Yes, me too, I started watching PK a few years ago and have been Hooked!

Hi Rainier Poultry, not sure if you use that name because that is where you live, I do live in Rainier and I am wanting to try some surf fishing some day soon. Good luck fishing.

In case you guys still aren't having luck just remember the basics. Go an hour or two before and after high tide and move up and down the beach if you aren't gettin any bites to find where they're at. My best luck has always been with gulp camos.

He was using various baits from sandworm to fish bites, plus some 2" Gulp shrimp

What part of the clam is the "neck" ?

I use an old 8 1/2 foot rod I found in my grandpas garage with a old 3000 size reel. Really the only thing that’s important is that you have a soft tip and a good amount of backbone. Also braided line to help with sensitivity. A 6000 size reel is gonna give you a sore arm after a hour or so. Almost any rod meant for salmon fishing will work great.

@@grant0410 interesting! So I’ll definitely look for a smaller reel. What is your rod strength?

The Okuma 9'6" will toss a 2 oz weight quite far. It's the rod I use besides my Tourney Trail. A 6000 reel is a little too big, for me. I use a Shimano 4000 size reel which works fine spooled with 20# braid. You can even use a 3000. And I don't use over a 2 oz weight. The Okuma 9'6" salmon rod paired with a size 3000/4000 Shimano Sedona is one of the best setup for surf fishing for redtails.

@@oregonlife Thank you so much for the info!! It really cleared up a lot of my concerns and gave me much more confidence in buying the right setup! But also if you have the time I have one more inquiry… I’ve watched all of your videos about the different kind of lures and setups you use to fish for surf perch, (and Berkeley Sandworm on the Hi-Lo rig seems to be the hands-down winner lol) and with these lures require the typical repetitive action of casting it out and reeling it in, while carefully working the bait… So my question is: is there any baits/lures I can use for a setup where I can just cast it, let it sit, and set my rod down in a holder and simply just wait for a bite? Ive heard some refer to this method as like the “Bait and Wait” type of fishing. But if there is a way to do this, what’s the baits and is the setup different? Thanks!

You don't, you wrap the spider thread over and over, I do it about 10 times, and then just snap off. it won't come undone.

2 hours is fine. Most of the time, I whack them and toss them in the cooler to be filleted at home. I recommend ice if you do that.

Never. Haven't seen anyone do that in Oregon before.

According to ODFW, the Coos river system has the majority. Fish are in the Coquille and the Umpqua/Smith system. About 3 decades ago I was fishing in Tenmile Lake near Florence, and there were a number of boats anchored in an area of the lake fishing for stripers; the ad for the lake does not mention them, but Tenmile feeds into the ocean. Good luck.

Yea, too small. And I think you can't keep salmon from the surf in Oregon. I was using a barbed hook too, where barbless hook is required for ocean salmon.

@@oregonlife You can keep salmon from the surf if they are legal size and you have a tag. In the fall, some people in boats will work just out of the surf zone as the fish pool up to enter the bays.

It feeds the Al Gore just the same. Pk deserves to get something for all of his hard work.

See ya moocher