Surfcasting defined....

[Flaptail]

At 25 sw at the Race the wind would be on your port quarter and still producing "surf" but go just around to 2nd rip and then you would be in the calm, no surf stuff.

Then you would be bait fishing with a live eel or more correctly shore fishing.Everryone knows the true surfcasting (w/plugs) doesn't happen until you get south of High head in Truro anyway! RP is a lee shore most times!

Numby, I know it was a joke, so wasn't mine!

[Back Beach]

Originally Posted by Flaptail

At 25 sw at the Race the wind would be on your port quarter and still producing "surf" but go just around to 2nd rip and then you would be in the calm, no surf stuff.

Then you would be bait fishing with a live eel or more correctly shore fishing.Everryone knows the true surfcasting (w/plugs) doesn't happen until you get south of High head in Truro anyway! RP is a lee shore most times

If it was a NE wind though, you'd be surf fishing the back and shore fishing the race.
Its also possible you could be surf fishing the race one minute and shore fishing it shortly after.
The really serious question is though, would the fish count?

On another note, if you were fishing cutty from the rocks in a wetsuit and a fish struck your offering while you were simultaneously being lifted off your rock by a rogue wave, would you be surf casting or skishing?

[The Dad Fisherman]

Originally Posted by Back Beach

On another note, if you were fishing cutty from the rocks in a wetsuit and a fish struck your offering while you were simultaneously being lifted off your rock by a rogue wave, would you be surf casting or skishing?

You'd be crapping your your wetsuit

[Rockport24]

that article was awesome, I want to go skishing now!
I guess a van stall would be standard equipment though and I don't gots one!

[Flaptail]

Originally Posted by Back Beach

If it was a NE wind though, you'd be surf fishing the back and shore fishing the race.
Its also possible you could be surf fishing the race one minute and shore fishing it shortly after.
The really serious question is though, would the fish count?

On another note, if you were fishing cutty from the rocks in a wetsuit and a fish struck your offering while you were simultaneously being lifted off your rock by a rogue wave, would you be surf casting or skishing?

Body surfing as you aren't wearing flippers!

[Jenn]

Oh my! my head hurts now....


Surf fishing definatelty requires that your feet are on some sort of land be it sand or rock. If your in a boat you are BOAT FISHING....duh!!!!

[Slipknot]

surf fishing ends when you step on a boat or sit on a yak

boat fishing ends when you step off your boat or get off your yak

now don't be confusing and cast from a boat and fight a fish from shore, that is some kind of hybrid fishing to be discussed in another thread at some point this winter at a later date to be determined.

[RickBomba]

Mikey's gonna be mighty mad at you for that one, Bruce.
Good thing he doesn't get to the computer much.
I call what I do, "shore fishing."
Sometimes rocks, sometimes dry, sometimes beach.
Sometimes sandeel mustachio.
Sometimes crab claw pipe, with the rope around my head.
Sometimes I walk a long way, sometimes I just putt around Cutty getting into trouble.
Sometimes I save somebody else from trouble out there, sometimes they save me.
Usually I'm pretty happy just walking around, daytime or night.
Lots of times my friends are there.....
That's the only thing that really makes me happy.
I'd list all of you, but that would take too long.
Most often, what anybody else would deem "surfcasting" is what I do.
Caveat is that most of my friends call what I do, "Deep Sea Fishing."
It's certainly not that.
I call it "FUN."
OK that's Richard G. Bombardier Jr's definition of my sport.
I'm out.
Rick

[RickBomba]

And Bruce,
What we do from the yak is what Mikey's termed "kayaksting."
I sure as hell don't call it surfcasting, though.
I kind of call it cheating.
Catches fish, though.
Keep them damn seals away!
Lata,
Rick