Whether or not you’re going to ever throw a 100-foot cast isn’t important. The steps you take to get more distance on your ...

In my short swimbait career ... I spent the spring throwing a wide range of soft and hard baits on nine swimbait rods to find their ideal lure weight rating and evaluate their casting performance.

We tortured-tested 16 of today’s most innovative—and affordable—trout rods to find the best fly ... enormous lawn at the lodge to set up our “range” for casting drills.

Rogers’ longest casts were in the 80 to 90 feet range, and Einsmann and Huges’ max distances were consistently around 70 feet. This shows that a better rod will not add a considerable amount of ...