Guidelines For The Best Time To Go Surf Fishing

What is the best time of the year?

Since I am not considering a particular place, as a rule of thumb I would say, in spring and autumn. Now that does not work if you winter or summer that the surf fishing is bad fish. It most likely simply not stand. That being said, it does not mean that the fishing is excellent in spring and autumn. What it means is that given the same set of circumstances, the fishing will probably be better in the spring and fall. Surf fishing depending on your location can be good year round. If you know what you're doing, it's not hard to catch fish in the surf year round.

What is the best time of the day?

This question is easier to answer. In the early morning hours before sunrise until 9 or 10 clock in the evening an hour or two before dusk. This follows the nocturnal feeding habits of the fish. During the summer, when a lot of the beaches are occupied by sunbathers, dusk might be your best bet after they left the beach. In some areas the rule is no fishing go swimming in the areas of time lifeguard on duty until the time they go out.

What is the best time Tide?

It is no secret that the tides affect surf fishing. Moving water at the surf line is good for fishing. High water is best because it is easier to cast out and reach the deeper water. The window of opportunity is for two hours before high tide and two hours. Slack tide between the ebb and flow is not productive for surf fishing accurate. Low tide in most areas is usually only good for scouting the beach for ideal fishing spots.

What are the best moon phases?

The moon not only plays a role in the tides, it also affects the fishing. Let me explain. The moon produces the most extreme tide changes, referred to as spring tides, during the new moon and full moon. The water moves faster when switching from high tide to low tide and the total change in depth is the greatest. This is the best time to fish the surf. Also, common belief that the full moon the fish feed almost the entire night.

What are the best weather conditions?

The weather is a little more difficult to address because of all the different types of weather factors. An onshore breeze if it is not too strong is a plus. Cold fronts are negative factors. Strong wind and surf is also bad. Strong winds make it difficult to fish and the water clarity is very poor. Low pressure is better than high pressure during a spring tide. If the weather conditions were for the last 24 hours the poor fish will not improve until the fish had a chance to acclimate. Sometimes it may be a day or two, depending on how much was the weather.

Now, after considering all the best times for surf fishing, it's easy to understand how these situations can work together when they occur at the same time. If you are planning to go surf fishing try to take advantage of the time, when several of these conditions overlap each other.

Seven Quick Steps to get started surf fishing right

If you have never fished before you surf written for this product. My goal is to get you so you start with a very simple, easy to follow method available, your first fish in the surf. That's all I want you to be able to do. Just catch a fish, any fish. I do not care if you've never caught a fish in your life. I want to see how exciting and easy it is to do. Then I guarantee you'll be hooked and I will have achieved my goal. Once you catch your first fish of the trust that I want, that you can get. At this point you have the incentive to learn everything about this sport and enjoy many successful hours at the surf line.

Surf fishing is a neglected sport. You do not hear much about it. The ironic thing is that it is probably the easiest to do and the most exciting. How strange is that?

Okay let's get started us.

Get A Surf Rod and Reel Combo

I want you to go to Walmart or one of the big sporting good chains. You have to go to one of them within range of the coastline otherwise they will not wear surf gear. Your budget for a surf rod and reel combo is under $ 69. You can probably find something for around $ 49. (A combo is a combination Rod & Reel)

Pick out any spinning surf rod and reel combo that strikes your fancy. Surf rods are heavier and longer than regular salt water rods. Get something at least 10 'but not longer than 12' If you are the Daiwa combo or the Shakespeare combo that's great find. Otherwise do almost any surf combo. Remember, this is a beginner's introduction. Once you get into it you'll probably want to get more professional equipment.

Get the minimum required Tackle

This will go on for a very short, simple list.

300 yds. of mono filament line 20 GBP Test (if your combo did not come spooled with line)
2 or maybe 3 Pyramid sinkers 3 ounce weight
1 pkg. 2/0 circle hooks (Look at the ready leaders with hooks, so that you can know how to see their facility)
1 pkg. # 2 of Snap Swivel

Get Set Up Your Equipment

Okay, now spool the line on your reel is not, and wrap it on too loosely. Wrap. Their line through a piece of Styrofoam or something that put a little drag on it as fills your role We do not go with a shock leader at this stage deal. You probably will not be that hard casting anyway. If you do not know what is not to worry about a shock leader. You will find, if you know or just look you need. This is too much to get at this stage.

With the hook and sinker you go one of two ways. Either one will do the job at this point.

Method # 1

Make a short 12 "leader for the hook and tie it on your line about 18" from the end of the line (Remember you saw hooks with leaders at the tackle store). Tie a snap swivel at the end of the line and attach the pyramid sinker it ..

Method # 2

Attach a # 2 snap swivel to a pyramid board and slide on your line so that it can slide freely. Connect the other # 2 snap swivel to the end of the line and attach a leader to it with a 2/0 hook on it.

That's it your surf rig is ready to go.

Learn To Cast

Choose an appropriate location like a park or ball field where there will be no people around. You can tape the hook for safety so that you do not have to pull it off. Now I want you to practice casting until you can cast with a basic amount of control for direction and distance. That's not a bad idea, even if you have some experience. Practice until you are 100 'to 200' cast with a reasonable amount of predictability. If you can do better, that's great. If you throw a lot more you try will have to learn and use a shock leader.

Why You Need To Know About Tides

I have to give you a quick lesson on tides and surf fishing. Find the tide for your location. I'll give you three options. Find them on the internet to look after them in the local coastal newspaper or ask at the local bait and tackle shop.

Find out if you can go to the beach at low tide. Visit the beach and look for variations in the ground. Note spots for pockets and changes in the formation of the bottom, basically where you can cast into deeper water or past a sandbar. If so you better recognize a rip through a sandbar. This will be your target spots to fish.

