New US Casting Record

Team North Carolina's Tommy Farmer set a new United States casting record of 839.25 feet at the SportCast USA Southeast Regional in Wilmington, N.C. this past monday. The previous record was 821 feet.

The record-breaking cast was done with the Abu Garcia 5500C3CT Mag Elite reel, and a lot of .28mm diameter mono, tipped with a 125g sinker.