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fishing with a spear... spearfishing fishing with bait... bait fishing fishing with flyrod...flyfishing fishing with a bow... bow fishing it is just moving bait to a fruitful destination or finding a way to retrieve a fish otherwise. yakfishing? just another way to fish.

 

who is ?

 

a friend brought up a good point....he said one of the most important aspects of surf fishing has always been distance casting....but if someone is paddling out your bait....its not really as much of a sport anymore.....agree or disagree?

Distance casting?? It can play a big part in surf fishing,especially at places like the point where your bait is in competition with other baits..

I feel one of the main aspects of surf fishing to be reading the beach,knowing what fish and where it's going to be,as well as when it will be there,how to rig making sure all your stuff stays buttoned up to the fish.. [/B] IMHO, DISTANCE CASTING on a normal stretch of beach,say n beach at ramp 23 to 34,comes in AFTER ALL MENTIONED ABOVE..[/B]

When yaking a bait out you use many of the aspects of surfishing mentioned above,minus distance casting,which the yak makes null and void.. There were some who didn't use the hook to yak out a bait.. They used other stretches of beach,and were successful as well.. In other words,I feel yaking to be surfishing as well,jmo....

 

Another form of fishing I agree but def not surf fishing.. I belong to the Cape Hatteras Anglers Club and no fish I catch from the yak will count in their member touny..Or assisted by a yak ie: paddled bait.. Which is rightfuly so the yak gives ya an unfair advantage to attack a school of fish far from the shore.. I agree its awesome fishing from the yak but surf fishing it is not.. JMHO.. JAM

 

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your feet are in the "sand" when you hook and catch a fish from the "sand" or " surf" its surf fishing to me. just my 02 zents. i cant cast far anyway

 

Okay, my two cents worth. Me figure it to be at best a hybrid version of surf fishing. Figure if it was the "true intent" of surf fishing, well then, all the surf fishing tournies would allow an entrant to yak out bait, which to the best of my knowledge, is not the case. Productive yes, and if a crowded beach, and need to settle on a less than good prospective fishing spot, well gives you a better catching chance, so, true surf fishing in the "old fashioned" sense, no, but time and place for its use, without a doubt, it has a place.

Have Jeep will travel

 

I got no problem with yaking baits out, but it is kinda like Bonds if you are gonna call it surf fishing*

 

I got no problem with yaking baits out, but it is kinda like Bonds if you are gonna call it surf fishing*

LMAO!!!

 

who cares?????? just catch dem damn fish....................................by any means nessesary


thinkin about using a small cesna or a gyrocopter this weekend to get my baits to the gulf stream

 

anyway you'd call it

It's fishing. Just leave it as that. If you don't like the ways other people do it, do it your way.

 

oh i never said i didnt like it....just thought it was interesting

 

when i go to the baseball fields across from my house in asheville and throw from the lower field over the tree line to the upper field, in my mind, i am surf fishing for the elusive "grass drum". thus far they have evaded me, but one of these days.
charlie

 

Kite's

I've actually seen someone rig a kite on a western wind to get their line out. I think they had one of those release swiveles and yanked on the line from the kite to make it drop. It was quite creative.

 

Another form of fishing I agree but def not surf fishing.. I belong to the Cape Hatteras Anglers Club and no fish I catch from the yak will count in their member touny..Or assisted by a yak ie: paddled bait.. Which is rightfuly so the yak gives ya an unfair advantage to attack a school of fish far from the shore.. I agree its awesome fishing from the yak but surf fishing it is not.. JMHO.. JAM

In the "purist sense",yes I would agree,Jam.. But we ain't feeshin tourneys,we be stuck on the beach with the wind a howlin outta da ne,and just so happens ya can yak out a bait in the hook.. Let's just call it the "oportunistic" way of surf fishin...

 

If your feet are in the sand and you're fighting the fish with the aid of a boat, I call that surf fishing.

I'm sure the first person who saw someone throwing a heaver thought Aw, now that's cheating. Technology and techniques evolve but the central fact remains the same: you, tied directly to a fish without the aid of a boat to fight it. One of you wins, one of you loses.

