Anyone Else do Any Surf Fishing?

[Oracle of Delphi]

I find it relaxing, here's an example ...

[XP715]

I do! Love to go deep sea fishing when I'm able. It's in my blood (grandfather was a commercial lobster fisherman and taught my father everything about it). My father bought a 34-foot Webber Cove downeast lobster boat last fall, and every Sunday I go down to his shop and help him work on it, readying it for next season. Can't wait!

[Oracle of Delphi]

I do! Love to go deep sea fishing when I'm able. It's in my blood (grandfather was a commercial lobster fisherman and taught my father everything about it). My father bought a 34-foot Webber Cove downeast lobster boat last fall, and every Sunday I go down to his shop and help him work on it, readying it for next season. Can't wait!

Sounds like a lot of fun, I sometimes go out on my friends boat, I have been out as far as 40 miles, can't see any land in any direction, now that's Heaven ... Friends, fish and beer ...

[Intrepidation]

I've never been deep sea fish, but it's something I've always wanted to do. I went surf fishing last year....it was fun, even if we didn't catch anything. I want to fish more when the weather gets good.

[longtooth]

Yes.

Last Fall there were sizable schools of bunker holding very close to shore on the leeward side of the jetties.

Alternately being fed-upon by schools of 18 lb. blues and occasionally (like one-in ten) schools of stripers.

One fine day they held in the same spot for hours and all I needed to do was snag a bunker with a 4 oz. Crippled Herring lure then re-hook the bunker just behind the dorsal fin around the spine. This made the ill-fated bunker uncomfortable no doubt but resulted in a near instant hook-up with a bluefish, or later that afternoon, a 22 lb. striper.

Wunderbar.

[Camino LS6]

We just gave all of my dad's old surf fishing gear to my uncle.

I just don't do oceans.

[trinacriabob]

I just don't do oceans.

there are many of us here who DON'T want to do "ocean."

That aside, I don't like hanging out in the sharks' living room.

[Camino LS6]

Oh boy, I had better leave it right there...

[Satty]

Does throwing a stick of dynamite in count as fishing?

[longtooth]

Does throwing a stick of dynamite in count as fishing?

Going for your next Darwin Award?

If so, yes it does.

[ocnblu]

I used to live much closer to the MD and DE ocean beaches. I love the beach, especially Assateague just south of Ocean City, MD. While I don't fish, it looks fun except for hooking some innocent creature accidentally and having to try to avoid killing it while fishing for something edible. It always pains me to see a surf fisherman pull in something like a skate or a ray, injured by his hook, and then try to remove the hook to avoid killing the creature, an attempt met with varying degrees of success. Edited March 1, 2009 by ocnblu

[caddycruiser]

So that's what they call THAT...

...says the Delaware beach living person who obviously thinks of fishing as a foreign concept. At least I now know what that's called the, maybe, once a year I'm on the sand at the right time and see people doing it. Fun memory from years back was a family dog walk on the beach, with a few guys set up surf fishing, and one reeled in a baby shark. THAT was a surprise, both to him and everyone in view.