Slide baiting a beach or the rocks - Where do you cast?

[chokpa]

I've recently gotten into slide baiting and been doing some research.

Obviously when you fish a beach youre usually fishing structure in the form of gutters, holes etc. However from what I can tell, when you are slide baiting the only goal is to chuck it as far as you can past the breakers. Is this correct?

I was led the believe that casting it past the breakers into a patch of open sand is unproductive as its structureless. 

Or am I meant to be looking for specific structure that is suitable for slide baiting?

Cheers!

[Green Hornet]

As you say, unless structure is well out from the beach, there's not much point casting out beyond the fish and their food zone.

From the beach, think more of slide baiting as a means to get large, live or dead baits that are too big to cast by conventional tackle into the usual, closer gutters and holes and hold them in position.

Personally, the only time I'd consider slide baiting from the sand is to fish legal size tailor for jew, where it's too rough or difficult to "swim" a bait out.