Help with fishing the surf

[GGF]

My go to plastic in the surf is anything red with a white tail. Gulps are fine, but you will catch a lot of trash. The whiting will eat them one centimeter at a time.

My favorite technique is a top water cast from the second bar down the beach to the back side of where the last waves are breaking on the beach. Work it back to you along the first gut.

I'm always amazed at how many solid trout work that first gut in 1 to 2 feet of water 20 feet off the beach.

[plugger]

Nice job Henry, but I will still be chunkin' tops 90% of the time. 1 fish on top is worth 5 on anything else to me.

I agree, catching fish on topwaters is the pinnacle of fishing excitment. What a rush. But, we were talking general surf fishing information. How about getting a blow up in the dark and not seeing anything.... clack, clack, clack.....WHAM-SPLASH ! I'd rather see it though.

[bountyhunter]

In the surf my number one go to bait is a Corky Devil, followed by a standard Corky. If the water is "trout green" and the sky is clear I like the "Day Glow" or Pearl/Char color. If the water is a little off colored then I go darker. Later in the day or if the Corkies aren't working I'll switch to a Brown Lure's Devil Eye in Rootbeer and if the water is really clear I'll go with a Bass Assassin in Woodpecker.

Note if you get there before day light, take a good light or use your headlights to charge up you "Day Glow" Corky or Devil, it will glow in the dark and kill them before the sun comes up.

[SUPER SPOOK]

yea,what they said!

[shutout]

In May I prefer a 3/4 oz. gold Johnson Sprite spoon. When the water heats up by mid-June I will switch to Plum-Treuse Assassins and in real clear water DOA's

[Swells]

In May I prefer a 3/4 oz. gold Johnson Sprite spoon. When the water heats up by mid-June I will switch to Plum-Treuse Assassins and in real clear water DOA's

Agreed, love the Johnson spoons, and the penny-colored plastic shrimp always work for me too - although them Gulp bait STANK - they catch but they smell, I mean. LOL.

Went out with some "Sweet Cheeks" and got rejected but a guy with some frozen 3-inch baby mullet and 4-inch shad was knocking the Spanish Macks left and right. Some days, it does help to use bait if you want something for the dinner table, match the hatch as they say. -sammie