KVD casting machine

[ssaamm]

I was watching KVD on the show "The Bass Pros" on Versus. He put on a casting clinic. I consider myself competent at skipping docks with plastics and the like. I do get hung up sometimes. He was casting around docks with pontoon boats about 20ft. long. He would cast crankbaits with big old trebles right between the boats. This gap between the boats could have only been a couple of feet wide. He would cast the full length of the boat and then some. I would have caught a couple of boats seats, a life jacket, a cooler, etc, etc, and no fish. Granted they don't show him getting snagged, but I bet it's pretty rare. I am impressed that he is so successful, and doesn't seem to use an abundance of finesse presentations. Let's get this ice out of here. Sam

[Eskimoman]

That is one of the little things people often miss in their presentation. Cast accurate and you will put a few more fish in the boat

[Craigums]

Ive read before that one of the biggest differances between a pro angler and an amatuer is casting accuracy. Makes perfect sense to me.

[bucketmouth64]

I'm happy when I don't hit anything and hope for a bite. When I do get that one good cast in a spot there is nothing to show. It is pretty amazing on the casts the pro's make. They do it so effortlessly like it is second nature to them, which I'm sure it is.

[Daze Off]

I saw KVD at a seminar he was giving and he was doing the underhand roll cast and the bait never went more than a foot off the floor and set down so quietly you could hardly hear it and he was doing it effortlessly.

I saw the show you were talking about too - pretty impressive but also consider this - it is easy to be fearless when Strike King sends you as many baits as you want without charge.....

I feel much more comfortable trying something like that with my old 5'6" pistol grip baitcaster stick than the 6"10" stick he was using.

That's why he is KVD I guess....

[ikeslayer]

He is asked in an interview ( i think it is on youtube) if he could give one tip to the amatures out there. he said, - without a doubt to be come a more proficient caster - accuracy and soft presentation into the water and you will catch more fish.

[RK]

Hiya -

Some of those guys are amazing aren't they? Years ago when i was working at a Camp Fish Jamboree I watched a seminar by Jimmy Houston. He was talking about pitching, and he demonstrated the technique by pitching a jig into a coffee cup 30 feet away a few times. Then, for the rest of the seminar as he walked around the stage and talked, he'd kind of absent-mindedly pitch the jig as he spoke. He never missed, from all angles and distances. It was unreal.

When I give muskie seminars one thing I often include is how important it is to master basic fishing skills like casting accurately. I think Craigums is right on. I get to fish with a lot of very good anglers and this is one thing they all seem to have in common regardless of what species they pursue - they have the mechanics down cold, so they don't even have to think about it. Figure-8s while muskie fishing is a good example. So is pitching for bass. Another REALLY good example of this, which doesn't get mentioned nearly often enough, is boat control.

The good news is you can get better with practice. Fishing seems to be the only sport where if you say you're practicing, people look at you funny. Nobody things twice about going to the driving range to practice your golf swing, but if you stand on a chair in the back yard and practice pitching a jig, the neighbors call the loony bin

Cheers,

Rob Kimm

[Aaron Carrell]

Hah! My neighbors saw me practicing pitching into a coffee can last year and just looked away! I had never tried pitching before last summer and I didn't want to completely screw it up once I was in the boat. It honestly is a good way to practice. I didn't think of standing on a chair... man that would make it alot easier! lol

[Daze Off]

My neighbors usually ask if "they're bitin"....clever bunch them.

Never used the chair - set up a bunch of targets at different distances/directions. Thinking this year of figuring out some way to simulate pitch skipping - thought of putting a board across the top of a couple 5 gal. buckets on teh driveway to start with.

[delmuts]

"My neighbors usually ask if "they're bitin" I usually get that too!

I got one better! I was hooking the end of my briaded line to a snap swivel attached to a tree branch, so i could let it out and re-reel it back in. A gal walking by looks at me and say,"OH! Are you caught in the tree?" I soooo wanted to say. Nope! Was just going to build a spider web with this braided line to see if i could catch any bugs for bait! HERE'S YOUR SIGN !

[TonkaBass]

I agree, and think that casting accuracy is very important. The right lure, at the right time, in the right place will catch a fish. If you can't put it in the right place, it makes it pretty tough.

[Muddog]

With a video camera and a little editing (OK maybe more then a little ). I could never make a bad cast too.