A "country mile" is equivelent to "all the way over thar" or " a fur piece" or " way over yonder"

We all know "yonder" is what direction the head nods.

A country mile if driving in North Carolina is exactly 1.56792 and 1/10th of a mile

The answer to how far is a country mile is much like the amount of time your wife means when she says she will be ready in a minute. There are too many variables to hazard a guess. Southernfried just focus on casting accurately and consistently. As you get comfortable with a baitcaster in your hand distance will take care of itself. Being able to put your bait into spots others can't will catch you a lot of fish. Good luck.

 

FWIW some of my most epic backlashes have come when I really muscled up to get a few extra yards...

The answer to how far is a country mile is much like the amount of time your wife means when she says she will be ready in a minute. There are too many variables to hazard a guess. 

TRUTH. 

 Hhhm i heard when i was growing up on the farm....dad would yawn and lean back and say 'id stretch a country mile,but its to far to walk back'....now we are from Arkansas sooooo.

Watch this right here, im gonna take this 4 ounce "sinker" and see what it can do. Look at that, I burned up the stock bearings in this here space reel. It can only do what I said it will do, nothing else out there can do this with a 6 ounce sinker let alone a 4!

Our mind resembles the sectors of a computer drive and the pixels in a camera sensor.

Cities are complex checkerboards where a lot of processing is going on.

Four city blocks that appear about a mile-long, may only be half that distance.

In contrast, a mile-long open pasture in the country may only look about 1/2 mile wide.  

 

This phenomenon is even more obvious in the ocean. When I was heavy into saltwater fishing,

the distance to the Ambrose Lightship fooled me every time. When it felt like we were about a mile away,

it was still 1.5 to 2.5 miles away. In any event, an "Ocean mile" is considerably longer than a "Country mile"

 

Roger

A "country mile" is found to be greater than or equal to the ego of the fisherman casting said "country mile"

A long, long way.

In the theory of geometric progression, hypothesized by Malthus, having to do with the angle of the dangle of rod to lure, thus creating the question : just how far is a country mile?. Because the theory has never been proven, there is in reality, no way to prove that it is a known distance. So, by default, it's what ever you want it to be.

Thank you for all the replies, 45 yds is good.

I would have to say that a country mile would be..... for me a cast that comes in at about 55 yards