What's going on guys,
today we're having a tackle talk
about three of the most effective methods for surf fishing.
My first favorite method
light tackle
little spoons and stuff like this
On light line, small reel, small rod on the surf, a lot of fun.
Method two:
ahhhhh!! I just hooked myself!
Method two: bait fishing using hook and sinker
and method 3: plugging.
All right, so I've got boxes for each kinds of these, uh,
each kind of fishing that I was talking about, I've got...
my
light tackle box
with like, little spoons and stuff like that in there.
I love these little spoons.
Um, I've got my bait fishing box,
which, I've got all my sinkers, all my hooks, leader line, pre-tied rigs that I've tied
yeah, lots of different stuff for bait fishing
and then I've got one of my many plugging boxes right here
full of different metal plu-- different plugs, top water
metal dip divers
lots of different kinds of plugs in here
and now I have them in all separate boxes because I consider them as different kinds of fishing
I don't usually bring all three with me to the beach
because if I'm focusing on one kind of fishing
I like to focus on one kind of fishing.
The first method I'm talking about today
is like, light tackle spoons.
So I know Kast master makes a bunch of these kinds of spoons all different sizes
I usually get 1/2 ounce,
quarter ounce, 1 ounce
but that's if I'm targeting little dinner size fish from the first trough
I recommend anyone start with a
1/2 ounce to 1 ounce little spoon like this, now spoons like this catch all sorts of fish
I'm telling you guys, all sorts of fish
Um, when I cast this out
I usually have no idea what I'm gonna hook up with
and that's really cool to me that-that you know, casting out--the mystery of not knowing what you're gonna catch
that's what really draws me to the sport of fishing in general,
um, so I think that these are really, really versatile, they work all over, they work everywhere,
I've caught fish on spoons everywhere I've been,
um, and I really really like them,
and now the trick with using--now the trick with using these little spoons like this
is to make sure you have the correct gear. You're not going to be able to cast this little spoon out
On something like--on something like this
or something big like this.
These are just too big.
You won't be able to get your line out far enough.
What I recommend you guys use for these spoons,
um, these light tackle, is a salt water approved
uh, lighter reel, and I just ordered myself a reel that would be perfect for this.
KastKing.
This is the Kodiak.
This handle is what I really like about it, now, let me show you why.
All right. Look at that.
Perfect. Not too big,
not too small.
This will be a very versatile reel for me, I will be able to use this on the pier
I'll be able to use this on the surf. I'll be able to use on the jetty,
brackish water, fresh water, it's salt water approved, good size,
now the part I like about the kno-- the-the handle
is the knob right here when you order the five thousand sized
Instead of getting like a standard, like--
Instead of getting that little standard knobby-knob like this,
you get a nice
handful with this, look at that,
and this allows for a
a nice grip on your reel so you don't feel like your fingers are gonna slip out if you happen to land a-
if you happen to catch a big fish, um,
it's perfect, and it's not so big that you won't be able to cast something like this out,
so long as you have the right diameter braid
um, you will be fine.
For this kind of fishing, I recommend you spool this up with, like
Probably ten pound braid.
Braid is a really sensitive line. It has no stretch
so you're able to feel every little touch and I think that's important when you have, uh,
light tackle like this so you can really be able to set the hook on them good.
Now I'm going to show you a really quick trick with spooling up braid,
it's gonna save you a little bit of money and I think a lot of people will benefit from this tip,
here it is. You ready?
You don't need to spool this whole spool up with braid.
If you don't have anything, but braid on here, it's gonna start slipping.
It's gonna start slipping, and maybe some of you have had this problem before where like the drag is completely locked
but you pull it and it's still spinning.
Why is that? Because braid can't grip on to this.
What you need to do is put monofilament backing on it.
Think about how big your spool is. Are you really going to be casting 300 yards of braid?
I don't think you can cast 300 yards of braid, and if you can, props to you, man,
but I can't cast 300 pounds of braid!
So what I usually do is I put mono backing on here
and then probably 150 yards of braid
this way you save a bunch of braid,
this way, you save a bunch of braid and your line won't slip.
