I’ve been surf fishing for three years. Out right now practicing the way you explain it in this video and already casting 10 yards more. Thanks!

I’ve been surf fishing for over 40 years and you’ve described that perfectly 👍🎣 great job!

Nice!! Not condescending, spot on.

The follow through, in aiming with the rod, is so very important! 🎣

Great point on tightening the drag.

Been casting in a very similar fashion but what you mentioned about adjusting the drag to the level you mentioned was something new for me. Will definitely try it out next time I go fishing, thanks mate

Thank you for your great tutorial. I have learned some new surfing tips and skills from here. Will give a try in a few coming days

Hi there buddy! Try to cast the same way as in the video but with your hands outstretched and after you let go of the line keep your rod at an 45 degree angle . You will see major improvements in distance! Also your reel size its an important factor when it comes to cast long distances. I would say for your rod a 7000 reel would work perfect togheter. After all these are just some tips, if you wanna count them fine if not still fine. Push with your right and pull with your left. Keep working and keep posting cause i love your videos. Grettings from Romania!!!

Very good information thank you I’m going to try it this weekend

Lot of great tips!

Just watched your '100 yard' surf casting video and enjoyed it. You covered alot of ground. Hard to do in a quick lesson. You probably have many years of power casting. So do I. My comments come from 2 tips I have learned and use. 1) The 10 to 1 rule/ ratio. For a 2 oz. Pyramid use 20 lb. line (mono or braid). For 3 oz. lead us 30 lb. line and on and on. When putting the muscles into it a 'SNAP OFF' can be the most dangerous thing around surf casting. Maybe some viewers aren't ready for 'shock leader class' but I always use the 10 to 1 rule. Last but not least' finally. On the ready...set.... go on the cast. I use the ready...set...check the weigh, little pendulum swing away from you......go. Starts the rod loading up even before your swing. With all that being said you probably can out cast me on my best day which was like 30 years ago.

Great video watched it several times.

Great tips!

The best tutorial I’ve ever seen

Great points! I’ll watch this again before going to the OBX next week!

Good info. Thanks!👍

Great fishing tips

Many thanks. Really helpful for a newbie like me, casting off a rocky coastal spot. ☺

great instructional video, thanks for the detailed info..

Great tips thank you

Thanks for the video I just picked up a 9 foot penn wrath combo gonna be putting this into practice its definitely alot more rod than the 7 footers I'm used to slinging baits with

Well done nice and simple . Fan from Australia

Natural coach, certainly would be surprised if this gentleman had not coached sports previously. His tempo on casting was just at the perfect speed for me so I did not have to constantly go back in video. Being in the North East, another month or so and stripers will arrive on Cape Cod and I will practice what he preached.

What a great video. Just started surf casting on Long Island NY this past Fall. Picked up a 10’ Penn Battalion and a Penn Slammer 6500 DX. Going to use your tips to improve my casting,

I've been surf fishing for about 10 years but I've never heard about tightening the drag. I'll try that next time I'm out. Thanks.

Thank you! Appreciate you taking the effort to help all us newbs 😅

Hey I watched this video yesterday before going sturgeon fishing. I managed to get at least 30 yards further. Thanks man

Great video 👍🏼

Good video .. I’m going to be surf fishing in Destin next week.. will be utilizing them techniques..

Great informational video👍👍 I learned those use a glove and tighten your drag tips the hard way.

Thanks for the tips! Man those are beautiful fishing conditions you got there! Waters like glass, it's so flat!

great tips

Great video. Like someone said earlier- check out the rod "lure" weight ratings. I can cast a 3oz sinker with bloodworms far as heck. Now if Im using a whole surf clam or a big chunk of bunker- my casting distance is incredibly reduced. Single dropper loop rigs tend to get out waay farther than a fishfinder rig.

Great video! Another alternative that most of us Cape Cod Canal fisherman use for finger protection is hockey tape or medical tape. Cheap and effective. Also thinner braid will improve distance but if you are fishing rocky areas I suggest thicker braid.

Holy cow, this guy is a great teacher

Great Video. Thanks buddy...

