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And it is also important for you to check out beach every time, because beaches has tendency of changing and you may find that spots, where you were fishing few days ago are not suitable anymore! The best way to do beach research is from some high point, if it is possible – it is easier to pick up some new channels or holes with dark water in them. If you are going for pelagic fish, like salmon or tuna, always watch for seabirds behaviour. If birds started packing up and diving – it means that pelagic fish are pushing baits to the surface and birds are ready to catch their own prize!

One of the most effective fishing techniques, while fishing from the beach, among the rig fishing, is heavy lure casting. Heavy lures can be cast precisely into the gutters and holes while walking along the beach. This type of fishing allows you actively hunt for fish and not wait for the fish to come to your rig and grab the bait!

For lure casting you may use following new models of Shimano fishing reels(but this recommendations are not limiting you of using other fishing reels):

1. Stella SW saltwater spinning reels range.
2. Citica E Bait-casting reels
Two new Citica reels – the CI200E and left-hand retrieve 201E, offer high speed 6.3:1 gear ratios and plenty of line capacity – up to 110 yards of 14-pound test. This Shimano fishing reel is ideal for inshore salt use.
3. Symetre FJ spinning reels
Now with Shimano’s five-component Propulsion Line Management System to virtually eliminate line twist, the new Symetre FJ spinning reels are available in five sizes for ultralight action to saltwater use – the SY500FJ, 1000FJ, 2500FJ, 3000FJ and 4000FJ.
Casting lures allows you to cover more ground and helps you locating schooling predators. Also constant casting will improve your accuracy and precision.

Fishing from the rocks has its own tricks! One of the great techniques is to cast out the bait and let out the line to make it drifting. After fish picks it up allow the fish to take a bit of line to be sure that fish swallowed the bait before striking. Another successful way of fishing from the rocks is high speed spinning. You may use here Shimano fishing reel like Tyrnos with high gear ratios.

Shimano expands its Tyrnos line-up with the topless design single speed TYR8 and 10 and two-speed TYR8II and 10II, and for long-range action, the two-range TYR50IILRS with a low profile top crossbar. All compact in design this Shimano fishing reel is equipped with high spool to frame ratios – plus the 50IILRS features a smaller protruding gearbox – they have extremely fast gear ratios (6.0:1 on the TYR 8 and 10 and in high on 8II, 10II, 4.0:1 in high on the 50IILRS) to move lures and pick up slack line quickly.

You may greatly succeed with high speed spinning, but if you are about larger fish – live baiting is the way! And one of the best Shimano fishing reel for this purpose is reels Torium series. The lightweight Torium fishing reel is a star-drag saltwater reel, perfect for live bait or for bottom – fishing. This fishing reel is packed with the following features:
- Super Stopper;
- Anti – Rust Bearings;
- High Efficiency Gearing.
This fishing reel available in sizes from the lightweight and compact 14 to the heavy-duty 50, with its 440-yard line capacity and 30 pounds of drag

Surf Fishing Tips – Fish Any Beach in the World!

Surf fishing at the beach on the ocean can get real exciting. In this article I will outline surf fishing tips I have learned through the years that anyone can use. Some tips have been acquired through personal experience and from other successful surf fishing friends.

First you need to make sure you have the adequate equipment. A fishing rod that is between 10 feet and 15 feet long is the ideal length in order to achieve good casting distance and leverage. The fishing reel can be a spinning reel size 6000 up to an 8000 size with a good drag system and good line capacity for heavier line such as 17 to 25 pound test. One thing to remember about fishing in the ocean, you never know what you will catch, so you need to be prepared with the proper heavy equipment to handle a 30 pound sting ray or a large blue fish that have giant teeth, not to mention the occasional shark. Sometimes you will catch small fish like whiting or lady fish that are too small for a heavy rod, but being prepared for the big one is really what you want.

Choosing where to fish is another choice to be made. If you are at a home or condo on the ocean front you would most likely fish right out front. Then look for activity on top of the water, like birds diving into the water feeding on bait fish. Where there are small fish there are big fish not too far away. Fish close to them if you can, otherwise get out your polarized sunglasses and look for bait fish near where you are standing. If you don’t see any, just cast out to where the waves break and let your bait float in the sandy trenches the waves create. That is where fish will look for food.

Always look at the tide chart for your area and pick your fishing times around high tides. The best time is usually 2 hours before and one to two hours after high tide. Surf fishing at these times can usually yield the most activity. Also try early morning and early evening which is normally a good fishing time. Coupled with high tide, this time frame can be very exciting and productive.

