Looking for advise for a friend

[Slipknot]

Originally Posted by JohnnySaxatilis

Ya truth. The canal is about 280-300 yrds across. 250 yard cast is a BOMB.

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I don't know where you got that info, but it is a bit off.

more like an average 700 feet across ( I call it 200 yards or so), only place it approaches 900 is at the Dolphins.
540 ft span at the RR bridge, some say 480

[JohnnySaxatilis]

Originally Posted by Slipknot

I don't know where you got that info, but it is a bit off.

more like an average 700 feet across ( I call it 200 yards or so), only place it approaches 900 is at the Dolphins.
540 ft span at the RR bridge, some say 480

K, ya so, average 800ft we'll say. 266 yards. so a 220 yrd cast is BOMB..... thats more accurate

my information was goin off hitting golf balls across the canal in high school when we had away matches. not exactly scientific measurement

But raises an interesting question about accounts of "casting 3/4 across the canal" doesnt it?

[Mike P]

Originally Posted by JohnnySaxatilis

K, ya so, average 800ft we'll say. 266 yards. so a 220 yrd cast is BOMB..... thats more accurate

my information was goin off hitting golf balls across the canal in high school when we had away matches. not exactly scientific measurement

But raises an interesting question about accounts of "casting 3/4 across the canal" doesnt it?

There are only a handful of tournament casting competitors that can consistently cast over 650'. That's in competition, using 13-1/2' ultra fast rods, competition tuned reels, 14# mono, 175 gram aerodynamic weights, standing on a dry grass, level field with good footing. Casting with a full pendulum cast.

I take reports of guys hitting that distance on the Canal with lures, standing on wet rocks or even a wet mussel bed, overhead casting, with a great many grains of salt.

There are only two people that I know who have cast a sinker all the way across the Canal---Ron Arra and Dave Thomashey. Both were top level distance casting competitors.

[Slipknot]

I thinks it's 10 pound mono Mike.


Here is one of the guys I witnessed

it landed on the other side

Big Dave



Yes Johnny, a lot of people exaggerate a bit, but some can make some monster casts.

[timmah]

I witnessed many times casting to the middle makes a huge difference, one time this fall comes to mind where my buddy was out casting me by 40 feet and hooking up every cast where I hooked up only a few times. It was like 20 fish to 4 fish. And i never heard the end of it.

[Slipknot]

the past few years , the breaking fish have been mostly concentrated right in the middle, especially when the tide is running east and moving right along. I'm sure there is a reason for this as the fish push the bait. Being able to reach the middle at those times will certainly help your hooking up since that's where the higher concentrations of fish are at.


I like to jig them up from the middle too