Recently got an e-mail asking:
“What do you feel is the end-all, be-all in casting? Super distance or super accuracy or some other skill that defines ‘best’? What’s your opinion?”
My answer is “Being able to make the needed cast—and if necessary, the needed mend—in any situation.” In other words, the end-all, be-all is being as well-rounded as possible. But that’s a continually moving target, so when you down to it, the “end-all” never really is…
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I am usually pretty happy with any cast that catches fish. However, I think the perfect cast is what is needed at the moment; sometimes they need to be super accurate and sometimes they need to be super long. As long as I don’t tail my loop, then so much the better.
Matt—Yes, one can say that the “end-all” cast is the one that matches the presentation situation at hand. If that happens to be a 120-foot boomer in casting competition, or a drag-killing 25-footer on a spring creek, or a 70-foot quick-shot on the flats in a stiff breeze, then that’s what it needs to be. The trick, of course, is being able to make hit as many of those “end-alls” as possible!