How to Cast a Spinning Reel/Rod - For Beginners

[Music] hey good afternoon ladies and gentlemen captain taylor here with saltyscales.com so you're thinking about picking up a new hobby perhaps fishing and a question comes to mind is how you cast a spinning reel in a spinning rod well that's a valid question guys and i see even experienced anglers have trouble with some of these um simplistic things so let me go ahead and show you my simple approach to casting a spinning rod and reel let's do it all right and so first things first what you want to do like with any tool you want to learn the fundamentals of this reel and the first things i would tell you to learn is you know the terminology this is your bail uh the dial up above controls the drag um you know loosening it counterclockwise clockwise learning that and then obviously this is your crank this is what retrieves the the line and the gear ratio of that particular reel is what determines how fast the line uh is retrieved so to cast this what you want to do is you want to manually turn the bell and you want it to go up just like so and you want to hold the rod and the reel where it's most comfortable for you and the way i do that is i like to place my index and middle finger in front of the reel here real shaft and then my other two fingers behind it that's the most comfortable for me some people hold it up here some people hold it with just the pinky back there some with two two in front two in the back so that part is just preference guys and that's you know there's no right or wrong way in my opinion now in order to get this ready for casting you want to take your index finger or your trigger finger and you want to barely lay the line on your finger just like so now one thing that i see a lot of times being done wrong even by some more experienced anglers is they like to grab this whole line just like so well what that does is it impacts accuracy and distance and a lot of times that line will snag on your finger and your bait won't go where you you know ideally had it going so make sure you're paying attention to that so lay the line on your index finger and engage your bill with your left hand and if you're right-handed you do the op or if you're left-handed you do the opposite you'd be holding this with your left hand engaging with your right all right so one of the things that you want to do before you make your cast is to make sure you have about six to eight inches from the rod tip down to the lure and that's going to give you the most accuracy you don't want it to be hanging too long and you want it you don't want it to be too short you want to be able to use that momentum and weight of the lure to get a good bend in the rod so that way you can get a nice efficient cast all right so here we go i have my lure here i'm letting out a little line and i'm grabbing the line with my index finger i manually open the bell with my left hand and now i'm going to locate my target as to where i want to cast now there's a few different ways you can do this you can roll cast it you can overhand cast it or you could do a side cast those are the three primary ways that you're going to cast and for this example i'll just do a side cast so i want to cast out in front of me here so what i'm going to do is i'm going to load the rod back and i like to grab i like to make a cast with two hands some people like to just use one hand i think you get a lot more control utilizing two hands so i'll hold it just like i showed you here with my right hand and then i'll hold the butt of the rod with my left hand and i use it as a pivot so you're utilizing the rod and you're using this almost as a power hand just to bring back more strength and also for control so that's that primary purpose so right out in front of me i'm going to locate my target i am going to load the rod back and i'm going to cast straight towards my target all right so i just made my cast guys and i'm satisfied i'm close to my target what you want to do is take your left hand and manually close the bell and what that does is it engages the reel and allows it to be ready for retrieval and it also prevents loops and it prevents damage to the bail so these are all very important things so make sure you're manually closing this and now i can retrieve the line or the lure i just want to also mention that if the line is going straight up in the air that means you release too early on the index finger now if the lure is crashing down at your feet that means you release too late so you got to get a good feel for it a little bit of practice and you'll get the hang of it let me show you three different styles of casts that are very popular first off you got your overhand index finger on the line just a few six to eight inches of the lure hanging from the rod tip i want to point straight you know at the target and i want to go over you see how i'm holding it with both hands i'm going to go straight over and beautiful so that's the overhand cast the next popular one that i use quite frequently is what they would call the roll cast and that's where you're somewhat close to the water and you're you're using just the rod to roll like it's almost like a circular motion and you're pointing the rod at the direction that you want to go and a lot of times this roll cast is used to skip baits it's very popular for dachshunds such as such as that or under mangroves and you want to skip a lure this is when you would use that so it's the same thing i'm going low i'm holding the rod with my left hand and my right here i have the line loaded on my finger and i'm just rolling and you can see how the lure skipped across the water there because it had a low trajectory and just like a stone skips the water if you have a flat lure it'll do the same all right so the very next cast is what we call just a simple side cast and you're not getting low and you're not rolling the rod like on a roll cast you're pretty much opening the bell or placing the line on your finger opening the bell locating your target and instead of casting overhand you're loading the rod to your side and pointing it straight at your target and then releasing your finger just like so hopefully i was you were able to get a visual demonstration on how that worked guys if you enjoyed today's tip on how to cast a spinning rod please give a thumbs up and comment below do you want to see more like this does this help you guys i hope so until next time we'll see you on the water

Channel: Joshua Taylor

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Length: 7min 9sec (429 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 13 2017