Reach casts are very common, in fact necessary when fishing, especially out of a drift boat.

However, rowing and controlling a drift boat is not an easy thing to do. How many of you have operated your power boats and while slowly approaching a dock to tie up several of the other people in the boat move over to the dock side of the boat. This causes the boat to veer off and you have no real control of the boat then. The same thing happens in a drift boat which is why you want to stay in the center line of the boat and not lean way out. I suspect the caster in question may have been moving his body around way too much to try for a wider loop, thus causing the drift boat to veer of course. Just a thought.

Larry ---sagefisher---