re: Are you in any condition to drive?

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You know what's funny about fishing... When you're on land you try to throw it as far as you can but when you're in a boat you try to throw it as close to shore as possible

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Not if you know how to fish.

If I'm on land I throw diagonal to my left out in front of the trees but not toward the middle and reel it across the trees toward the shore. Basically I'll stand where I can cast the lure to cross in front of but near 3-4 trees and at the last 2 trees pass between them and pull the lure behind the last tree.

If it's a bare shoreline I'll just cast lengthways down the shore because your underwater rocks, drop-offs, shrubs will be near shore. You won't catch anything casting to the middle unless you're using a deep-water crank bait (which is hard casting from shore) or a carolina-rigged worm.