Three surf fishermen were assembling their gear in the parking lot. I climbed the stairs to the viewing platform overlooking the ocean. It was a beautiful, clear evening with gentle waves on a rising tide.
Because a barred surfperch's diet is 90% sand crabs, surf fishermen use sand crabs as bait. Commercial bait fisheries keep sand crabs that are in the soft-shelled stage, which occurs after a crab molts its old shell and before its new shell hardens.
see surfperch.
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Surfperch - any member of the family Embiotocidae, a large family of spiny-finned, carnivorous fishes of the perch order. Also known as seaperches and surf fish, most surfperches are found off sandy shores of the...
The absence of weight increases the fight of the fish. A conventional bottom rig with sinker and one or more drops with single hooks is most common for bank and surf fishing or for fishing from an anchored boat.
 See also: Surfperch, Bull, Perch, Burro
  
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