Who Surfcasts 3X-5X a week?

[EarnedStripes44]

last season, it was usually a weekend thing. but that will change.

[Back Beach]

Hey seriously though, if you're one of the people who doesn't live near the water or has other responsibilities, it’s critical to pick your spots and timing. When it comes right down to it, I do a lot of prepping/study of the spots I frequent and how the factors may affect them. Even with a lot of years doing this, I’m still lucky if I bat .300. That means if I’m putting in those three nights during a week, only one is going to produce anything substantial, meaning one large fish. The other two nights are usually non productive in terms of numbers and sizes as it gets tougher to track what’s going on and becomes more a matter of throwing darts. The upside is every once in a while you hit the bulls eye, but you can’t possibly out produce people that do it 5, 6, 7 nights a week. Accepting this fact has made it easy for me to endure countless skunkings in hopes of being right every once in a while.

[Mr. Krinkle]

Early May - Late November i'm out probably 3X a week.

[Joe]

The more you fish the better pulse you have on what the fish are doing, the better you do. Experience gives you more "calendar spots," days when so long as the weather is favorable, the odds are very good - no recon necessary.

[spence]

Originally Posted by Joe

The more you fish the better pulse you have on what the fish are doing, the better you do. Experience gives you more "calendar spots," days when so long as the weather is favorable, the odds are very good - no recon necessary.

Exactly, this is my biggest challenge.

-spence

[RIROCKHOUND]

Originally Posted by spence

Exactly, this is my biggest challenge.

-spence

Spence you have more challenges than that... hell you wont leave the house if you don't match; thats why you never fish... no fashion sense...

[RIROCKHOUND]

Well said.
more nights just means more chances to bat .300, but I bet that average stays about the same... unless of course you find a pod of fish and can hit them for weeks on end in the same area then you hit it as hard as possible

[JohnR]

Originally Posted by Joe

The more you fish the better pulse you have on what the fish are doing, the better you do. Experience gives you more "calendar spots," days when so long as the weather is favorable, the odds are very good - no recon necessary.

Bingo

Originally Posted by RIROCKHOUND

Well said.
more nights just means more chances to bat .300, but I bet that average stays about the same... unless of course you find a pod of fish and can hit them for weeks on end in the same area then you hit it as hard as possible

Bingo

You need to be out 3+ nights per week to have the pulse of where they are AND others out that often on speed dial.

That is why my fish pulse is lackluster, I don't have the time out on a weekly basis to track 'em - that, and I suck

[Joe]

Some people's catch ratios are so high you would not believe it. (Not me.)
People I know who have fished a lot places including Rhode Island have told me that the fishing here is more predictable.

[Rockport24]

yeah and it gets very frustrating when you do put in the 3-4X a week and get nothing!! I haven't thought too much about my goals for next season but I think I just have to be more mobile and try more spots