07-16-2017, 05:41 PM | #1 |
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07-17-2017, 08:13 AM | #2 |
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The closest you'll find in this group is those that fish off a paddle board. Pick the right board, and you can easily ride on it as well (I can probably get away with that on mine, but it wouldn't be a comfortable experience...)
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07-17-2017, 08:23 AM | #3 | |
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While on vacation a few years ago I was surf fishing and watching fish boiling a few hundred yards offshore on a reef so I grabbed my longboard and paddled out to the reef and sat up and cast from a seated position. Caught some small trevally and snappers. Kayaks and paddle boards are definitely better fishing platforms but in a pinch a longboard will work. |
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07-17-2017, 09:13 AM | #4 |
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something about having your feet in the water when your bringing thrashing fish up that makes me uncomfortable. But a nice stable paddleboard and you have a solid fishing platform.
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07-17-2017, 09:45 AM | #5 |
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yes, I have fished off my 9' longboard many times. Throw the cork handle in your teeth and paddle out. Throw swim baits about 50 to 100 yards outside the lineup on a flatter day. When visibility is greater, you should be able to see where the sand channels between the rock reef are. Targeting the sand channels when the surge isn't too great has yielded fish far more often than any other technique right outside the surf zone for me. Bounce the lead head off the sand and you will likely have a halibut on your line at some point. Using a surfboard leash as a stringer also works pretty well. Uneasy feeling with feet constantly in the water? Its nothing compared to 20lbs of fish hanging next to your feet. Once you get on a good bite and dont want to stop fishing while having a leash full of dead fish surrounding your foot, you won't even care about the times when your feet are just dangling there by themselves.
Have fun and post up some pictures of all the fish you catch on your board by fishing the depth outside the surf that most anglers don't readily fish. |
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07-17-2017, 10:32 AM | #7 |
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Have seen guys several times fishing long boards at San O when I was there.
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07-17-2017, 01:35 PM | #8 | |
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I see a guy there often who surfs, then will go in and start the coals for his weber....paddle back out with a rod, land a halibut and paddle right back in and cook it up for the family. I think he uses dead dines though... |
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07-17-2017, 06:34 PM | #13 |
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Surf board is old school bottom scratchers dive platform approved. Paddle out to 30' of water in the cover and shoot a couple 200# BSB for dinner wearing no fins and a wool speedo.
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07-17-2017, 08:28 PM | #14 |
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07-18-2017, 08:13 AM | #15 |
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Middle of Malibu during el nino. Didn't think the hammerheads were that far north that year. Found out otherwise.
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07-18-2017, 09:18 AM | #16 |
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I go out of SanO a couple times a week on my waveski. Fish inside the break and get washed off my board occasionally - but the fishing is good.
You can see my waveski and what I use at my blog seabooty99.wordpress.com |
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