Still surf fishing to me. You enter the water through the surf but you don't accept the limits of having to stand on land. I don't see a whole lot of difference between wading waist deep and being willing to actually swim while fishing. Swimming is just taking it a little further. Your not leveraging technology. Other than the boyancy of a wetsuit all you have to count on is your own physicality.
Again, it just amounts how much sack or stupidity you have depending on how you look at it.
Problem with that is some of these guys are swimming far out beyond the longest cast anyone can hope to make "from the surf". It's definitely an unfair advantage and that IMO is when it no longer can be classified as surf fishing.
Of course, the old heave and haul guys likely felt the same way about rods and reels. Curious thing is that with a wet suit, fins, and an eel you probably don't need a rod or a reel to fish effectively. I'll bet that's next.
Problem with that is some of these guys are swimming far out beyond the longest cast anyone can hope to make "from the surf". It's definitely an unfair advantage and that IMO is when it no longer can be classified as surf fishing.
Why is it unfair? Because you can't or are unwilling to do it? I won't push myself that far and maybe can't either but imo that doesn't make it unfair. I guess I just give the few who do it the credit I feel they deserve. They are taking a higher risk and if it does result in bigger fish then to me they earned it.
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