Other fishing gear you need will be a 5 gallon bucket to carry your bait, drinking water, towel, knife, cutting board for cutting up clams etc and rod stand. Plus you may want another carry all for everything mentioned after you put some fish in the bucket for cleaning later. You should also consider using a steel leader and a good hook rig such as a pompano rig or a strong steel hook attached to the steel leader. For sinkers you can use the pyramid style or the sputnik style. I use the sputnik style because it sticks in the sand and allows the bait to float in the water. The weight of the sinker or weight depends on how rough the surf is. The pyramid style can tend to roll with the surf and back to shore again.

Surf fishing tips like these can help you get started fishing the surf. Always check out the local bait shops to buy bait and ask what’s been biting lately, then gear up accordingly.

If you would like to learn more from an expert, please check out my web page on Surf Fishing Tips. http://myfishinggoods.com/surf_fishing_tips.html

How to Catch a Fish on Any Beach in the World

I’m sure you’ve seen them there, when you went to the beach: sunglasses, hat, and shorts wearing barefoot guys with long slender fishing rods staring off to the horizon. I also bet you wondered about what, if anything they ever caught and how they know where and when to fish.

I know I did until I tried my hand at surf fishing, and after a many hours of getting nothing but pruney toes, I finally figured out what surf fishing is all about, and since then, it has become an almost spiritual hobby, being alone on the beach, at first off hours of the day staring off into the sunset, truing to outsmart wily surf fish.

The truth is that when the surf fish are running, they’re almost ridiculously east to catch so long as you understand the basics of surf fishing. Every year, between Christmas and New Years, I head down to the beach with a bucket and a fishing rod, and half fill the bucket with barred surfperch, a staple of Southern California and the coast of Baja California down Mexico way. Barred perch spawn in this time so there are plenty to catch in a couple hours to make up a nice meal for a crew of six or eight.

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After mastering the barred perch, I’ve turned my attention to other denizens of the beach, including Corbina, the king of California and Mexico surf fishes, and Spotfin Croaker, one of the finest eating fishes of the surf. I have friends who even target Halibut form the surf and have seen them land 36 inch California Halibut fishing with a fly from the surf. In fact, the Halibut world record holder fly fisherman in two separate line classes fishes regularly form the surf not 5 miles from my home, and it is there that he hooked his record holders.

I have exported my surf fishing knowledge successfully deep down the Mexican Pacific Coast, the Gulf Coast of the US, the Northeast, the Mid Atlantic States, and even in the Far East. I fished along side and Old Japanese man sitting on a beach on the inland sea in Yamaguchi Prefecture on the southern tip of Honshu Island, as he explained to me in excruciating detail exactly how to catch, handle, and hook the appropriate bait.

H was speaking in Japanese of course, as I smiled, nodded and interjected an occasional “ah so.” Actually I do speak some Japanese but it’s limited to ordering food, finding the bathroom, and teasing young girls, so the vast majority of what he was saying was going totally over my head, but I would never have let on that I was only catching about every fourth word.

Ok, so much for my surf fishing exploits, I’m sure you’re wondering, “How DO I catch fish in the surf anywhere in the world?” Well, I’m glad you asked. The first thing you have to understand is that the fish you are going to catch in the surf know what they’re doing. This is their habitat. These aren’t fish that normally inhabit deeper water but just happened to wander to the water’s edge, these fish are there intentionally. It’s what they do. They’re good at it. The only reason they’re here is that they’re hunting for food. They’ve leaned how to carve out an existence by eating what is on the very beach you are standing on.

I have to laugh when I talk to surf fisherman that I happen across. I was talking to one particularly frustrated guy who was fishing in Malibu and was complaining that the guy who had this spot just before he came was catching lots of perch but he wasn’t having such good luck. I asked him what he was using for bait and he showed me this package of fresh shrimp he’d just bought at the supermarket. Well, trust me, this wasn’t fresh shrimp, it was defrosted, and it sure looked to me like the farmed shrimp from Thailand.

He’s have been far better off taking those shrimp home, sautéing them in some butter, garlic and lemon, and pouring them over some pasta, than wasting his time fishing with them on a California Beach. This was mistake number one.

As I stood there watching and talking with this fisherman, I also noticed another serious gap in his surf fishing knowledge. The tide was receding. A receding tide is the worst time to fish in the surf. Take a moment to think like a fish that lives and hunts in the surf. The tide recedes exposing the beach to the other great predators of the surf line, the birds. The birds scatter about prodding and poking in the sand looking for small creatures to eat.

