Surf Fishing? Anybody?

[jaketomberlin]

How many people on here like to fish from the beaches, inlets, sounds, etc? I have been going to Hatteras island, North Carolina for 10 years and the fishing has always been great.

Where do you surf fish? What do you catch? what kind of rods, tackle, bait, etc.

I fish for Redfish, Striped bass, Bluefish, etc. on the Carolina coast. What I'm using most of the time is an 11 foot TICA surf rod with a Daiwa Slosh 20 baitcasting reel. I throw a 5-6 ounce weight with a piece of cut bait. Interested to see what you guys across the pond are using. Cheers

[omigosh]

I fish the NC coast also. I mostly fish in Atlantic Beach because I have a mobile home there. I enjoy surf fishing early in the morning and in the evening when the sun worshipers don't take over the beach. I use bottom rigs with shrimp or artificial bloodworms. I use a pyramid sinker anywhere from 3-6 oz. depending on how rough the surf is. When the spanish mackerel are running I cast a gotcha plug into the surf. I also have been fishing in the sound with my kayak. Great fun when you hook up with a good sized redfish and he decides to take you for a ride. I'll head to Hatteras in the winter to try to get the striped bass "rockfish". Been increasing the odds of catching them the past couple years by heading up to the Va. beach area out of Rudys inlet.
I use mostly big spinning reels and 10 to 12 foot surf rods in the surf except when going after the big stripers, then I use a baitcaster.

[jaketomberlin]

Awesome, that sounds so much like what we do in Hatteras. One of my favorite things to do is catch sea mullet on a bottom rigs with shrimp. They are great eating. We cast stingsilvers for Spanish in the summer just to make it past the sandbars.

Big drum on a kayak? that's insanse. We use kayaks to carry out baits for Cobia in the summer, and I usually take a jighead rod when I go out, but I've never caught a big drum from a "Yak".

I just got back from Buxton and I can tell you, the stripers haven't made it down to the surf in Hatteras island in years. There was a time (5 years ago) where you could wade out on a certain sandbar with a Hopkins spoon, and you would have 30 pound Stripers bumping your leg, almost knocking you down. That's no lie. That was just south of Oregon Inlet, on Pea Island, that might be a good place to try.

[hot0n0tot]

I'm sitting on a beach on sanibel island Florida fishing as I write this!! Catching more rays than fish due to a sudden temperature drop but yeah we use either shrimp or live pin fish during the day and will catch anything from mullet to snoop to amber jack to sea trout..at night a big ol weight and some cut bait have been known to yield some 300 lb+ bull sharks! Gotta love paradise

Keenan