Good advice from Stripers Online

Time/Date: 0530 CST, 28-May-11
Location: Northern Saskatchewan

I was browsing the fly fishing forum on Stripers Online the other night and came across a thread titled "I need an introduction to surf fishing with the fly rod."

Reading through the thread, I founds this gem of advice from Mike Oliver (who has over 6200 posts on the forum!):

• Search out Bait.
• Fish structure. That's rocky ground, points, boulder fields, Shallow surf water. Jetties.
• Fish steep sandy beaches. Look for bars and cuts and the rips they create.
• Fish Current. It can never be too strong. Bass are not lazy.
• Fish inlets and esturies and salt water ponds where they exit into the sea.
• Fish to start with at pre dawn to first light until the bite stops. Fish dusk.
• Fish all night when you are happy with your casting.
• Fish hard and with purpose and you will catch.
• Fish neap Tides, Full moon and New Moon spring tides to find what works best in your area.

Trust me you don't need much more than the above to put yourself onto fish. Plus you don't need your hand holding and you found the fish and that is very satisfying.

Brilliant post.

It's a perfect 'what-to-do' primer to get started. My own reading list (and extended reading list) for my Saltwater 101 self-study course is obviously more in-depth, but Mike's post definitely summarizes a billion pages of information on catching striped bass on the fly rod.

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