Choose the right time to surf fish

Okay, now you know where you are to fish and the water will go targeting. Go back to the flood of the charts. Find a time that occurs in the flood in the early daylight hours or around early dusk. It does not matter what you pick. You are about a two-hour window before and after the flood, the fish have four hours fishing time. Now you know when to go fishing.

Get Some Bait

Now it's time to start fishing. Go to the local bait shop. Buy a dozen 3 "- 4" shrimp. (Get a fishing license if you need to a.) Head for the surf and get your gear out. Hook one of the shrimp through the tail about an inch from the end. Cast in the space provided to get in a comfortable chair and hold. If something is not in 20 to 30 minutes in one of the other areas that you scouted at low tide poured happen.

From the information I have given you, at this level of skills you have the best opportunity of landing something very exciting. There is a good chance that you use all your bait catching fish. Any size, any kind just catch something so you can see how it is. Plan to release everything you catch now. You can get into keeping some at another time.

It's not foolproof, but it is very effective. There is a strong likely hood you catch something out for the first time. Not about the possibility that the fish do not care out there. They are there, just take my word for it.

As the weather and moon really affect fishing

Let's start with the barometer. The barometer is a very effective tool for measuring the feeding behavior of fish. The barometer is an instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure. Do not worry, I'll simplify it for you and cut through all the scientific jargon so we can get to what's really important to catching fish. The measure of barometric atmospheric pressure can then be used to predict the weather, and especially for our purposes, are the fish feeding behavior. Have not we all wondered why fish were so easy to catch yesterday, but today you can not even a bite?

You see, when a low pressure front is building, I'm sure you've all heard this term on the weather channel, the barometer is low and dropping and a storm is either present or on the road. If the barometer is high or rising, the weather is fair and dry. Watch the weather on TV, that's what the large capital L or H means on the weather map. L stands for the low pressure and H stands for a high-pressure system.

So what does this mean for me as a fisherman that? Let me explain. The barometer is a very useful tool that will unlock many of the "mysteries" of fishing. They say, "Come on Trevor, is this really true?" The answer is yes, it's true. If the air pressure fluctuates, the impact bubbles in fish. A fish air bladder is what it uses to stabilize itself at different depths of the water. When a fish 'bubble does not feel right it will not want to eat. Do you eat when you feel you have an upset stomach? Now, not even fish.

If the barometer is low or falling, fish will spend most of their time equalizing their air bladder, and the last thing they think about is feeding. If this happens, you will have a difficult time fooling a fish into eating. On the other hand, if the opposite is true, and the barometer is rising, your chances of catching a fish, is far greater, because they feel more for food.

Fish and wild life, what to expect from the weather and can detect when a storm is approaching to a much greater extent than we humans. You have probably noticed that when the weather is nice outside all beings are active and frolicking about. This means that the air pressure is high and stable. On the other hand, if the air pressure is low, you will not see nearly as many animals around and the ones you do will not be frolicking anywhere. Even the cows in your local area are lying down. In times like this it can get pretty quiet at the lake or river. The fish just are not active.

Understanding how fish adapt to changes in their environment an angler better predict a fishes' movement and feeding. Figuring out if a fish is feeding what we in, because that's when you have the best chance to have him interested in the fish. You may know that almost all saltwater fishermen check the tides before. Head out fishing And it is a good strategy because the tides impact fishing. But you have to know what causes the tides to change, do not you? That's right, the moon. And the attraction of the moon, which affects the changing tides is also pushing against some of the world all the time. So the pressure is always there but since water is more easily moved than the ground water upward toward the moon causes the tides raised change. How high the tide rises or how low the low tide may go is largely determined by the position of the moon and the sun.

Knowing and understanding this information is not only important to the saltwater angler though. Freshwater anglers do not deal with tides like saltwater anglers, but the phases of the moon are very important for them as well. What the angler wants on the new moon and full moon periods are to focus on the calendar. The two or three days after these two events will result in more fish activity. It's that simple.

I have my plan and it almost never fails fishing trips to observe these same principles for years. The moon phases are a very real factor in the feeding habits of the fish. I always have more success with the full and new moon periods, than I do at other times of the month, and you can too.

What you as an angler wants to try to do both of these factors have come together at the same time. The perfect weather situation combined with a full or new moon. When this happens, a great day of fishing will, I promise. And if you just pay attention out there fishing when this happens.

Activities Before You Go Out Surf Fishing

The beach at low tide Scout for potential hot spots

Use a tide chart to find out when you can visit the beach at low tide. At low tide, you will be able to see what the bottom is like after the flood in. This gives you a better idea of ??the the spots is that most likely to hold fish. Once you have an idea of ??the bottom formations and learn learn how to surf the read will significantly improve your catch.

Check the tide charts to figure out the best time to fish

Surf fishing at high tide offers the best opportunity for catching fish. If you can fish the surf when high tide occurs at dusk or early morning you will be able to take advantage of the best time to catch the surf line to catch fish.

Check The NOAA weather station for the area you plan to fish

NOAA weather stations are removed to ensure the coastal conditions. They provide a wealth of data useful for surf anglers. The weather plays an important role in the dietary habits of the fish in the surf. Pay particular attention to how the weather has changed in the last 24 hours. Unseasonal weather and cold fronts disrupt feeding habits and food sources. Surf fish need a little time to acclimate and return to normal eating habits. If the weather has not been conducive to good fishing conditions over this last 24 hours not expect the fishing to improve just after changes.

Check the local fishing reports for fishing in the area

Local fishing reports can be very helpful before planning a trip to the surf line for a few hours of fishing. Fishing reports can come from many different sources. Depending on the source, there are several things that you learn.