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Several things come to mind here. I have taken a lot of big fish in the day surfcasting and wading certain flats while flyfishing. Surfcasting was always with a big swimming plug and the Danny plug is the number one choice, especially in the spring of the year and late fall which are your best chance for this type of sport but.....therehave been occasions on mid summer days in clear weather and high heat where fish have shown.
Bigger fish can be suckers for flies thrown into the curl on sunny days and your chances increase when fishing locales where they are not shore shy due to bathers/boaters etc. South beach in Chatham, Monomoy, the Elizabeths, Wood End and Long Point would fit such place descriptions. It always amazes me how a ruly large fish can be fooled into eating a three inch long fly.
Wading deserted outer Cape beaches with a white or yellow pencil popper on sunny days can be effective too, low tide when you can wade out to bars and cast the cut edges between them.
Daylight of course has better periods such as dusk and false dawn to just as the sun peaks out of the eastern horizon but you can catch fish all day if you are willing to put in some miles.
Some of the best surface swimming plug action can be had in daylight.
Numbskull and I and a few others have experienced this many times, though I prefer the dead of night for a lot of reasons daylight plugging can be very good at times.
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