those crazy surfers

http://www.boardfishing.com/index.html

Very cool!
I know the eskimo's were one of first to fish off kayaks, but didn't modern SOT kayak fishing get it's start from surf board fishing?

BTW, did you notice the familiar use of milk crates and all of the hot babes in the photos?
Hmmm.... hot babes in bikinis.... yup.... that's what's missing from our sport

That's funny, I just posted that link yesterday on the "Fish Sniffer" forum after someone thought he just invented the idea.  I'm guessing that that link is making its way around the fishing forums now.  I wonder if I've put some new stress on their little webserver.

I got that link from the fishsniffer!

I'm kayakkid on the sniffer board, but I don't post very often anymore. Girlfriend kills the fishing time i used to have.

-Brian

There's a big contingent of longboard fishermen in Santa Cruz, and I've seen them pullin in some huge halibut from the WestCliff and Pleasure Point areas.

I was fishing cowells shallow halli hole and there two guys surfboard fishing and one guy got a 9 or 10 lbers and the flattie was turning the guy in circles, it was hilarious.  I never knew they were that popular until lately.

-Brian

Hawaiians been board fishing for 1000 years.  When I was a kid (along time ago) growing up on Kaneohe Bay I remember these guys who had tanker longboards which they modified by adding a motor mount in a cut-out in the stern.  They'd mount a tiny 1.5 hp Neptune or Mighty Mite outboard on them to get to the offshore growns.  These board would easily make 5 knots.  I'm on Maui now but friends back on Oahu are saying there is a reneisance of these fishing surfboards now with new ones being made, and getting popular on the Waianae coast where waters are usually very calm, and people very poor many not able to afford a "real" boat.