Trick Casting

[Texas Pride]

I saw some you tube vedios of people with such dead on acuracy one would get a guy to throw a coke can in the air and he could hit coke cans out of the air im kinda good at fliping pitching and roll casting but dose any one have tips on hiting cans out of the air or any advice i practice a good bit in my back yard casting in a big plastic tub but my skills are no were near that good and would like to get that good

[Montanaro]

I don't plan on knocking cans out of the air while on the lake.

Doesn't quite translate to softly landing a crankbait over a laydown.

[OroBass]

I try to hit targets. It started when my son bet me I couldn't hit a soda can in his hand. I hit it! Practice hitting moving targets. Practice and practice.

[Texas Pride]

Well i want to do it just because its cool to do and i practice alot but i still need more

[John G]

I don't plan on knocking cans out of the air while on the lake.

Doesn't quite translate to softly landing a crankbait over a laydown.

I'll bet it translates into anything you want if you are good enough to knock cans out of the air when casting! It's like Byron Ferguson shooting the longbow. He can hit anything up, down, left, right, straight ahead etc. 

[Team9nine]

If you look at a lot of the trick casters from back in the day (Stan Fagerstrom, Shag Shahid) as well as some of the newer "Master Casters," there are a couple things they tend to have in common. One is their use of short rods, pistol grips in many instances, and typically measuring between 5'2" and 5'6." For short, accurate "trick" casting, those type rods were hard to beat. Another thing is the rods action. Many of the trick casters wouldn't use graphite rods. Instead, they used fiberglass rods (or at best, composites)  of lighter action because of their parabolic curve and ability to easily load. Frequently these rods were so flexible that they really weren't even applicable to fishing typical bass tackle with. In other words, you wouldn't want to use them for worm or jig fishing because of how "soft" they were - but they were perfect for trick casting demos. Another is line. Most would use very limp and lighter weight line, max of 10lb. test in mono. Many went to braid when it came out, focusing around the 20# range, but again, because of the limpness. Lastly, the other big thing is practice - lots and lots of practice. Watching someone do something on a video once or twice, when they could have taken hours of filming and edited out just those one or two great shots, can be a bit misleading. Like anything else, the more you practice, the better you'll get.

 

-T9

[Montanaro]

If you look at a lot of the trick casters from back in the day (Stan Fagerstrom, Shag Shahid) as well as some of the newer "Master Casters," there are a couple things they tend to have in common. One is their use of short rods, pistol grips in many instances, and typically measuring between 5'2" and 5'6." For short, accurate "trick" casting, those type rods were hard to beat. Another thing is the rods action. Many of the trick casters wouldn't use graphite rods. Instead, they used fiberglass rods (or at best, composites) of lighter action because of their parabolic curve and ability to easily load. Frequently these rods were so flexible that they really weren't even applicable to fishing typical bass tackle with. In other words, you wouldn't want to use them for worm or jig fishing because of how "soft" they were - but they were perfect for trick casting demos. Another is line. Most would use very limp and lighter weight line, max of 10lb. test in mono. Many went to braid when it came out, focusing around the 20# range, but again, because of the limpness. Lastly, the other big thing is practice - lots and lots of practice. Watching someone do something on a video once or twice, when they could have taken hours of filming and edited out just those one or two great shots, can be a bit misleading. Like anything else, the more you practice, the better you'll get.

-T9

This, didn't have time to type it out

[deaknh03]

I once "trick" casted an aruku shad about 250 yards..small dig in with braid..loaded up for a long distance cast, and I did get the distance, just nothing to retrieve. I can teach you how to do this, it's fairly easy.