Dear Board,

Interesting reading so far, please keep it up.

If I can fall back to fishing for a while I've recently renewed an interest in saltwater surf fishing. Not blitz fishing where anyone can catch a fish if they can get their line in the water but more of a just "chuck it out and see what bites" type of fishing.

It's definitely not fly fishing, but if you have a good ear and are swift of foot you could walk the beach a bit fly casting and waiting for the drag clicker to click on that old Penn Squidder?

That is kind of what I am getting at, I mean have we really progressed?

We have so many modern trinkets to fiddle with that I sometime wonder if we know why we bother at all?

I grew up hard by a large city. When I was a kid once we were 50 miles from the beach I wanted the windows in the car open so I could catch the first whiff of the ocean. It mostly stunk of wet sand and dead clams and stuff but it meant we were getting close.

Nowadays though we live closer it seems we are further away?


Regards,
Tim Murphy