 

I'd say generally, that if you had someone yak out your bait, you'd have to mention that fact when you bragged about hooken' a big'un, so, due to that fact, it's not what people usually consider "surf fishing", in my opinion.

Getting the bait to where the fish are is the most important thing, cuz it seems like they'll eat most anything once you get it there, even feathers w/ fake eyes and sharp metal hooks attached to them. Some people (gasp!! ) even use plastic tubs w/ motor engines attached to propel them to where the fish are.

Not sure who I agree with here.

 

In Texas we call it surf fishing. If you have a heaver spiked, its called surf fishing. If you have a wal-mart special and the waves are breaking, its surf fishing. If your 4 yr old just got knocked over in the wash and dumped his Snoopy combo, its still called surf fishing.
Waves + sand + rod and reel = surf fishing.
How you get your bait in the water is up to you.
Chapa

 

i dont know if it matters? what kinda question is that? all i know is it works, ima do whatever i can do to keep my catch ratio above my fishing ratio... so weather its surf-fishing or yakked out bait fishing, if the conditions are favorable, cobia/shark im going to yak a bait and not worry about if its surfishing or not... at the end of the day all im worried about is if i caught some fish or not. never really care if its yakked or cast. Drum, thats another story, but for food and sharks, i'll yak anytime i can

 

My dear old daddy taught me the REAL PURIST way of surf fishing, the way they did it on the island in Greece, they used a hand line wrapped around cork or wood and threw it from the beach. TRUE SURF FISHIN' I wonder if they'd count THAT in a tourney

 

My dear old daddy taught me the REAL PURIST way of surf fishing, the way they did it on the island in Greece, they used a hand line wrapped around cork or wood and threw it from the beach. TRUE SURF FISHIN' I wonder if they'd count THAT in a tourney

I remember years ago seeing pictures at the Wright Mem. of folks catching real Drum with hand lines on the beach.

CATCHEMUP,

Mike

 

What this low down, dirty, rotten, no count, worthless, nanner eatter did wasn't surf fishn, it wasn't Yak fishn hail I will not even call it fishn period,,,,,,,,,,,


It's called CATCHEN

I seen guys yakn out baits and watched a many of them get flipped and crash ,,, yaking out baits ain't as easy as ya might think,,, it's a lot easier to stand on the beach and toss them but if ya want to catch fish ya do what ya gotta do to "GET-ER DONE"

And yea he is my friend so I am allowed to pick on him

 

What this low down, dirty, rotten, no count, worthless, nanner eatter did wasn't surf fishn, it wasn't Yak fishn hail I will not even call it fishn period,,,,,,,,,,,


It's called CATCHEN

I seen guys yakn out baits and watched a many of them get flipped and crash ,,, yaking out baits ain't as easy as ya might think,,, it's a lot easier to stand on the beach and toss them but if ya want to catch fish ya do what ya gotta do to "GET-ER DONE"

And yea he is my friend so I am allowed to pick on him

ya damn right... yakin aint for the faint of heart. i watched teos friend go out for the first time... balls on the wall basically dissapear, flip his boat, jump back in, keep going drop his bait and land a 62lber. I dont know how many "surf fisherman" would just jump into the mix like that.... I think true FHB's will do anything including oportunistic things to catch fish... if your driving the beach and see a guy bowed up in a blitz are you gonna drive away and set up somewhere else bc technicallly he found the fish and thats not really fishing cause you didnt find them? well I'd hop out say "whats up man" and cast... as long as your not messing up someone else, (yaking when there are 80 other lines out and using a 8oz sinker or coming in and hitting lines and droping baits in the wrong place) do whatever you can to catch you a fish thats the point right? yakkers definately aint going anywhere, every year we se more and more, so the it must work?!

 

It's all fishing too me! Some tourneys may not allow it with that being said, you guys that yak out baits, keep doing it because I love the pix of the results!

 

Way I see it, with more and more yakkers entering the fishing scene, surf fishing'll become MORE of a sport.....imagine, shoulder to shoulder folks flinging lead weights and a yakker arrives in the middle of the pack.....

Gives "yak attack" a whole new meaning...

Said differently, with the increase in yakkers showing up in the surf, better question/discussion might be one of courtesy between them and beach casters.

Anybody else see a user conflict debate shaping up on this matter?