When I was young, my dad would always take me surf fishing up north in Lancaster where his cousin lived. Surf fish in Lancaster was BORING. We would set up large 10+ foot poles with sand spikes and wait hours for one bite (if we were lucky). Then we would reel in a small fish on a reel with 20lb test. Needless to say, you can barely even tell you have a fish on, and what fun is that? I honestly never liked to surf fish until I learned how to do it the right way.
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The right way to surf fish was taught to me an event called the Fred Hall Show in Long Beach. A man at the Berkley seminar booth for salt water fishing techniques was explaining to us the art that is surf fishing. He taught us that the right way to surf fish requires a ~7 foot, high action pole (very easy to bend), about a 1 oz egg sinker (depending on the current you can heighten the amount of weight or lower it), a swivel, sand crabs or the Berkley artificial shrimp and sand worms he mentioned, and a 2-4 sized hook. The hook, weight, and swivel were to be tied in a Carolina Rig (like the one shown below). The weight and hook combination with the high action 7 foot pole sounded surprisingly similar to the gear we had for trout fishing! With this new completely foreign information my dad and I hit the surf! With our trout gear!
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Our first experience surf fishing with our trout gear was less exciting than we expected. We went down to crystal cove and used Berkley shrimp but we caught nothing... What we needed was practice and experience with this new gear along with knowledge of tides and other factors.
Next post will have more surf fishing information.
Brandon Lynch
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