If you have a boat, try fishing a trout lake with chronomids (spelling?) under a strike indicator. That way you do not have to worry about catching trees, grass, fences, etc and the strike indicator makes it easy to cast.
Make sure that you don't bring your rod further back than straight up and down on your back cast and I always found that it takes longer than you think it should for the line to load your rod.
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