Before I ask, I know that the best way to improve my casting is to take some lessons, but until I can do that can anyone recommend a good DVD? I can get as much line as I need around here up in the air, and I can put that line out in a straight line roughly where I want it most of the time. I can't, however, make a forty foot cast with twenty feet of line (shooting the other twenty feet). If I want to cast forty feet I have to have 35-40 feet in the air false casting. And even then it sometimes falls in a "pile" on the water in the general direction I want it to go, but fifteen feet short of the target. So, basically, I'm about ten trips beyond rank beginner, at best. (not literally, but I've never improved and whatever little casting I can do I've learned through trial-and-error) I spend as much time practicing my casts on the water as I do fishing, which is not a very efficient way to fish (esp. when the only trout water in the state is 70 miles away one way).

thanks,
c