I'm still trying to figure out what surf fishing is!
Are you fishing off of a surfboard?

Around here "surf fishing" is fishing from the shore, or wearing waders, and fishing while in the surf..

So if you're fishing in a bay from a boat, thats just fishing..If you're in a bay fishing from shore, you're still just plain old fishing.. even if your wading around the flats in shore, in a bay you're still just fishing...wade around the flats with a fly rod...you're fly fishing..

English is a weird language


Not sure about the lingo in other parts of the country.

So, I fish standing in the surf with a fly rod in waders. I'm fly casting into the surf, but its's not a floating fly, or a fly at all really. It's a sinking fly that looks like a sand crab. How do you define that?

English is a weird language..

Like you could be using one of those two handed fly rods... then you're "spey casting"

At least no one has mentioned the "Catching" paradox

Regional lingo.. etc.. I know with my brothers and friends, the type or narrowly defined name/style of fishing is defined by what we are trying to catch..

How do you keep the hat on?