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Ben, I agree. The challenge of reading a beach and trying to pry it's secrets open is more appealling than rocky shores or jetty fishing. The dangers of jetty and rock fishing are the slippery surfaces and sea conditions but you always know, once you learn them, year after year where the honey holes are. The beach sands are constantly shifting from the affects of both winter and summer storms. Also the beach rebuilds itself which is an interesting phenomena. Go to Pochet Hole on Nauset in February and take a picture, then go back in June and you will see what I mean. I think it takes more thought and more analysis to fish the beach than rocks because of the constant condition changes. I will admit it hurts a lot more to wipe out on a jetty though. One thing you should always take with you at night when wading onto an offshore bar is a small hand held or pin on compass. Two years ago at Coast Guard Beach in Eastham on an evening walk out to Nauset inlet I waded out to a bar as darkness fell and a fog rolled in. I did not plan to stay out to long but good fortune took hold and I started catching fish, nice fish at that. Well you know what happens then no matter how much experience you have you forget about the wade back and the fog for just one more cast. If it wasn't for that little compass that Doc Crago gave me years ago as a Christmas present I would not be here today and that is a fact. I had to swim but I knew where I had to swim to and that is the difference between life and death.
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