How Do You Cast An Open-Faced Spinning Reel?
Open-faced casting can be mastered after you are able to cast a closed reel easily every time. It is more challenging but you will have a longer cast with an open-faced reel than a closed-faced model. An open-faced reel lets you go further into a pond or lake to catch hard-to-reach fish or difficult fish that won’t bite close to shore. Step 1 Hold the rod in your casting hand with your forefinger in front of the reel and your other fingers behind it. This gives you a better casting grip and leaves your forefinger free for the line as you cast so you can “trap” the line, by not letting it move easily, as you are casting to keep it from reeling out too far. Step 2 Trap the line so no more of the line can be released after your cast by hanging about 15 to 45 cm of line from the tip of the rod. Your forefinger is set down toward the line and used to pull and hold the line back against the rod grip. Step 3 Open the bail arm with your other hand and now the reel is set to cast. The bail arm
