Originally Posted by
tailingloop
Dudley, we are more often than not fishing in the foam in the swirling water as opposed to the slack water behind it. That is where the most common species of fish are. Or fishing in small rips that simply pull a floating line and even a weighted fly to the surface quickly. That's why very few people use floating lines in the surf here, and then only in select situations. The high stick dead drift method using a weighted fly does have its place in a few situations but it is not the norm. In So Cal we rarely have any fish that will take topwater presentations within range of the beach; there are some stripers in Nor Cal. The most common use for floating lines here in the surf is for sight casting presentations to corbina which are almost up on the sand with their backs exposed as they root for sand crabs.