Fishing during daylight hours inside the bay, yes - it appears much easier. Not too many boat guys have the skills to fish the open ocean at night though.
Before the pogies came back like they have now, and people were tube-and-worming it, I think the better surfcasters caught more consistantly large fish than the average boaters - but not the better boat guys.
Boat fishing is easier in general - its less physically demanding and you will catch more and bigger fish on average (given a similar level of talent). However, being a good or great boat fisherman is no less impressive or less difficult than being a good or great surfcaster. Both take the same amount of dedication, time and hard work - the definition of success is just different. A great boat fisherman is going to outperform a great surfcaster by a large margin in terms of size and quantities of fish but you just can't compare relative catches. A surfcaster can really only be measured against other surfcasters as a boat fisherman can only be measured against other boat fisherman. Alot of surf guys seam to give good boat fisherman less credit than they deserve. Alot of boat guys look down on surf guys because their production doesn't compare.
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