Brighton Cast

All of the casting techniques I found focus on getting the rod loaded with energy instead of using your arm strength to heave your rig. Accomplishing this requires extending your arms throughout the cast. Most of us keep our arms in tight while casting which takes most of the power out of the cast. The other key element is using the arm and hand holding the rod near the reel as a fulcrum and snapping down with the arm and hand holding the bottom of the rod at the end of the cast.

Another important part of these casting techniques is where to end your casting stroke and release the line. The best advice I could find, and what works for me, is to set your sights to a forty-five degree angle to the horizon and release when your rod reaches that point.

The Brighton cast starts with the terminal rig on the beach. You will notice that all of the action of the cast is the same as the Pendulum and Hatter casts with the later two using some line swing to further load the rod. With casting a picture and video are worth a thousand words so here you go: