For example, retired Virginia pro and Bass Fishing Hall of Famer Woo Daves has advocated "throwing into the living room, then the dining room; hitting the kitchen, then the bedroom; checking out the bath; then lobbing into the den and hitting all the places bass live...not once but five or six times each."
Other pros have claimed they landed monster bass by "continuing to throw at one target more than 15 times before a fish would hit their baits," especially when using crankbaits and topwaters.
There's general agreement on the idea that certain situations warrant multiple casts to a given target. Among those occasions are the following:
* Fishing topwater lures over and around cover* Fishing lipless crankbaits in grassy beds
The simplest answer about when to make repeated casts is whenever you think bass are obstructed or in competitive environments, or are not moving at all.
For example, we've all seen those times, such as when you make cast after cast with a topwater, and then, all of a sudden, a fish suddenly shows up and blasts your lure. Most of the time, it could be that the fish has just grown curious about the commotion. Your job is to slowly coax him into reacting out of aggravation or because he wants to grab a continuously passing meal.
Once you get a fish to bite, it often becomes easy to catch more of them on myriad baits. Making repeated casts are necessary to trigger just that one bite, and if there's a school of them, the others are apt to react to that impulse.
Another school of thought is that if you see a good fish, or you're confident one is in an area you're working but doesn't respond to the initial presentation, or perhaps follows your bait all the way to the boat without striking, you're better off to leave and return after an extended period of time.
Does this one-cast concept mean that you should only make a single cast while at a particular spot? No. It just means that you're probably wasting your time if you keep making the same cast repeatedly. It also means that you're not maximizing your milk run.
How does the milk run benefit from the one-cast concept? Putting together a milk run and approaching each spot with the one-cast method creates a lot of advantages for an angler. For openers, you can't have too many spots for your milk run. Consider how many times you may pull up to a spot, only to find another boat already there.
Oftentimes, too, certain areas will have associated factors, such as wind direction or shadows that enhance the potential of the spot. The timing for these enhancements may take awhile to develop, making a visit more appropriate later in the day. So, the more prime spots you can effectively string together and target with one great cast increases your ability to fish like a sniper...a specialist...an efficient big-fish hunter.
The one-cast concept actually allows you to cover more water and also know that you've convincingly tested each stop on your milk run. When you've fully mastered this concept, you'll often find yourself in the big-bass zone.
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