Decided to attempt to learn how to skip baits with a bait caster after watching some videos . Bought a Daiwa Tatula SV and Lews Andy Montgomery skipping rod and hit the lake . No major backlashes thanks to the reel but not much in the way of skipping either . Decided I'd better start practicing a bunch on my driveway at home to shorten the learning curve some . I built a platform 16" off the ground and 4' X 4' wide to practice casting from to simulate standing on the front deck of my boat after measuring the distance from the actual lake surface . My Driveway is a rough broomed finish that was not very conducive to sliding a jig across . Put a piece of black visqueen down on the driveway I had left over from landscaping to smooth things out and it was just the ticket . Yesterday out on the lake again and at the end of the day I stopped at a vacant 10 slip dock close to the ramp and tried some more actual skip casts . Accuracy was hit and miss but I was actually getting the jig to skip maybe 6-8 feet pretty consistently . One cast I must have got right and the jig skipped way back under the dock covering maybe 15' after the first skip . I was practicing again today on the driveway and my good casts would go 30' sliding across the driveway from my platform and I hit the 40' mark a couple of times . I haven't been this excited about practice casting in the backyard since I was learning to Flip many moons ago .
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