cast just fine and besides the fish are not that far out that these lures catch. Not all the big fish are in the middle. Make it one of the shore fleeing school. The blue mac and the pogie colored one were good lures for me this year in canal.
"A beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real"
It's awfully nice to have a small minnow plug that I can cast a ways with my heavy conventional gear. Yep, I caught a bunch of small bass in the canal with the stock hardware, but nothing big.