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Overhead cast

The bread-and-butter cast. Get this right and everything else follows.

Overhead cast — short demo

Three steps

  1. 1

    Start with the rod tip low and about 8 metres of line straight out in front of you.

  2. 2

    Lift smoothly and stop the rod crisply at around 1 o'clock — then pause while the line straightens behind.

  3. 3

    Come forward and stop just as crisply at 10 o'clock, letting the loop roll out before lowering the tip.

Common mistake

Waving the rod like a wand with no stop, so the line collapses in a pile.

Tip

It's the stop that makes the loop, not the power. Think 'flick, freeze'.