Really basic, maybe even stupid question

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Everything that I read seems to hammer the idea that when using sinkers or jigs with soft plastics--really, doing any kind of fishing at all, just about, you should use the lightest weights possible. For instance, when fishing with a plastic worm, you try to use the lightest weight possible to maintain contact with the bottom. My problem is that I just cant figure out how to cast such lightweight rigs very far at all. Am I just missing something? Also, on fishing shows--particularly bass programs, the anglers are almost always using bait casting set-ups, even when casting soft plastics. Is there some trick to being able to cast small soft plastics with a bait casting reel? I realize this is a pretty broad, and probably very complicated topic, but maybe there are others who are as perplexed as me--on the other hand, maybe I'm just really bad at casting.
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