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Take a walk along a typical beach. Where its just sand with possible bowls , bars troughs , etc you usually do well in close. Now you come to a rocky point. Suddenly you will do better if you can work the entire length that that rocky points extends into the water. They are sometimes in close but sometimes off the tip , far out there. Now you come to an outflow of a river or something like a breachway. You can simply drift lure , bait etc out into the outflow. Now suppost you have a place like The Canal. Every inch of that , length and width , could hold a fish. In that case the longer you can cast , the more potential you have. You may not need to cast as far as you can every time but having the potential to do so is a valuable asset.
Now lets go back to the nearly feautureless beach. Its no longer June , its late August into Sept and into the fall. Now in addition to fish just hangng in close feeding , you have many many pods of fiosh coming by , surface feeding so you can see them , but far out. I can remember hundreds of times when I could see Albies too far out in late august/sept , then big schools of stripers just 50 yards past where I could reach. Now I know there are guys around who can cast that extra 50 yards. They would have gotten fish.
So while stripers may be in close a lot , there are places , structure , times of year , stages of tide where even in the same general places , the ability to cast far is a good skill to have.
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