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A shop owner was just telling me yesterday that I needed to get to the canal. He had a hard time believing that with all of the surf fishing that I do I’ve never been there and that I had a desire to fish it even with the recent epic bite that has been going on. I’ve always like the challenge of surf fishing and I think that’s one of the reasons that the canal has no appeal to me. I grew up doing a lot of boat fishing, then tried kayak fishing for more of a challenge and finally settled on surf fishing. I find it very rewarding spending months or even years trying to figure out a spot and finally, if I’m lucky, cracking the code to getting big fish there. Walking down to the bank of the canal at noon and throwing pencil poppers or magic swimmers to schools or 20-40# fish with 100 other guys just doesn’t have the same appeal to me. I also hate crowds and fishing around most other people so the canal is pretty much the opposite of what I find appealing in surf casting.
I’m not trying to say that guys shouldn’t enjoy fishing up there especially when the bite is on it’s just not something that I would find very enjoyable.
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