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I might do some crazy things at times, but believe me I take all the precautions I can for safety. If you spend alot of time on the water than you should be pretty familiar with the water, currents, and tides you fish. Sometimes the fish just arent on the beach in numbers, especially during the summer months. In alot of rocky shorelines, to increase you're catch it becomes necesarry to get out to the "Reef line" where the bass will be traveling. This is common On alot of Rhody'y coastline, Martha's, Block and so on. One of the oddest to fish is Cuttyhunk, I've snorkeled and fished some parts of that island and it is amazing how deep it gets right off the beach. There are a few nice rocks you can get on in a wetsuit, however it becomes pretty unneccessary. The fish tend to be right on the beach almost all the time as opposed to the other spots I mentioned, where you really increase you're odds the further you are out. I can't say you would need a wetsuit fishing alot of Newport, Beavertail, Naragansett, or other areas where you are fishing pretty deep water right of the beach. Weather or not you need a wetsuit really depends on where you will spend most of you're time fishing. The way I look at it, alot of those spots that are fished from shore get pounded from surfcasters. Once in the summer months you begin to pick alot of resident fish and as the water warms they tend to be deeper unless there is bait on the beach. I want to get out on some of those outer rocks and fish some of that "Virgin" water....All I know is when others are complaining on how slow it is I just smile....
As far as swimming out to and fishing Nashaweena from shore....When I didn't find them 30+lbers on the beach in Cutty I found them there. Think those fish get as much pressure there as Cutty?
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