Approach to Day surfcasting

[american spirit]

I've seen some pictures and read some stories on this site about day fishing and people catching large during the day. Being exclusively a night fisherman with some dawn patrol, i'm wondering if your approach is different than night fishing.

no crowds, no boats, deep water vs. shallow water, ect. I don't know. I think this topic has been discussed before (night vs. day surfcasting). Curious why some of you guys choose to head out during the daytime.

[Bishop169]

When I'm out during the day its more or less to kill time or take in the sites

Some times I find a keeper or two

For fishing I have a couple of spots that sometimes produce during the day. I find day fishing good for trying out new plugs and seeing what I can pull in chunking with some of my newbie friends that don’t want to sit in the dark all night....

I can honestly say day fishing hasn't worked so well for me for pulling in big striped ones but I've grabbed some fluke and a couple of blues...

[Tagger]

I have been fishing nights mostly lately but usaully don't feel the need to fish nights until the first extended heat wave ,, coming soon ...

[Back Beach]

Wooooooh, I love this topic but am running out of time right now. Will revisit this tomorrow.

[Nebe]

i'll do a day trip once in a while in the summer- deep water and bait is my rule. squid or pogies.

[Rob Rockcrawler]

I avoid bluebird days, overcast basically crappy weather is a lot more productive for me. I seek out the white water and stick with spook type plugs and recently white sluggos. For a couple years i had my PB on a bluebird day in august. About 90 degrees, and the bass hit not 10 feet from shore in bout 3 feet of white water. What was that fish thinkin.

[RIJIMMY]

I only surfcasted in daylight to delay the long ride home

[Grapenuts]

for the most part it is nite fishing if your shore bound, but not always...had places that were so public if you showed yourself hauling in bass during the day it would be elbow to elbow the next day....so you went under cover of darkness and late enough that most were headed to bed at that hour....now if you went during the day at those same places you made sure it was pee soup fog to the point you couldn't see your rod tip.....these places held fish 24 hours except at dead low tide.Now I don't worry about it if it's 12 midnite or 12 highnoon in the middle of august.....cause I boat fish ONE place that holds the fish 24 hours a day.

[numbskull]

There are plenty of fish within reach of the surfcaster during the day. Fooling them is just harder.

[ilovetwofish]

Mostly daytime because all my fishing friends are afraid of the dark and I would rather not be on the rocks by myself.

[JFigliuolo]

Originally Posted by ilovetwofish

Mostly daytime because all my fishing friends are afraid of the dark and I would rather not be on the rocks by myself.

Write this down in your "to-do" List.
1. get new friends.
2. get comfortable alone at night.

[RIJIMMY]

Originally Posted by JFigliuolo

Write this down in your "to-do" List.
1. get new friends.
2. get comfortable alone at night.

[MAKAI]

YOU NEED 30 KNOTS IN YOUR FACE FOR STARTERS

[tattoobob]

Big surf
White water
Sea Worms or Clams
Tins and small poppers
Overcast Skies

For me Day time fishing is either a fall deal
or from a boat

[bloocrab]

I thought that kind of fishing was the kind done on the computer all day long ???

[doktorfaustus77]

I caught a 28" bass in shallow water yesterday. very bright conditions. that is not the norm for me though.

[numbskull]

Daytime fishing has its plus sides. Today, high noon, low tide, gibbs pencil. The fish is only 31" but my sister wanted one to eat, the dog needed a walk, and the spectators were impressed....as well as impressive themselves. Lost a moderately better one when the swivel failed on a well worn Gibbs pencil. Nighttime is clearly better, but there a plenty of decent fish swimming around in the middle of the day........very close to shore.

[7milebridge]

I tend to find that a lot of fish besides the great stiper bite during the day. I was at a local spot last year at noon with a nice high tide. I saw my brother get a hit, and I thought he was going to go water skiing. My brother is 25, and beefy. He fought the fish for a good 20minutes, and when we got it to the wall it was a gorgeous tuna. We also tend to get monk fish, sea bass, or flounder more during the day. If stripers are what your going for I would say fish more towards night, but for the rest of the fish the day time is a great time.