LynnMCF, have you tried two handed casting? Use your right arm mostly as a fulcrum, pulling back with the left arm on the rod butt to make the cast. The guys I took a two handed casting class from said a number of their students took up two handed casting because of shoulder problems. He loved the Daiwa Kiyose 43M as a light two handed rod. I told him it was a one handed rod. He smiled and said "try it." He was right.