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- Good day everyone, Braden Schuch here
for Daiwa Australia.
Today I'm going to be taking you through a couple
of different baitcasting techniques.
Today we're going to be doing four, uh, the first
one being the, just the standard overhead cast,
the second being just a roll slide cast,
the third a pitch, and then the fourth being
a variation of the pitch which I do
quite a lot of.
So, uh, stay tuned and we'll get into it.
Alrighty here guys, so the first one we're going
to be looking into today would just be the,
the standard overhead cast.
This is a great cast, uh, just to get your bait
generally out into the area.
You can get really long cast with them and it's probably
the easiest to um, to start off with, with the
baitcaster when you're just starting out.
So we're going to be taking the rod up to about
one to two o'clock and then releasing at about
uh, at about ten to eleven o'clock.
So again, it's just be bringing it back
and then running it through like that with the motion there.
So we're just gonna go out and release,
just like that there.
We'll do that one again.
So out, and release.
So with this one you want roughly about two foot
of line coming out of the tip of your,
out of the tip of your rod, um, and then
you want to be keeping with always casts you wanna have, um, you just wanna have it all
in one motion so there's no jolting or anything
like that with this slack, uh, in your line
because then that'll jolt it around, you'll get
birds nests and nobody wants that.
So we want to be nice clean motion like that.
Alrighty here up next we've got the roll cast.
So the side cast, this one can be done either to the
right or to the left depending on how you reel
your baitcaster.
So this one's generally the same as the
overhead cast.
So we just gonna be coming around and releasing at
about 90 degrees off the body, uh, again this
is what I do more than often.
This is a great one for what I find
for hardbaits
because a lot of the hardbaits these days got
weights in the tails so you can really swing
it around, keep that weight back and then
it's going to run through, through the air so it
won't do any somersaults and stuff like that like get
caught up in the wind.
So we're gonna be, again, we're gonna have about two foot
of line coming off the rod tip, coming
around and releasing.
So again, around and release.
So this is a great, uh, this is a great technique
to learn because then, uh, if you wanna further
that one, you can get into skip casting, uh, and
some other stuff like that so that's a really good
one to have in the arsenal.
Third up, we've got the pitch.
So this one, uh, is really good close quarters cast.
So, if you only want to get it out there ten to fifteen
foot but you wanna pin point, uh, a snag or,
or a bit of rock, or some weedline
or something like that.
So that's a great one for this.
So we're gonna have roughly about, um, about as
much line back to the reel, that's a general start.
Um, you can vary that up when you get more
comfortable and finding what works best for you.
So you're going to be doing that and we just,
we just gonna be pulling it down like that.
We're gonna have the rod tip below,
then we're gonna release.
Again, just in one motion so there's not jolts
or slack in the line or anything like that.
I find bringing the, bringing the butt of the rod
up past my wrist like that so you can just drop
that tip a bit better, um, works well for me.
So we're just gonna be just going like that there.
So it's just gonna be a nice, a nice release.
This one's great for spinnerbaits, shallow baits,
jigs, weightless plastics, um, if you are
going to be doing it with treble baits,
just be very careful not to get a treble in your finger
uh, because that's definitely a possibility here.
Um, with triple baits I generally just hold the
front of the line and you can just release
the finger out and then you, you're out of the
way of many hooks, uh, which is the safest way
I've find.
Perfect, and last of all, um, this is what I call
a variation to, uh, the pitch cast.
So it's pretty much identical to a pitch
except for you're not using your left hand
or in this case, your right hand, uh, as
you'll see in a minute.
So you're not touching the bait in anyway.
Using the pendulum back and forth.
So you gonna just get it out there to start with,
and when you wind back in, and you just going
to let it pendulum back and then out.
So it's very simple, just pendulum out and this
is one motion, no jolting no nothing like that
it's just gonna, as it pendulums up out of
the water, you're just going to open the bail arm
or open the uh, open the release and then
you're gonna go through.
That one's really good for firing casts also,
if you wanna get, if you're working a weedline
or a bank or something like that, that you
really just wanna just in and out, in and out,
in and out, that's a really good cast for that.
Uh, saves a lot of time.
I use this technique quite a lot.
Just in and out.
And you can really, uh, if you practice it
enough and get good at it, you can really
pinpoint targets and it's very effective.
Right on guys I hope those four casting techniques
helped you right next time you're out on the
waters and nows a good change to, uh, to practice.
Uh, don't forget that we're always doing a casting
challenge, uh, trick-shot casting challenge which
finishes on the 18th of April where you can
uh, have a chance to win a Tatula rod and reel combo.
So, uh, jump over onto the Instagram and check it out.
So, good luck guys and I hope you can get around them.
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