They unearth clams, sand crabs, worms, and ghost shrimp, whatever they can find to munch on, now that the newly uncovered seabed is exposed, they find a kill all sorts of critters and leave a mess. They dig small holes with their beaks, scratch up the sand with their feet, and do their best to leave no stone unturned.

As the tide starts to come in, each wave goes a little father up onto the beach, chasing the birds away and dragging the newly loosened sand hither and yon. While the sea birds found lots to eat, they certainly didn’t get everything. Many creatures successfully evaded the birds, but their semi secure burrows, nooks and crannies where they hid are now in disarray and the incoming tide breaks them down even further. Many of these creatures now find themselves being washed away by the swirling whitewater of the surf.

The now free creatures are now fair game for the sea-bound predators, the surf fish. The surf fish follow the tide in feasting on the buffet the birds uncovered and the incoming surf is now washing free. This is how the surf fish make their living.

OK, you should have learned two very important principles so far. First, is that surf fish are looking for natural food as they hunt the surf. A piece of cut squid, a deep water denizen, is out of place in the surf line, and while a particularly dumb fish night snap at it because it looks interesting, or a fish frenzied by the spawn might eat it in his spawning stupor, the average, intelligent (since it’s lived this long) surf predator will view it with some suspicion.

When you go to a surf beach, look for local, natural bait. Dig around in the sand at the surf line looking for small shellfish, clams, sand crabs or worms. The best time to do this is at low tide because you’ll have the most amount of undersea surface exposed. You’ll probably chase the birds away as you poke and prod in the sand. In Southern California, the most common beach critter is the sand crab.

These pea-sized shellfish are rather easy to catch with a special rake that allows you to sieve them through a screen that passes the sand but not the crabs. You can also catch them with a bucket and some water, just like you would be panning for gold.

You’ll do so much better using local natural bait than anything else. I know a well off retired man who surf fishes and still hasn’t figured out this fact. He sends off to Maine to buy special worms that cost .50 each and has them Fed Ex’ed in to surf fish with and can’t understand why the kids with their home made sand crab rake out fish him. If you’d rather buy bait, find a local bait shop and ask them what works best and what they have for sale. They often do have local baits, usually live to sell to serious surf fishermen.

The second principle is to fish the incoming tide. The surf fish wait for the tide to come in. They know when it comes in and are lined up waiting for it to come in. Experience and a keen nose have taught them that the time to eat is the incoming tide. The absolute best time to surf fish is from halfway between two hours before high tide until the high tide.

This is the only time I fish – those two hours. It comes around twice a day so you should be able to work that into your schedule. While you’re at the bait and tackle store ask them for a tide table. They’re usually free, and if not there are tide calculators on the Internet that will allow you to calculate the tides on any day anywhere in the world.

Here’s a surf fishing secret that I’ll bet you never thought of, but given my stories and explanations above, I’ll bet sounds logical to you. How far out do you think you have to cast to catch fish in the surf? Well, I’m sure you’ve seen guys with 14 foot long rods that they wade into the water waist deep and hurl several hundred yards away from the beach – and I’m sure that there are some kinds of fish that are caught that way, like striped bass along the East Coast.

If you’re targeting surf fish, not deep water species, though, the correct answer is, not very far. I catch the vast majority of my surf fish in ankle deep water – certainly shallower than knee deep. Sometimes along the Pacific coast beaches, I see fish feeding literally with their backs out of the water!

I like to cast just in front of the braking wave – into the white water. This is the home of the surf fish. They’re in close. I retrieve slowly dragging my bait up the beach slope, and if I get a hit, more often than not, it’s in very shallow water, like between ankle and knee deep. Surprised? I was when I first started leaning about surf fish. It’s now my “market’ where I stop by to pick up some fresh fish any time I’m in the mood.

So there’s my secrets: 1) fish with local bait you can collect from the beach yourself at low tide, 2) fish the last two hours of the incoming tide, and 3) fish shallow.

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Join me on a little outing where I catch bass in a most unconventional way. I call it ‘Sweeping’ and in this episode of ‘Another Walk with Mike’ you’ll discover how exciting this method can be. I came up with the technique after having bass hit my buzz bait just as I was pulling it out of the water. Finally, after one such strike I pushed my pole back in the water and Bam! A method was born. Similiar to doodlesocking or jigger pole fishing, sweeping is best done from a kayak. Watch my video and see for yourself. It is as exciting as it can be. Also, enjoy my other wildlife walks and nature tour videos.