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Part 1 - Longer Distance Casting A Spinning Rod
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by: Randy Kadish

You read up on it. You become sure you can do it. After all, hitting a good tee shot seems a lot harder than casting a spinning rod. So you head to the water with visions of hooking and landing a faraway lunker.  But then to be humbled!

Your lure keeps flying off to the left and not very far. How frustrating! So you think all you need is practice, lots and lots of practice. But for three long, practice-filled months you're still in the same, going-nowhere casting boat, so to speak.

How discouraging! Makes you think about giving up fishing. Boy do I know!

But instead of giving up I wondered: what if there's a lot more to casting a spinning rod than what I read.? What if I experiment with using other techniques, the techniques of throwing a ball and of casting a fly rod?

So I began a year of casting trials and errors. Lots of errors! Then finally it happened: consistently, I felt the beauty of loading the rod, of watching the lure shoot far out and dive gracefully and accurately into the water.

Here's how I got there.

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