Who Surfcasts 3X-5X a week?

[Back Beach]

Originally Posted by Bronko

This sounds great Mike. Let me know when this is up and running. I'll surely get the handicap into single digits when you roll this out.

I'm going to call it "Guaranteed Surf 50 in an hour" by Back Beach technologies. Its easier than turbo tax.

[LeCounts1099]

Everybody's jealous of somebody, Bryan/ RIR...


I thought I was doing good last Fall with my # 33 on Darter from M. surf on approx. Oct. 15th... 'till I heard later you did 2 (3?) better in a "slow" S. County Fall!

[zimmy]

I was getting out about 3 times a week may and june, less rest of the summer as the fish are a longer drive. This year with a 2 1/2 yo and new born, I am guessing it will be less

[Rockport24]

3 times a week was about average for me. My wife goes to school nights so I had open nights when she was at school. I'll be starting grad school next year myself and kids are not too far off the horizon, so this season may be my last 3-5 times a week season for a LOOOnggg time.

[Joe]

Originally Posted by Rockport24

3 times a week was about average for me. My wife goes to school nights so I had open nights when she was at school. I'll be starting grad school next year myself and kids are not too far off the horizon, so this season may be my last 3-5 times a week season for a LOOOnggg time.

Not that long - Only twelve years or so....

[EarnedStripes44]

last season, it was usually a weekend thing. but that will change.

[Back Beach]

Hey seriously though, if you're one of the people who doesn't live near the water or has other responsibilities, it’s critical to pick your spots and timing. When it comes right down to it, I do a lot of prepping/study of the spots I frequent and how the factors may affect them. Even with a lot of years doing this, I’m still lucky if I bat .300. That means if I’m putting in those three nights during a week, only one is going to produce anything substantial, meaning one large fish. The other two nights are usually non productive in terms of numbers and sizes as it gets tougher to track what’s going on and becomes more a matter of throwing darts. The upside is every once in a while you hit the bulls eye, but you can’t possibly out produce people that do it 5, 6, 7 nights a week. Accepting this fact has made it easy for me to endure countless skunkings in hopes of being right every once in a while.

[Mr. Krinkle]

Early May - Late November i'm out probably 3X a week.

[Joe]

The more you fish the better pulse you have on what the fish are doing, the better you do. Experience gives you more "calendar spots," days when so long as the weather is favorable, the odds are very good - no recon necessary.

[RIROCKHOUND]

Well said.
more nights just means more chances to bat .300, but I bet that average stays about the same... unless of course you find a pod of fish and can hit them for weeks on end in the same area then you hit it as hard as possible

[JohnR]

Originally Posted by Joe

The more you fish the better pulse you have on what the fish are doing, the better you do. Experience gives you more "calendar spots," days when so long as the weather is favorable, the odds are very good - no recon necessary.

Bingo

Originally Posted by RIROCKHOUND

Well said.
more nights just means more chances to bat .300, but I bet that average stays about the same... unless of course you find a pod of fish and can hit them for weeks on end in the same area then you hit it as hard as possible

Bingo

You need to be out 3+ nights per week to have the pulse of where they are AND others out that often on speed dial.

That is why my fish pulse is lackluster, I don't have the time out on a weekly basis to track 'em - that, and I suck

[EarnedStripes44]

I wish I could get out more often. Busy work week. Put in most of my work on the weekend.

[spence]

Originally Posted by Joe

The more you fish the better pulse you have on what the fish are doing, the better you do. Experience gives you more "calendar spots," days when so long as the weather is favorable, the odds are very good - no recon necessary.

Exactly, this is my biggest challenge.

-spence

[Joe]

Some people's catch ratios are so high you would not believe it. (Not me.)
People I know who have fished a lot places including Rhode Island have told me that the fishing here is more predictable.

[Rockport24]

yeah and it gets very frustrating when you do put in the 3-4X a week and get nothing!! I haven't thought too much about my goals for next season but I think I just have to be more mobile and try more spots

[Rockfish9]

Sunday night through Thursday night... no weekends.

[freebie]

I'm out 4-5 nights a week, depending on tides, wish I could fish all day every day though, once I hit the lottery I guess

[RIROCKHOUND]

Originally Posted by spence

Exactly, this is my biggest challenge.

-spence

Spence you have more challenges than that... hell you wont leave the house if you don't match; thats why you never fish... no fashion sense...

[NIB]

Originally Posted by tlapinski

3 - 5 trips per week from April through November is about right for me. It gets harder and harder each year between work, the mortgage, family life, living over an hour form the closest saltwater, etc... When I was younger and still living with my mom, I had seasons fishing 6 - 7 nights a week plus working a full time job and somehow finding time for school. Those were good times, but I get so much out of my family these days it more than offsets less time spent on the water.

When I was younger give me a break..
Trust me on this..do it now while u can..
Your only young once..

[BassDawg]

When they first reach the hahbah i'll sneak in that third or fourth sunrise a week. And again on their way back south i'll try to add a nite or two to the island with deer all over it.

Haven't done the SaugRiver circus, yet. May check that out this spring and that would afford me some more entries into the basslawg

Gotta keep it to weekends primarily with bride and child. My daughter will be 5 in april. the encouraging thing is my wife loves sunrises and soon the baby will be old enuff to get hooked .

[Surfpirate]

I am at 5+ a week.

how is that possible? I am born again single, live less than a mile from a bridge, it takes me 20 minutes from leaving my door to reach the beach and because it is part or my regular routine to go before and/ or after work; season, tide and moon depending.

[basswipe]

I'm good for at least 3x a week.But I've found that as I've become older the aches and pains have limited me to shorter outings and lighter tackle.

[Back Beach]

whoops. see new thread.