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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Craig" data-source="post: 121580" data-attributes="member: 489">A few things I've discovered from my uptiding efforts..... The casting should always be done outside of the boat if possible and as others have said, if that's not possible, practice first before going. It's just a good underarm cast that's required and with a half decent rod, it's surprising what distance you can achieve. Clipping the bait on a grip wire for casting helps reduce tangles and reduces the risk of your bait flapping about during the cast, also means that your bait should stay on the hook better.I've always found that the further forward you are on the boat, the easier it is uptiding, mainly because the lead seems to anchor better, though you have to be alot more on the ball when you catch a decent fish as there's usually a good few rods behind you which you could get tangles with. Depending on tidal flow and depth, you may get away with a rod you already have.... I fish out of West mersea in Essex, which is fairly shallow with not a massive tide, I get away with 6oz most of the time (need to try 4oz grips really) and 8 Oz when the rides really running. My go to rods are a sonik sk3 uptide and a Penn 20-50g spinning rod, both work well but the spinning rod does struggle with the rays abit, surprisingly enough. I also have a sonik sk3 boat rod which works perfectly fine for uptiding too. The main thing is that the rod needs a supple tip, anything too stiff with trip the lead out. One thing to note regarding rods, we usually have 8 on the boat fishing two rods each, my uptide rod is the only uptide rod on the boat, we very rarely have a lead trip out from anyone's rod, so your boat rod will probably do the job just fine for the time being. I've always used a running ledger, never found much need for anything else when uptiding, but others do use other rigs, can't say the catch rate is different between various rigs.</blockquote>

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