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Here is my dilemma. I only have a couple friends that can put out an accurate cast. Recently I was fishing with a close buddy of mine. I was on the platform with the push pole, he was on the bow with a spinning rod, a school of slot redfish were tails up at about 10 o clock inside of 30 ft. We watch them. Picture painted. I say they are slowly moving left to right, put it a couple feet in front of them and wait for them to get there and twitch it. He makes his first cast, 20 feet past them and the line falls on their heads. The fish move, he makes his next cast, hits them square in the face. They bolt. The rest of the day proceeds like this. This is just one example and this could apply to the majority of my friends. Putting a fly rod in their hands is like asking a dog to preform surgery.
Now I could get off the platform to trade them spots, but then I'd have to suffer thru their poling. And I don't know if my anxiety could handle that. My wife can outcast most people, including myself, but we have a 5 month old so getting to fish together is rare.
So what do I do? What's the etiquette here? Practice my patience? Let them botch one cast and then make the cast myself from the platform? Get new friends?
Now I could get off the platform to trade them spots, but then I'd have to suffer thru their poling. And I don't know if my anxiety could handle that. My wife can outcast most people, including myself, but we have a 5 month old so getting to fish together is rare.
So what do I do? What's the etiquette here? Practice my patience? Let them botch one cast and then make the cast myself from the platform? Get new friends?