Awesome tutorial. Really appreciate it. I have a number of surf rods ranging from 10 to 15 foot. Haven’t had much opportunity to cast them. Hopefully I’ll get some practice this season if the weather and my lower back cooperates. 👍🏾💯

The set up you lot use over there is totally different to what we use in Ireland. We'd typically use 12-16ft rods throwing 4-8 oz leads

I'm a 5'5 160 pound chick. I've always loved fishing but really starting going fishing these past couple years. Also don't have many chances to go having a 4 year old lol but this vid is really helpful. I use a 8 foot right now and can cast a decent length but feel like I should be going more. Was thinking about trying a ten foot rod out. I do the drag technique and line the reel like you do. Put the motion part I feel would help me a lot. I don't put the pole parallel. So definitely going to try that. And I've been using 4 ounce pyramid so I'm going to see if the 3 ounce helps me out. Thanks for the advice

My man thx for the tutorial i know i am late here but now i can throw way better then before

Back in the 80’s I saw a casting demonstration from the world casting champion! He was from South Africa! He used a 12 foot custom rod with a big reel filled to max ! He used a 40 lb shock leader and a 3 Oz weight! He used a push away pendulum motion that allows him to twist the rod completely behind him and then he swings the rod all the way around his back in a side arm motion! His video showed them at Cape Hatteras and he threw the line down the beach ! They had to drive down to the weight! He was averaging 150 to 175 yards! Honest ! Oh and he had a rubber covering on his index finger that held the line ! Wish I could remember his name!

Great Video! I have yet to cast for the first time. I have acquired a conventional Penn Long Beach Reel and purchased a telescopic 6' suitcase rod since I travel and currently down in Puerto Vallarta. I feel sure a lot of your info will help me even with a conventional reel. Will let you know how it turns out next week when the rod arrives from Amazon. Muchas Gracias!

that was simple and honest and actually does work like that. I do surfcasting for 10 years and let me add one thing. It Is more about the precision that about the distance. Is more about the precision point where you will cast and where the fish is actually and actively looking for food then casting at the most distance we can. I confess that 90% of the fish I catch was caught between 15 m and 80 meters distance. Sorry about use the metric system as this is what we use in Portugal 😏

Nice job

Didn't know about tightening the drag. Thanks.. When speaking about line; I'll spool 125 yds. of braid on a new reel, then cut it and rejoin w/ double Uni knot, then add another 125 yds. When it needs replacing, I cut the line at the Uni knot and add 125 yds. of new line. It saves on time and money.. plus it keeps the spool full of new line.

Great video! Please elaborate how tightening the drag will help if the bail is open?

A cheap alternative to the casting-glove is a 3 inch piece of bicycle inner tube. Any local bike shop has a few blown tubes in the trash. One of them is a lifetime supply.

Great vid. I lived in spain for a while and they use very long rods with special reels which i cant remember the name off but the poibt is. They chucked their bat really far while i couldnt with my 8 foot rod, but at the end if the day i cought more fish. The key was hook type. They used J hooks and i circle hooks. Its very hard to the a hook with a 15 foot rod sitting in a sand spike. All i had to do when the bite came was to reel in while the rod was in the spike.😂 Its a interesting way they fish so if you have time do a YT search on pesca de playa españa.

Cheers from Australia

Nice reel, gotta love Penn. Have you tried their SF VI Long Cast reel, yet? I got one last year and I love it. Larger diameter, shallow spool. Line screams off it, and less drag on averag from the lip. Takes less to fill up compared to same size reels too.

Thanks for the great video. I like the push/pull technique you mentioned. I have a question though. How does drag on/off come into play when the bail is open anyway? Doesn't the bail being open basically equate to there being zero drag set? Thanks

Good video

The weight you throw is determined by the rating of the rod! They will say the casting weight on the rod, typicly on a beach caster say 4-8 oz! Remembering the weight of the rig and bait , stay inside the recommended weights and you will work the rod as much as possible.

Great video, thanks. Is that a glove with other 4 fingers removed or one specifically made for casting?

Great video....you'll be casting as far as your Dad one of these days!😁

brilliant for the beginner or the know all .. 😊 very well done mate good fishing to ya

Thank you. That was very educational. Where do you buy that glove. I have never seen one in Texas. Of course they are big on bait casters here but I like spinning reels.

I find the reel to butt distance more useful for picking a rod than the rod length itself. I can open a 12ft to a distance of 98m. 15.5ft gets me a further 4m. Same reel changed over. Both with no. 3 bombs and both rods matching cast weights. Smaller butt on 15.5ft. So why not use the smaller one? Bigger one just holds line proud of breaking waves. Great video. Not everyone mentions leverage. Another thing i do is use flouro instead of braid. I also wax the lip on the reel and the eyes on the rod. Car wax seems to work best. Rub on and off. Smooth as silk. Flouro just a head wrecker for knots so i also just use a single hook mono rig. Im a headcase for distance. No idea why. lol. 25lb flouro and 15lb mono rig.

