Should "wetsuiting" be its own category of fishing

[flyvice11787]

Originally Posted by luds

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.

I give them lots of credit. They may be just a bit nuts to be doing that, but I do give them credit .

Originally Posted by luds

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.

I know you already prefaced that the use of a vessel makes it something other than surf fishing, but if one were to replace the wetsuit and fins with a kayak and paddle in the above quote, it would be interchangeable. The kayak would just be keeping you higher up in the water to facilitate casting. That's why I believe the buoyancy of the wetsuit and the fins are an extra technological edge. You use them to propel yourself out to the fish. We'll just have to agree to disagree .

[luds]

Originally Posted by flyvice11787

We'll just have to agree to disagree .

I agree.

[Finaddict]

There are surf fishermen who use wetsuits and are still surfishing ... there are skishers who are a little bit beyond surf fishing ...

... in fact I almost ran a guy over one pre-dawn morning in Montauk about 10-12 years ago, couldn't see the guy in the water ... it was crazy and I wouldn't say that guy was surf fishing, and I don't think he'd say it either ... but wouldn't fault him either ... I hope he caught fish that day and glad I was not a little closer to shore ... that fellow was not on a rock either ...

.... I do know of a few spots where I would have preferred to have a wetsuite on instead of waders, would have been safer ... and I was surfishing ...

... skishing is definitely a little bit beyond surf fishing in my eyes ... but those guys also surf fish too.

Really how ever one wants to classify it for themselves.