Hard structure vs soft structure?

[lostatsea]

I see a lot of talk about this on the site forums. Hard structure is bridges and inlets, but what do you surf guys consider soft structure, and how do you fish it?

[Monty]

I (and I don't really know what I'm talking about), think of soft structure as bars, cuts in bars, holes (deeper water), rips, that kind of stuff that tends to change because of sand movement. Its my favorite type of fishing, walking a beach looking for rips/holes/cuts, coves and fishing them. My most memorable catches are fish caught this way.Finding water where the structure speeds up the current, causes rips, out flows from a open beach. Points on open beaches can have some real nice structure. Some of the most fun I have had fishing was in the late fall, day, overcast, rainy, some wind, lower half of tide so all kinds of structure can be seen. Working for fish and finding them.

[finchaser]

hard = rocks, jetties,bridges, sea walls and wrecks

soft= , mussel and clam beds, sand bars troughs along the beach that constantly move and change

[surfstix1963]

What they said ^^^