How Far can you Cast?

[Reality Czech]

Your trout rig

An old fishing bud once told me when I asked how he fishes his spoons,

"Throw as far as you can, and reel in as fast as you can"

He proved it many times with full stringers of trout.

I fish with spoons almost exclusively in the surf, but I will throw topwaters before day break or rig a finger mullet rod

so I can sit in my comfy chair and watch it later in the day.

I never measured the distance I can cast a 3/4oz, but with a north wind behind me it can be difficult to see it land.

My rig of choice has been the same for years, a Gloomis 6, 1/2ft with a Curado 200 on it

20lb braid

Once those bearings get warmed up I have no fear of firing it out, HARD

Now if only the surf temp would just rise a bit more,

Trout fever is a horrible disease

[SGrem]

I learned with an Ambassador 5000.....and zing that thing. .. so these new reels it's like cheating.

If I could throw a football or a baseball like I can cast i would be a bazillionaire... i can a doorbell with a spinner bait....

Try jigging a spoon. Work it just like a jig tail.... switch it up. And try a black spoon.....youre welcome.

[Rainbowrunner]

LOL…I remember way back when braid first started getting popular. I still had a few TA H5 and H7’s and most of them I lost when I would rocket them out and I would have buried braid in my reel.
Them spoons are still headed to the Caymans.

[Reality Czech]

I learned with an Ambassador 5000.....and zing that thing. .. so these new reels it's like cheating.

If I could throw a football or a baseball like I can cast i would be a bazillionaire... i can a doorbell with a spinner bait....

Try jigging a spoon. Work it just like a jig tail.... switch it up. And try a black spoon.....youre welcome.

An Ambassador 5000 on a LCI Striker was my first real trout set up rig

Bought it at a fishing show in the Astrodome many many moons ago
Was the top of the line rig at that time. Still got it, and use it

I have many spoons, some bought, others I have made
All have small Spro swivels mounted on the front

I switch up on my spoon fishing technique sometimes, but the strike on a fast spoon is what I live for.
Nothing is as good as a hard hit and drag peeling fast.

I'm sick, need salt water BAD!

[Matt]

Trout and tarpon and snook but facing the opposite side of the surf up a creek without a paddle lol.

[Dawg]

Could not tell how far I cast but not as far as I used to, 2 things I can tell you either I cast where there is no fish or I catch an oyster shell.

[Kevin Nicholls]

I can cast as far as it takes to get hung up on something, I know that much.

[SGrem]

Fishing for squirrels and monkeys.....

[Matt]

Lob out hxw raptors on jawbone 10' with 1lb weight and whole gaftop but have to walk out to the 1st bar

[RTRIDER]

Im not really sure...I cast out today at noon and it's still going.

[Trouthunter]

My Dad and other old salts got with Grant Illsing and removed the brass bushings from their old Ambassadeur reels and replaced them with bearings. Game was on then.

[Flounderface]

Yeah, not sure. Seaguars braid can chuck it farther than anything else that I have used. Super thin, ultra supple. Strong. Just take a second to secure the braid/ reel connection after the mammoth distance cast. . Best that I have ever used. By far. And for surf casting I use mono. Distance is not a priority. More like where are the fish, sometimes 15 feet out.

[Flounderface]

Or more to the point, Farther than you!? lmao

[2Ws]

Started using the 5000B when the trees in the Black Forrest on Rayburn still had leaves on them, I had both my boys using the Ambassador 5000B & C at the age of 10 (late 80s) ......last year my son felt sorry for me and bought me a Lews after out casting me with me using a 200E7, that morning he covered almost twice the water with his Lews. I now have 2 Lews I use.

[PassingThru]

Sometimes far enough. Other times, not as far.