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I consider myself a surfcaster even though I don't get out as much as I would like. I am involved in what I consider a great surfcasting club and spend too much time looking on this site when I am supposed be working. What I am looking for in articles in OTW or other publications is to get the feeling of anticipation that I get when I close my car door and start walking in my waders to the surf. I am looking to get " horsed up " for fishing as Joe Lyons stated above. Flaptail's articles do it. I fish from the surf because I feel a sense of excitement and that I am doing something that makes me feel good inside when I am doing it, not because I have to catch. I like to read something or hear a guy talk that has enthusiasm for the sport- to feel that we share a common bond. I think it is amazing to talk to a guy that has been fishing 100 nights for 30 years and he still has the juice for it. Zeno's article was good for me because I grew up on Long Island and when I was 14, my father booked a charter boat for stripers out of Montauk. It was 1968. A noreaster blew out the trip and my father took me down to the Montauk lighthouse to show me the surf and why the boats could not get out of the inlet. Articles do not have to be literary workd of art or the Old Man and the Sea, but if they give me some sense of the bond we share and the wonder of the caster at the edge of the unknowable sea- then I am into it.
PS: Flaptail please come back.
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