I've been fortunate enough to surf fish, & only on the Outer Banks of N. Carolina, ever, a not nearly enough times, in my short life. Love fishing for, catching & eating trout and they are never better than caught and cooked in my huge, old, two-handed skillet, right behind the dunes.....caught just after daylight, keep on catching and cooking & eating 'em for every meal for two days....day & night. Magical.
AND my most unusual time was in the mid '70's in Buxton, NC, two days before the hurricane hit picking them up in the surf and pilling them into 5 gal. buckets. Beaching themselves to escape schools of this other friend. Like GOD sending them in to feed me.
Grateful