What does fishing distance mean?

[D A И I]

In the game you can throw your rod much farther in the sea than the default distance, what kind of difference does it make for fishing as it costs energy

Also if you throw it far and it costs like 4 energy as example and you go AFK auto fishing will it do 4 energy each time?

[AlnilamE]

If you use energy, you have a chance of catching more than one fish per cast.

If you go afk, the energy (and the effect) only apply to the first cast, not any subsequent ones.

Using energy is really only worth it at seagull spots, particularly if you are at a Coelacanth spot as they despawn on cast.