{Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: Surf fishing -- Floating line = idiot?

For me if I am fishing for blues, stripers, or even false albacore I like the intermediate (1.5-2.5 ips) lines the best. However, I fished a teeny 350 from Sandy Hook, NJ a couple of summers ago and did great on flounder plus I seem to be able to cast that line great. It always seems to me that when the surf fishing is the best there is an onshore wind right in your face out of the east mostly (warm, clear water). In those cases I have an easier time slinging a sinking line of some sort out into the froth. Certainly, a floater would work in some situations too. Just my 2 cents.

On Wednesday, March 5, 2014 3:25:51 PM UTC-5, TurbineBlade wrote:

Hey -- I'm planning to do more fishing on the beach this year and will be in OBX in few months (and also MD Eastern Shore).  I've done a little surf fishing in DE with a full-sink line, and I didn't catch anything other than horseshoe crabs -- but I got an understanding of how to use the basket, etc.  The full sink was honestly dragging bottom too much to be effective....at least where I was standing.  

One thing I kept thinking was that fishing near the shore (I guess between the "wash" and first sand bar -- I'm too scared of sharks to try to get to the deeper cuts...sue me, I never claimed I was rational) might be a place to use a floating line?  A lot of folks talk about using the int. line instead, but doesn't the wave action push just as much a few inches below the surface as it does on the surface?  It seems like you could mend the floater and work a "swing" with the incoming waves better than you could with a sinking line.  

I also understand that the intensity of the waves and/or depth you're fishing makes a difference....I'm mostly thinking OBX and Assateague.  

In other words, is it worth my time to use the floater, or is that one to leave home?  

Gene

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