Surf fishing.....staying dialed in

[shadow]

3 nights seems to be an average most are fishing,I also average three nights a week, I sometimes do more just depends on the family thing.most of my nights out are during the week almost never fish weekends.some sort of net work is also good to know where the fish are if you can't find them in your hole.

[Grampy]

Dad, fish now, you can sleep all winter -

and I think yep, you're right you can't surf fish in January.

[emgred]

Right now, I can only get in two nights a week of fishing. In the fall, that will jump to four or five nights a week. In either case, I use three things to stay dialed in.
1 - Good network of people I trust.
2 - Boat reports. (when the boats find fish, they have also found the bait so that gives me two indications of what surf areas might produce.)
3 - THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT Using #1 & #2 I go to my many years of logs.

Has worked pretty well for a number of years.

[luds]

At least 3 nights plus network sounds about right to me. The network doesn't need to be that big. Just a few guys you trust is enough. I guess having a bunch of guys you would be better but that rarely works out.

[Terence]

10 days straight when the moon is right then zombie city for a few days . Rest Repeat.

[Mr. Sandman]

Stay connected to your areas and know the guys that fish them. Know who is doing what. You know where they fish so if someone you know or know of is conecting you don't even need to talk about spots...you know where he probably was.

I tend to bounce around a lot at times when the bite slows at my most favorite spots because I just want to see what is happening, even if you don't catch you will learn something. The worst thing you can do is sleep when you are suppose to be fishing...as one zombie-eyed SB.com guy once told me..."There is plenty of time to sleep when I am dead...or when I go back to work!"