Larry L wrote:
One problem I have fishing from a personal watercraft is that some of the
energy intended to go into the cast is transferred instead to the craft (
make a casting motion right now and feel how your butt swivels and tries to
rotate your chair to understand what I'm saying ) making my "longest" casts
shorter than on dry land ( wading )


Am I just doing everything 100% wrong ? Is there some tricky way to
minimize this?



My advice, Larry, for what it's worth, is to use your fins to stabilize
your orientation, if necessary.

Kick boats and belly boats can be infuriating in that way. Whenever you
change direction with your cast they will tend to rotate. It's
elementary physics. If you cast to the right the boat will rotate to the
left, and vice versa, no matter how perfectly you execute the cast.

Newton said it first: For every action there's an opposite and equal
reaction.

Counteract the rotation with your fins. The greater the change of
direction of the cast, the more effort is required with the fins. Small
changes in direction won't require much effort, if any at all.

Imagine as a worst case casting directly behind you.

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