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I need some pointers on how to flip/pitch without creating an emu sized birdnest. I'm sure I don't have the correct tackle for it but I do have a Curado 200 setting on a 7'6" team diawa mh rod that will have to do for now. This is a technique I really need to learn this spring.

Your setup sounds fine. Practice. Practice. Practice. Play with your brake settings and line choice until you find the right combo as far as pitching. For flipping, I never backlash because I'm never letting any line out. Just pick it up with my left hand and set it back down again.

I completely agree with William.

Stand on your backporch and practice pitching into a coffee can full of water... or put a plastic plate out there and try to hit it..

If you have a Curado 200 with internal adjustable brakes, flip the side lid and put three "on" and three in the off position to start with.

Then adjust the knob brake on the reel handle side until your lure falls steadily to the ground but won't make a backlash. If it drops too quickly and hits, you'll have a nest. If it's too slow, you're almost there. Keep barely moving the knob until it's in that "nice steady fall" rate and when it hits, it may make a half-loop on the spool.

Then, practice with targets you can build confidence with ... a washtub. The base of a tree. The gap between two shrubs or your kid's sandbox and the flower bed. Keep practicing. Pick out the birdnests and do it again.

Video tips:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBT0eZZi5k0

http://www.myoutdoortv.com/largemouth-bass/bass-tips-flipping-for-big-bass-video-included.html


If you hold the rod with your left hand, learn to pitch and flip with that hand so you don't have to switch. It may be unnatural at first but trust me, learning to do that will be a big help.

I learned to cast righty and then had to switch to lefty to turn the handle. Finally learned to cast lefty, and then pitch and flip holding the rod/reel with my left hand.

Practice, Grasshopper. Start with large targets and then winnow to small ones - coffee can, flower pot, etc. Build your confidence.

I bought a left handed Castaic just so I could flip w/o having to change hands. Denny Brauer told me too!

this is a great tip. If you are right handed, you will be more accurate pitching right handed. If you have a right handed reel, you will constantly be switching hands, not a big deal until you realize you may do this 482 times while fishing in a day. The more proficient you become try pitching left handed, practice as recommended earlier right and left handed to find which way you do it best. What I like to do is take a coffee can and fill it to the top with water, stand on about the second step of a staircase and see if you can set the bait in it without disturbing the water too much. When you can hit the can from 20 feet away 10 times in a row without knocking any water out, you are alot better than me.

I usually pitch more than flip and have learned to pitch with either hand without touching the bait with the other hand(does that make any sense?), it's a very fluid motion and you can actually cover alot of water and not miss any targets.

I learned by standing in the back of my truck with the tailgate down, flippin under my utility trailer 10 15 yards out. Worked fine for me. Good luck!

Did the same thing. Backed the truck up to the shrubs and dropped the tailgate. I'm right handed and pitched left handed almost from the get go...go figure. I think the first time I went fishing (pitching) I missed several fish while changing the reel from right to left hand. I just decided to pitch left handed after that.