I see you have moved to Grantham from sunny Spalding, what made you leave that once beautiful, sleepy market town mate

Practice! I used to cast into a bucket on some playing fields during the old closed season.

The other things that aid accuracy is ‘muscle memory’ that will only come through practice and trying not to think about what you are doing especially when casting close to snags/features.

A good book I read many moons ago was called, “Zen and the Art of Tennis” which gave me several techniques that I subsequently applied to angling.

I remember my uncle taking me in a horses field at the back of his house, and casting a bomb to something on the ground (it might have been a bucket or a tyre i cant remember) over and over again without a clip.

From doing this, at the age of about 12 i could nail the exact same spot time and time again.

After not fishing for quite a number of years though its taking me a while to get that accuracy back.

One out of the frame, i would say that its more of an autonymous motor program.

When you first start you have to think about things. But the more practice you put in the more autonymous it becomes.

I bet as soon as you cast you know if its going to be good or not, just as it leaves the rod. But when you first started you will have had no idea.

You will also know straight away what you did wrong, where as again when you first started you will have just guessed and tried to correct it, without really knowing what your correcting.

I do a lot about this kind of thing in my sports science degree and not until you wrote about muscle memory did i ever relate it to fishing.

If your into reading around things like this to improve your fishing, a great one around this is called motor learning and performance by Schmidt & Wrisberg.

@JonniTimms wrote:

I remember my uncle taking me in a horses field at the back of his house,

That’s all wrong!

your wrong andy