Fishing in the Dominican

[TOFishingNoob]

Great report! You got some nice fish! Well done. I went to Mexico and got mackerel, jacks, runners and barracuda.

The key to surf fishing is to fish in the incoming tide and to wade out as little as possible and to walk as softly as possible on the beach. Surf fish are very wary of any thing. The more you wade the greater the chance of scaring them, the heavier you walk the more they feel vibrations. Surf fish come up quite close to the beach as they are feeding on sand crabs, clams buried in the sand and other critters. That are not 100% aquatic so they live on the beach but go under with the incoming tide. As well the incoming tide pushes baitfish towards the shore and then their done cause they have the shore and the chance of getting beached or getting eaten by larger fish. The incoming tide also stirs up the water making the fish feel more secure from the sight of predators, and it also stirs up all the little critters that these fish munch on. It is also important to use bait that these fish would be feeding on, use crabs and shellfish or other baits that you catch on the beach cause that is what the fish will be eating, not squid that lives in deeper water. Surf fish are soo wary because they are often very visible to birds seeing them in the shallows, rays that live in the shallows and other predators.