Technique has a massive amount to do with it. Technique will get great distance and more importantly accuracy.
If you are such a poor golfer that you don't have a handicap but you are a powerhouse and I give you Tiger Wood's golf clubs you will not hit a ball nearly as far as he can because he has the technique with the right amount of power and you only have power.
I have however had many anglers coming to me asking to buy new rods to help them cast further and on investigation find they have the right tackle already so I then invite them to a sport field and we take them to a field and we cast.
Often I see the technique is correct but they're casting at 40-60% of what the rod can handle so many leave without me building a new rod but with instruction to add power or to take a Gym membership to get more power to cast.
This thread is about a range casting rod........so this is about a rod that can handle the weights and the power and that will cast a bait to where it needs to be and that is a very different rod to a fishing rod!!!!!!!!
This past league my partner just got no distance and with his P4 was stil 30m short of my M1.5 so I took out the Skycaster 15' with a 110gr weight and 0.16mm line and made him use that rod, he made 3 casts with it in the last hour and he caught 2 fish with the 1 rod and nothing on his other rods all day.
As I said earlier in the thread, these are Expensive rods for casting and not for fishing. They are expensive and seldom used but when used they MAKE the DIFFERENCE.
Not a rod for the social / recreational angler. If you are a competitve angler aiming at higher honours you need 2 x ultimate casting weapons, irrespective of what brand and model or weight or price.
You NEED rods that on an SA, League, Trials inter-provincial, where the fish are beyond any normal range you can with absolute confidence take the rod on light line, put on a 110gr weight with small bol and a 0.40mm leader take a run up and chuck the lead over the horizon.
Nothing worse /better than what I experienced in my first Central Gauteng Trials in Koppies dam. 30 anglers in my block, myself and Spikes Joubert with 16' Graphites casting plain 110gr leads to distances that you could only see a ripple when they hit the water. We both got 20+ fish (I pipped him on weight) and in the group of 24 (at trials) in our block only 1 other angler had more than 1 fish and the majority blanked.
It was one of 2 times I used those rods that year and so I can go on and on and on.
We must not make the mistake of comparing the general purpose fishing rod with a casting tool here. There are however very few rods that can get the distance that the G2 -13' can and remain a good fishing rod except maybe the Tribal LC 13' 3.5lbs
Not a common rod on shop shelves and the commecial builds are around R200 cheaper than a custom but if you don't get it 100% right with the cast you're going to get a lot of leader cast off's especially when power casting.
As for the advertised tests. I've been to some of these tests and participated in them and make no mistake the guys th\doing the casting are guys like an Ernie Els of golf, they can make those rods do those distances, without doubt and with the weights stated but as I said unless you have all the skills, technique and power these guys have you won't get there just as you will not hit a golf ball consistantly as far as Ernie should you get the opportunity to use his clubs (that's if you were not driving similar distances with sub standard gear before hand)