So I'm going to show you real quick.
Well I'll fill the spool about a quarter of the way
And I've got 20 pound mono backing right now and this--KastKing braid has been working for me pretty well
And they're like ten dollars cheaper than like this the standard braid that I usually get Power Pro spider wire
It's usually ten dollars more expensive
KastKing does the same job and to give you more of it.
So the line that I've been using is this KastKing braided line, made in the USA
Spectra fiber and it comes on this awesome
biodegradable spool
Which I think is a really good effort in helping with water conservation ocean conservation
Because plastic is really ruining our oceans, Erin and I have been talking to you guys about this for a while
Now how we should all be picking up our trash we should be leaving our spots cleaner
than when we first arrived and I think this fits in so perfectly because
at least they're putting effort into
Minimizing waste use the spool one time and then you throw it away and then that plastic lives on earth for a long
time
That doesn't make sense to me. Why create that plastic is bad for the world. Thank you KastKing for making something like this
And I'm using the Uni to uni knot to attach the braid
to my mono
If anyone wants a tutorial if anybody's interested in this tutorial on how to tie a uni to uni knot
Let me know in the comments below. I'll make one the second I hear one person tell me they need help with that and
Then I fill the rest up with braids
Anybody interested in the KastKing braid with a biodegradable spool or the Kodiak 5000
We've got links in the description below. Alright, and it's ready to go
This is gonna be awesome our next method method number two bait fishing
There are so many different rigs that you can tie all with the basic idea
This rig is one of my favorite rigs you guys may have seen us talk about this rig before
It's the same rig in the second skippers surf fishing kit now
We provide you all the things to tie and how to tie this rig
In our senkoskipper kit. It's not a PDF if you want to read it all in the link in the description below
But this rig is a very versatile rig
You don't have to have one hook. You can have two hooks. You're gonna have three hooks if you wanted to have three hooks
With this, it keeps the beat off the ground. Whereas a fish finder rig that hook the the hook is on the ground
It's on the ocean floor since it's off the bottom. I
Get less catfish I get less skate. I get less, you know like the bottom feeding fish
Especially I get a lot of hookups on the top hook
far from the bottom
Anyways, I like to rip this up
Lately, I've been liking to rig this up with the supersalty tentacles. This is the mixed bag that we have
I'm gonna show you this real quick
the mixed bags come with squid chunks made from the body and squid tentacles made from the tentacles of the
Squid and it comes with a bunch of salt with it to keep it preserved
So it comes with a bunch of this
salt but the salt is a good thing it helps keep it preserved and it also is infused with a lot of
Squid scent all that squid juice is in the salt and it keeps it smelling
like fresh squid
Love it. So here are the body parts
Here are the tentacles everyone gets tentacles in the mixed bag
Body body
Body body. Alright, so for this I want to show you guys something. I want you guys to try this yourself
Get the tentacles
Cut off a bit
and
then
You're gonna feed it onto your hook like a worm like this
Now I'm using circle hooks
Because those are safer for fish
Alright look at that
Hook it up like this get the tentacles put it on here now for for bigger hooks
either use a big tentacle or
use a chunk bait like this and
With these bodies, you've got a lot of meat on them and they stay on there forever
There you go
Look at that perfect in combination with like fresh-cut bunker or like blood worms
This is a nice chunk bait to add on or by itself
Look at that
So now when this is sitting when this is in the water this surf, okay waves and current will be pushing it
Back and forth and swishing, doesn't it look like a fish to you
Smells great moves very naturally
Other beats I would use on this
bloodworms
cut bunker
mmm, chunk beat any kind of dead beat
dead fish cut dead fish
Lots of stuff works on on these hooks right here
but yeah for these hooks you can put whatever kind of chunk bait you want on them you cast it out you sit there you
Wait for the tug
I really like this kind of fishing especially if I'm going with family or friends and I don't want to pay full attention to fishing
I can have this out have a bail up have my drag set
So I can really just chill lay back and I don't have to be super focused which brings me to my next method
plugging
This is
Like a candy store for me like this all looks like candy to me. I
Frickin love them one. They're really beautiful. They're really fun