We used to use 12ft rods 20 years ago in UK 🇬🇧. Newer technology means we can now use very light but powerful carbon composite rods of up to 15ft now to allow effortless casting of over 100 yards easy. Light low diameter mono with shock leaders of at least 10lb per ounce of sinker . Our tides are mental so usually 5-6oz grip leads and 70lb leader. Am sure the continental rods we use would be more than suitable for your fishing.

Day of great fishing

You get straight to the point I wish you was my math teacher when I was in high school maybe I would have done a lot better

Very good video I couldn't see when u released the finger

In the uk you have to use a shock leader of 70lb line to stop your lead breaking off during the cast as most times you need 5 or 6 oz leads when the sea is pulling hard If you get the chance you must do some beach fishing over here

I’m new to surf fishing. I used this yesterday and got long targeted throws. I was amazed since “clutz” is my middle name ;)

im gonna try this with my panfish rod

My bomber set-up is a 10ft conventional with 4oz Sputnik + bait. Once I get into the 11-13ft it's just too long for me.. like you said, it's all about what fits the person using it....

Looking at a 12’ to go from my 10’ heavy. What rod specs would you recommend for optimal casting at that length? Medium / medium heavy? Moderate Fast? Etc… generally throwing a 2-3oz rig cast and retrieve for Stipers in MD

I'm starting out surf fishing this year. I didn't know you had to work the drag adjustment every cast. I'm using lures only, no bait

In Europe we use the same technique for casting carp rods (12') . I did not understand why tightening the drag when the bail arm is up, there is nothing moving in the reel. In heavy feeder fishing which in terms of the rig is similar, we use so-called shock leader which goes twice the length of the rod, from the hook to the reel. This prevents line snapping in power casting. I don't know if this could be applied to the surf fishing. Anyways thank you for sharing your knowledge.

Do you utilize a shock leader? I was recently in the outer banks and casting 6oz with 30lb power pro and had repeated line breaks on the cast. I’m thinking i need to add a shock leader for the heavier weight

At what point do you release the line? How far down does the rod go?? Thanks for a great vidro.

I want to know that what type of rod and reel is better for beach surf

Can you recommend a decent starter 10 foot surf rod in the 150 dollar max range. (I got some reels just interested in the surf rod).

40 years ago I shot a -16 at Riverside in Tulsa my first round with an Aviar XD!

one thing i need to know is at wgat point in the swing do you release the line with your finger for maximum distance..11, 12 or 1 o clock?

What size reel should I use for surf fishing?

I still like watching this video.

what brand of casting glove are you using?

I see your main line is braid and your leaders look like mono? What lb test is your leader?

my rod got a cw =100-250 grams If i used a 60 g weight would that not activate the tip of the rod ( it won't bend enough for a distant cast ) ?

Perfectly said about the 12ft rods .... depending on your physical abilities ....a 12ft rod might not cast as far as a 10ft rod and there is a lot of other factors....line size, reel size, weight and Bait etc....

Creo que puedo darte unos tips en esto, si vas a usar Reels frontales busca Shimano(cuando veas la parte de adelante del carrete entenderas todo) tienes que buscar una caña (o modificarla) que cuando tengas el reel agarrado con una mano, el final de la vara te llegue al medio del pecho, esa es la medida de cada uno. usar chicote progresivo es lo ideal pero si estas apurado una combinacion de 0.55 con 0.30. y la tecnica queda mucho por mejorar, busca videos de LongCasting de uruguayos y argentinos. mi record fueron 172m medidos de pesca normal 150m aprox

I went surf fishing for the first time and was using bigger Penn setups. I couldn't get 50 feet out and all kept going far to the right at 45 degree angle or more. What did I do wrong?

Car wax the lip of your reel will reduce drag a little. Good video

At what point do you release your finger off of the line?

What rod & reel you using?

What’s the rod you’re using for the demo ?

I use a cannon break away casting trigger and don’t have to worry about cutting my finger.

In my country we used Surf Drone Cast. Normally we hit about 400 m to 500 m U should try someday. Its fun even for children.

This fella has some solid details. , & the "pointing" helps you realize the release point. but, if you're coming with a finger condom on a soak shift, you're going to get ripped by the fellas.

this is good but nobody is talking about the finger holding the line. It does not look like you are pressing the line to the rod. How are you keeping it from slipping out?

What kinda glove do you use ?

I've been surf fishing for over 14 years and now my personal longest cast about 170 meter😂

I set my drag with a scale at home before i go fishing so i know its at the correct drag pressure i never tighten my drag ever .

use a cast cannon works great no more glove and changing drag and the big pay off casting even further

What kind of fishing rod is that?

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You guys in the States are way behind European beach casting. There are anglers in the UK casting over 200 yards with bait and many can put our typical baits over 150 yards.

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