10-01-2013, 01:53 AM
Surf fishing and ocean pier fishing ...
Update: My equipment collection continues. Though I have no specific coast or date in mind, I have accumulated weeks of vacation time to go to a coast for fishing and I've added appropriate reels and line and lures to my collection for both surf fishing and ocean pier fishing.
But, I still need to greatly improve my casting by practicing here to make expensive vacations productive. I've made practice weights for that. They're heavy streamlined plastic that barely floats, so it doesn't get caught in seaweed. Maybe I'll practice out on the ice while ice fishing. If you know surfcasting, then please show me how.
I've also been saving large dull band saw blades from work before they go into the trash. They will make excellent hoops to make pier nets to pull up the big fish that can't be lifted on fifty pound test. I'll grind off the dull teeth and polish it smooth and make a net to fit out of braid fishing line. I bought a book on net making. Perhaps I'll make a few. Some can have a small mesh for catching minnows for bait when they swim over a slightly submerged net. I suppose they would make good crab traps, too.
Ideally, I'll ocean fish from my future sailboat. It will also bring me to many remote inland places to fish. The world has two hundred twenty thousand miles of coastline and inland navigable waterways. I haven't bought one yet. I sometimes think of making one of my own design. I'll probably buy a small one and eventually replace it with a larger sailboat. I don't want it to be so large that I can't haul it past a treeline and make it disappear into wilderness. But, I can be resourceful and maybe make lightweight tracks and wheels to winch it across a rough shore.
Anyone going surf or pier fishing?
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Update: My equipment collection continues. Though I have no specific coast or date in mind, I have accumulated weeks of vacation time to go to a coast for fishing and I've added appropriate reels and line and lures to my collection for both surf fishing and ocean pier fishing.
But, I still need to greatly improve my casting by practicing here to make expensive vacations productive. I've made practice weights for that. They're heavy streamlined plastic that barely floats, so it doesn't get caught in seaweed. Maybe I'll practice out on the ice while ice fishing. If you know surfcasting, then please show me how.
I've also been saving large dull band saw blades from work before they go into the trash. They will make excellent hoops to make pier nets to pull up the big fish that can't be lifted on fifty pound test. I'll grind off the dull teeth and polish it smooth and make a net to fit out of braid fishing line. I bought a book on net making. Perhaps I'll make a few. Some can have a small mesh for catching minnows for bait when they swim over a slightly submerged net. I suppose they would make good crab traps, too.
Ideally, I'll ocean fish from my future sailboat. It will also bring me to many remote inland places to fish. The world has two hundred twenty thousand miles of coastline and inland navigable waterways. I haven't bought one yet. I sometimes think of making one of my own design. I'll probably buy a small one and eventually replace it with a larger sailboat. I don't want it to be so large that I can't haul it past a treeline and make it disappear into wilderness. But, I can be resourceful and maybe make lightweight tracks and wheels to winch it across a rough shore.
Anyone going surf or pier fishing?
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