>>2790657it's one of those things that seems hard initially, but really isn't. once you finally get it, you're like "oh, I've been doing it wrong." it honestly won't take long, like a solid handful of trips at most. set your spool tension a tiny bit tighter than you're supposed to at first, basically right at the point where the side to side play is completly gone. start with the brakes like 75% on and back them down as you can until they're like halfway. and don't try to cast anything under like 1/2oz, especially with the spool tension not having and side to side play. DO NOT try overhead casts until you've got plenty of experience. gentle side/roll casts where you load up the bait are by far the easiest. once you can side cast well and have proper loose spool tension, then you can try overhead. overhead casting with tight spool tension makes the bait crash straight to the ground a few feet out and you get a turbofucked birdsnest. lol. also helps to have good cheap line in case you really get a bad birds nest that you don't feel like picking out for an hour. yo-zuri hybrid 10-12lb 600yd spools are great. the release points of your cast and your thumb dexterity needs time to adapt no matter how good you think your thumb is working... it's not.
