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Plum - don't fret about it but I think I see what's happening here. You are asking some basic questions and after some people offer their advise, you seem to maintain your original plan and say you are going to do what you originally wanted to do anyway. That's OK as long as you understand that you are asking for advice and then kinda sorta rejecting it. Nobody requires you to use a particular recommended method but everyone here, regardless of current skills & abilities had to start somewhere. Now with all of books and sites and clubs, it is possible for you to not make all of the mistakes we made when we really got into it too.
Surffishing is truly a blast when you can make it work for you and it can be EXTREMELY frustrating when it doesn't work.
As far as when people say that some of your posts have an odd but familiar tone to them, some people in the past have made a habit out of trying to run before they could walk and offering all kinds of different approaches to catching fish that were really unneccesary and maybe even a bad way to go fishing. I don't think you are trying to be confrontational about it but I do think you may be trying to learn and do too much from the beginning. You also seem to quickly reject others sound recommendations pretty quickly. I want to say again that I am truly trying to be sincere in helping you here.
To give you an example, a couple weeks ago, you asked if you should use a sinker ahead of a jig to cast better and then to fish a particular depth and style. Just about everyone readily agreed that although it might work in some cases, the far better approach would be to just use a bigger jig suited for the kind of fishing you're talking about. You then said you would try your method anyway and asked for everyone to agree that your way should work anyway. Several people recommended that your way would not be the best for several good & sound reasons and tried to offer you the conventional approach which has developed and worked for generations. You implied (well the way a lot of us read into it) that since you had all these 1 ounce jigs & sinkers you would try it instead of using the recommendations others offered. Now that's OK, you can do what you want, but just understand that experementing with different ideas before you have the basics under your belt can easily lead to an unsaitsfactory fishing experience for you. And advocating those ideas against the recommendations of people that have varying time in years and in some cases decades of fishing the suds will cause a lot of people with time in fishing to shake their heads knowing you are probably going to do things wrong for the sake of doing things your way. That's OK, that's you choice, but others may take offering their guidance less seriously if you are going to reject or diminish their sound advise.
Please understand that the BEST way to surf fish is to enjoy it. If you don't enjoy fishing from the surf or if you try to do too many things at once that don't work, you could easily end up hating it and short changing yourself because it really truly is one of life's greatest pleasures.
Good luck & hope this helps,
John
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