They're really beautiful aren't they? This one was actually made by a subscriber Linnell Thank You Man
I still have not gotten a chance to use it
We're preparing for our trip to Cape Cod soon. And I think that these will work really well NL. Thank you very much
These are metal lip divers
Metal lip divers stay subsurface. They're not on the top, but they're just below it and they'll dive like this
This works really well for lots of different kinds of fish. Especially big predator fish
Rockfish striped bass
Now the thing is these are made of wood and I don't want to fish for this for
For-4 bluefish because it'll ruin my paint
Just a personal preference. I would rather not use such a beautiful lure on a toothy fish like that
For toothy fish I use plastic stuff like this
Or I don't know if it's plastic whatever material this is but it can get beaten up and I don't care
This is a tsunami one of the tsunami talking poppers
Not too expensive
Really fun to use the thing with top water and plugs like this is these are probably to three ounces, you know
Like they're not they're not light things. You would not want to use light tackle to be throwing something like this what I recommend for
Top water plugs like this like save ones like this on the surf is a long rod
10 to 11 feet 10 11 foot rod will be good
with a bit reel
With heavier braid, so I'm thinking like 30 40 pound braid
20 pound braid will work but I'm afraid of cut slicing my finger on that braid and
The cast King braid will work perfectly for this. I highly recommend you use braid when you're casting plugs like this because
You want it to go really far? That's one of the reasons why it's so big and heavy
You want it to go really far and cover a lot of water when you're working these bass on the top?
You want to cover as much of that water column as possible
And this is making a bunch of noise at the surface of the water splashing around at boom
all of a sudden something will come out of the water and eat it and it's so exciting to see it because it's boom and
Then it's a train on you and it's a train on the end of your rod. It's awesome
You're gonna see more of that in the future because we're going to cape cod soon
So when you fish when you fish something like this there's a lot of different ways to fish it
This will fish way different than this
Look at how its shaped this will float and pop water from the mouth
This one more more so glides through the water
So but for something like this a popper
What you're going to want to do is cast it way out there and start popping bringing it back
Okay, there's many different ways many different speeds. You can bring it back. That's something that you need to work on yourself
It depends on what the fish want. Sometimes you cast it out. Pop pop pop wait
Pop pop pop wait pop pop pop. Sometimes they want fast pop
Pop pop up up up, you know, it's there's different retrieval ways and you got to experiment with different ways
So final tips for these get yourself the correct rod
Okay, ten eleven foot
Ten eleven foot rod with the right reel and the right braid throw these when you see fish
Busting on the surface. You see birds diving like crazy throw these when you see fish coming out of the water
You see fish chasing out a little bait fish
Throw one of these it'll really attract it with all that sound with all that splashing. It'll come up and smack it hard
Have fun. Thank you everyone for listening to me ramble on about surf fishing
I really hope that I could help anyone out there who needs help because I remember a time where I
Didn't know anything. I didn't know much about fishing and
It was kind of hard for me to find out the information
We want to be the source of your help. Anybody who needs help. Please reach out to us
We're willing to help if you guys have any more questions and you need more answers
we've got a detailed guide as well as the kit that comes with all the stuff to tie the the bait fishing rig I was
talking about
This is something that I wrote personally myself
to answer a lot of questions that we've been getting and
It's just chuck full of information how to tie the rigs it comes with the with the gear to tie the rigs as well
if you're going to the beach for a week or to
Pick yourself up some good stuff
Have a good time good luck out there guys
I know you can do it if you get to the beach and you get skunked the first day do not get discouraged
That happens to me on the rag. I'm not even kidding
We're filming our show and the first day we get there almost every time we get skunked. We'll we only catch one little fish
It's about experimenting and learning. Remember guys don't get discouraged
remember how the ocean makes you feel and
Try and remember that when you're there and not get too frustrated with yourself if you cannot catch fish
See you guys