You could go with a stripping basket, or learn how to coil line on your hand and wrist... the drag of 9 wt line on the water is gonna kill a third of your line speed while shooting... also the 9 is a heavy rod, probably needs quite a bit of line out to load it enough to shoot, you could try using a 9' 7-8 wt which will load better with less line out and should roll cast better. the casts I would recomend youtubing are, aerial roll cast, right angle cast (not a good distance cast) and the side roll cast, and the near vertical cast.
as for distance... does your rod have enough spine to set a hook at over 80 feet? you also can just find water that allows you to fish.. unless your a god, fly fishermen just don't get to fish the whole river... Good luck-Brad