,if he wanted what I was using but he declined.Determined to figure it out with his own lures...Till I dropped the big one right in front of me.
I could go on and on..
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