An interview with the former world-champion.
One of the best surf casters is Neil Mackellow, who comes to St. Augustine from England a couple times a year.
Mackellow is the European consultant for Penn reels. He does a little business while he’s here, but mostly he comes to the First Coast to surf fish.
He knows his way around a beach, a rod and a reel. And it doesn’t hurt one bit that he can toss a surf weight nearly the length of three football fields.
Mackellow won the world casting championship three times. He was the United Kingdom Surfcasting Federation champion seven times and has placed in the top three in UKSF national competitions 64 times, including 36 victories. His cast of nearly 290 yards remains the longest cast recorded for 14 years - from 1983 to 1997.
As an aside, he also once won a bet by casting on a regulation baseball on a rod and reel from home plate over the center-field fence at Camden Yards in Baltimore - 410 feet - at an Orioles game.
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