Surf?

[mallardslayer77]

Super Spook - You have a point...if you wait around for pristine conditions, you'll barely get to fish. I too have hopped many a wave and still come out with something on the stringer...as long as the water is somewhat "clean". You don't have to wait till it's green-to-the-beach to catch fish. But, I simply won't make the drive down if the water is too dirty. Maybe I'm not as skilled or lucky as others, but I've been skunked too many times fishing in chocolate milk and crawled home with my tail between my legs.

[JGill50]

Super Spook - You have a point...if you wait around for pristine conditions, you'll barely get to fish. I too have hopped many a wave and still come out with something on the stringer...as long as the water is somewhat "clean". You don't have to wait till it's green-to-the-beach to catch fish. But, I simply won't make the drive down if the water is too dirty. Maybe I'm not as skilled or lucky as others, but I've been skunked too many times fishing in chocolate milk and crawled home with my tail between my legs.

not to mention elbow to elbow with 500 other people on the "pristine" days. i hate that also. Also sooooo many times i see a line of waders fishing the second gut (because thats where everyone else is i guess). sometimes they walk right over the fish that are in the gut between the beach and first bar (usually in the morning) they also never do the one leg hop out to the third bar (which is where i alsmost always find the fish in the evening)

[mallardslayer77]

Plus, inevitably, the conditions are usually crap during the weekend and amazing during the week when I can't get down there! UGH

[SUPER SPOOK]

YEP.

[Jerkyourcroaker]

Another camera is available on g-townsurf.com. The surf won't settle out until late Sunday or Monday.

Somebody needs to build a 'water clarity' cam.

[Swells]

It's a little different down here on SPI, where there's hardly any bait in the surf, and just a few runt whiting. I think the ted tide and fish fills from last year year wiped out the bait, hundreds of tons of it. Then we get the tourists on the weekends so you can forget about fishing unless you go more then 10 miles up the beach in a 4WD. So we're kind of in wait mode and it usually gets better into the June-October fish runs.

I agree that about a 1 to 2-foot wave face makes it nice because you can see into the water, and we're looking for bait like jacks, herring, mullet, and so forth. Flat calm means no beach current, hardly any moving bait, and tons of "trout green" fishermen, lol. Actually, our best water is a sandy blue color, which can bring the bait and Spanish macks and tarpon closer into shore. They like faster water, I suspect, but I'm still learning how to read them guts because the beach seems to change every day. Oh well, our seaweed season is about over now, long as the wind stays to the south - we always get seaweed if the wind has any north and east in it. -sammie on spi

[dbarham]

LoL

?????????? spit it out

[Texfish]

The fish have to eat regardless of the water color.