Are you a precision caster?

[soflabasser]

Being an accurate caster is like anything in life, the more you practice the better you get.

[Bubba 460]

35 minutes ago, WRB said:

The key for me to being accurate is keeping the boat the distance from targets you the distance you are best at hitting.

 

YES, I agree with that ~ I cast better at longer ranges 50'+ than I do up close. In fact I don't even like being up close, I don't want the fish to know I'm there. I'm pretty good at Hail Mary bombs right up to a big lay-down or the bank. 

[Tennessee Boy]

I wouldn’t say my accuracy is that good but my trick shots are amazing.   I can cast my line over a limb that’s 25 ft up and directly over my head without even knowing the limb is there. ? 

[Log Catcher]

30 minutes ago, Tennessee Boy said:

I wouldn’t say my accuracy is that good but my trick shots are amazing.   I can cast my line over a limb that’s 25 ft up and directly over my head without even knowing the limb is there. ? 

When are you and @king fisher going to pay me for those casting lessons I gave you?

[Raul]

Am I a precision caster ? 

 

yes I am, had to learn to be dead accurate because of where I fished, lots of tiny ponds surrounded by brush or overhanging tree limbs, weedbeds that had "holes" in them, tule covered shallows where you had to put your bait into the tiny pockets or small lakes with tons of submerged brush and trees.

[JustJames]

I think I’m good most time when I aim at logs or three branches, I always cast right onto it.??? 

[Koz]

I'm pretty accurate when it comes to casting. I practice a lot throwing under docks and under trees along the bank. But I'm not immune to having to pull my kayak up to the bank and dislodge a bait from some shrubbery. (A shrubbery!)

 

Casting from a kayak - at least my kayak - is a bit of an art form. Between rods behind me, a pedal drive in front of me, and my Lowrance to the left or right of me I have obstacles to navigate with what is usually a cast somewhere between sidearm and 3/4 overhand.

 

 

[DitchPanda]

I'm a pretty good caster both casting and spinning...no expert by any means but can usually get where I want.

[ThrowinPlugs]

Sometimes. Ill say an honest 70% of casts/skips end up where intended. But sometimes I cast and it makes me go 'what the heck was that".

 

Surfcasting though, surgical. 

[papajoe222]

I fished spinning gear for the first 30yrs and could put a lure exactly where I wanted it 9 out of 10 times. My dad said I had my arm calibrated perfectly. I switched to baitcasting about 30yrs ago and lost that ability with spinning gear somewhere along the way. After a wrist injury followed by a shoulder one, I learned to roll cast. I got so good at it, I never learned to pitch with any degree of accuracy. I just back off 10yrds or so and gently drop it in there.  The only time I cast overhand is when fishing cranks, that's also the only time I backlash!

[David 7]

I’m hit or miss but I don’t get hung up on trees so that puts me ahead of the game in my book. I saw one of the pros (don’t remember who) say that the first step to being a better bass fisherman is improved casting accuracy. It does make since especially if you’re throwing into heavy cover.

[schplurg]

I'm pretty good during the day. At night, watch out man!

 

But I do find that the more I try to steer my bait at night the more likely I am to cast off target. If I cast relaxed and don't worry about it I'm way better.

 

I usually cast sidearm at night off a dock with a canopy btw, so they can go pretty wild.

[Sphynx]

I can be reasonably accurate, but the thing that really makes me smile is when I can accurately present a lure and do it quietly with little or no disturbance of the water to spook away fish, and that is a thing I still need work on, there's also such a thing as being accurate with one cast, like a side-arm, but not with a back hand or off hand cast, both of which I have also identified as areas needing improvement. I will say that my skipping game has improved drastically this year, and the spinning rod has been the best tool I own for improving it without blowing up reels full of expensive braid or FC, maybe a smarter guy would just spool a reel with straight mono to practice with, but I can be the most incurably lazy devil to ever stand in shoe leather, so I just went with a spinning setup

[Bluebasser86]

The more expensive the bait I've tied on, the less accurate I become.

[Catt]

I can hit the water 100% of the time!

[islandbass]

I do alright. I ain’t the best but I ain’t the worst either. I probably hit my intended target 80% of the time. 
 

However, I am a master of a little known subset of precision casting. Since I suffer from this the most I’ll dub it the IB precision cast and it typically happens when I am underhand casting a spinning rig

 

Let’s say my intended was a spot 40’ away. I will be online with the target but miss it short by about 2’. Sometimes it will bother me such that I immediately reel back the lure and re-cast. And guess what? I will missing my intended target precisely by that same 2’ like 5 times in a row.

 

That is IB precision casting. Super precise, but not the intended target. ?

 

I look okay on the outside but inside I’m steaming like Yosemite Sam gets when Bugs riles him up, lol. I bet the bass are laughing too.

Bass: “Come on, IB. I ain’t hitting your t-rigged senko if you’re pitchin’ it that short. I have a rep to protect. One more miss, and I’m outta here, lol.”
 

[Biglittle8]

No

[TcRoc]

If you just heard audio of my voice while I’m fishing would give you the answer. 

[Koz]

8 hours ago, papajoe222 said:

I fished spinning gear for the first 30yrs and could put a lure exactly where I wanted it 9 out of 10 times. My dad said I had my arm calibrated perfectly. I switched to baitcasting about 30yrs ago and lost that ability with spinning gear somewhere along the way.

Same thing here. It's weird how I lost all touch with spinning gear.

[N Florida Mike]

If you do anything enough you get better at it… that being said , once and awhile I’ll make a cast and just sit there and shake my head , wondering how I could make a cast like that at this point.

I am more accurate with spinning, because I use spinning more. It just fits my kind of fishing better. I am most accurate with skipping. I do it sometimes when I dont have to ! That subtle presentation doesnt spook the fish , and results in more bites, which equals more fish.

I mainly use casting for open water fishing with less trees around… I already catch enough “ log salmons “ as it is…

I also am mainly fishing out of a 12 foot jon boat or a 10 foot bass hunter ,with a friend along, and the angle when casting with a bait caster is more difficult for me than spinning… trying not to snag the friend!

[NoShoes]

When I’m on I would say casting is about my only strong suit bass fishing. I can put a 1/4 oz Texas rig about anywhere I want besides in a fishes mouth.....

[NHBull]

For me it is like golf.

 

Certain baits and conditions I do better with certain rods and boat distences.

 

That said, my spinning setups are like my driver.....God only knows there it's going to land, but I get good distance  ?

[scaleface]

On those long overhand lobs toward visible targets  , most of the cast is wasted and you just  cant be efficient that way . Watch Glens videos . He does an excellent job casting , the bait stays in the strike zone longer and he presents it to more fish . Its the difference between catching a few fish and a few dozen . 

[NoShoes]

6 minutes ago, scaleface said:

On those long overhand lobs toward visible targets  , most of the cast is wasted and you just  cant be efficient that way . Watch Glens videos . He does an excellent job casting , the bait stays in the strike zone longer and he presents it to more fish . Its the difference between catching a few fish and a few dozen . 

 
what you mean wasted?

[galyonj]

Total crapshoot. It's as much your guess as it is mine where the lure lands when I cast.

 

Little bit different story when I'm pitching, but I'm able to practice that a lot more often – I can get to my back yard a lot more often than I can get to the water.