My buddy and I are somewhat experienced bay fisherman and have our fair share of batrays which we have gotten and little tired of. After researching the ways of surf fishing and reading many of your posts, we decided to give the SD surf a try friday night. We fished from 7-11 in what we thought were good conditions with 2-3 foot waves and little seaweed. We ended up getting 5 batrays and only one that was decent. Although we didn’t get any of the sharks we were targeting, we found that landing fish in the surf is pretty fun.
If we were casting far enough to catch the batrays were we in the casting range for soupfins and sevengills?
The highlight of the night was when my friends rod bent in half and the reel screamed for about 10 seconds spitting out line FAST. Although we are surf fishing rookies, me and my friend think that this fish could have been a soupfin because of the speed it took off with and how it spit the circle hook so fast because bat rays have never done that to us before.. but we would like to hear your guy's opinion on what it could have been! We took a half ass pic of the mackerel after the run ill post it below or at least try because im struggling with the first time uploading pics ( its giving me an error message
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Anyways me and my friend are looking forward to joining the shark fishing community and would like to fish with some of the SD guys on here, any tips or advice would be greatly appreciated. Good luck and tight lines!
