Raycast only works right next(practically on top of) object

Hello I am sure I am missing something here. I am trying to send out a raycast from my players feet to detect a laying skeleton to animate and move to the next click. For some reason the raycast only works practically on top of the skeleton. Also when the the Skeleton is "Awake" there is no movement. Putting the code for the scripts below. Sorry if the code is messy and am just learning and am sure I am making all kinds of formatting mistakes.

raycast script

 using UnityEngine;
 using System.Collections;
 
 public class SpellRayCast : MonoBehaviour {
 SkeletonController sControl;
 public bool skelAwaken = false;
 public Vector3 destination;
     // Use this for initialization
     void Start () {
     }
 
     void FixedUpdate () {
     RaycastHit hit;
     Ray ray = new Ray (transform.position, transform.forward);
     Vector3 forward =  transform.TransformDirection(Vector3.forward) * 10;
     Debug.DrawRay(transform.position, forward, Color.green);
 
         if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit, 10) && Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0)){
             if (hit.collider.tag == "Skeleton") {
                 Debug.Log("Hit!");
                 skelAwaken = true;
                 if (skelAwaken == true) {
                     destination = hit.point;
                 }
             }
             else{
                 skelAwaken = false;
             }
             }
         }
     public bool giveAwake(bool Res){
     Res = skelAwaken;
     return Res;
     }
     }
 
 

taarget script

 using UnityEngine;
 using System.Collections;
 
 public class SkeletonController : MonoBehaviour {
 Animation anim;
 Animator anima;
 bool awaken;
 bool woken;
 Rigidbody rBody;
 SpellRayCast awake;
 GameObject spell;
 Vector3 dist;
 public float speed;
     // Use this for initialization
     void Start () {
     anim = GetComponent<Animation>();
     anima = GetComponent<Animator>();
     rBody = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
     spell = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Spell");
     speed = speed * Time.deltaTime;
     }
     
     // Update is called once per frame
     void Update () {
         Move();
         dist = GameObject.Find("SpellRayCast").GetComponent<SpellRayCast>().destination;
         Checkawaken();
         if (awaken == true && woken == false) {
             anim.Play("Reanimate");
             woken = true;
 
         }
     }
     void Checkawaken(){
         awaken = GameObject.Find("SpellRayCast").GetComponent<SpellRayCast>().skelAwaken;
     }
     void Move(){
         if (woken == true && dist != null) {
             transform.position = Vector3.MoveTowards(transform.position, dist, speed);
         }
     }
 }