Haha. Let me chime is on this. This is a great topic... So, I have two real board bags. One is a 9'6" longboard bag, the other is a multi board shortboard bag 6'6" that Josh Kerr gave me a handful of years ago. 

So, if it's a hurricane swell or it's good out and I am taking my 5'7" fish, 5'9" disco or one of my dozen potato chips, it goes under the arm...

In most cases, I ALWAYS use a board bag with the LB. And that is just because I have a 9'2" HPLB, that isn't too heavy, and a 9'3" traditional log, that is heavy as fuck and very wide. Both LB's go in the back for the walk from the lot up the trail. That is because I am 46, and it's a pain in the dick lugging logs around.

And on a normal day, where the surf appears to be good, I will throw my 6'3" shortboard hybrid, along with a second potato chip in the bag, just in case, and I use that. I also stow my keys, phone and all that shit in the board bag....

So yeah, 90% of the time, I am "board bag guy".... In CA, I never once used one, but I also didn't own a longboard and never rode anything over 6'1" most of the time. My stepup board was a 6'3" and then I have a 7'6" mini gun.

It wasn't until I moved back east and started longboarding a lot that I started the bag thing. And then, I was like damn, this is so much easier to carry even with a shortboard...

Maybe I am old. Never had anyone ask me about it. Maybe the other local dudes are like "hey, look at that sissy Zach and his board bag".... But hey, it gets me to and from the beach faster and I don't have to lug around giant logs....

That's just me. 

HAHA Good topic, to each their own I suppose, I am mostly with @UnfUrled on this one, I don't use a board bag around my hood, I just slide the boards into the back of the Trailblazer with the seats down, and go. The seats stay down, it's an old sandy 2007 with 240k+ miles, great surf mobile still though. I got racks too and occassionally use them if needed, like when I paddled the SUP on a flat day this Summer, things massive, so it can't go inside, but other than that, it's usually in the vehicle with me. When I do use the racks for the LB I don't bag it either. I use my bags for flying mostly. Maybe if I had a long road trip, that's another reason, but aside from that, no bag. We also have easy setups where I can park and have a very short walk to the water. Sometimes I do walk far with it, but doesn't bother me much unless it's super windy out. I'm out there every day so I guess I'm just use to it. If I had long walks and it was easier to bag it, I might consider it, just don't have that here I guess. Lots of folks are doing it though. I crack up at all of my friends and their habits, they probably do the same with me lol

Yeah, now I feel like I have to make more excuses for myself and my poor bag behavior. 🤣 

So, on this island, there are only 5 public beaches. None of the parking is right on the water. The shortest "trail" is about 1/4 mile and there are a couple of others that are very far. When I am down in Florida, I typically can park right on the water, so I just grab the board and go.... 

Also, a lot of time I am at the beach surfing, it is with family, so it's common for me to have to take two trips, or if I do one, It's me dragging a wagon filled with chairs, bocce balls, boogie boards. A yeti backpack cooler on my back and then also carrying a board. So again, having it in a bag makes it easy. 

But l like I said, I lived in CA for 10 years and surfed every single day, most days twice. I lived two blocks from the beach, so I would walk to the end of my street and hit the beach break or drive down to the reefs on sunset cliffs, where a lot of the trails and walks are down Cliffs. Not to blow up spots, but the "short" way to get to South Garbage, is down a bunch of cliffs, and at the bottom, there is a fucking rope that you have to use to scale down the final 10 feet. No problem with a 5'11" potato chip.... 

So, I guess when I always shortboarded, it wasn't an issue. I would throw a sock on when I had a jeep so it didn't bang around while it's hanging out the window, but otherwise, never used a bag....

So, Hilton Head Island is a weird place. If you circle the entire island, you will never see the ocean. It's all protected by trees. You can't cut down trees here. Ever. No neon signs. Everything sandblasted. No street lights after 10 pm. So it's weird. When you hit the toll road, you cross over broad creek and you can see the ocean and what not, but generally, no matter what, you have a walk ahead of you....

And the first couple of years I lived here, I would still almost always shortboard, or ride the fish, so I would never bag it....

But now, I have been dissapointed so many times showing up to what was supposed to be good, then thinking "damn I wish I had more foam" or whatever, I almost always bring two boards with me, and the walks are legit, so it's not productive to waste 10 minutes walking back and forth for boards, especially with work and kids, most of my sessions are power session from 1-1.5 hours, then it's back to reality and cutting the grass or whatever the fuck...

So I will tell you this, unless you can pull up right to your spot, and park right there, you should do yourself a favor and give the bag a shot.... As one gets older, it's all about efficiency, rather than stubbornness, so now I longboard, and use bags and shit and do whatever makes me get in the water faster and have the most energy possible. 

I am telling you my log is so fucking heavy and wide, it's awkward to walk with it more than 30 yards. Like if I drift way down the beach, half the time I flip the monster upside down and rest it on my head with a hand on each rail, like an African woman getting water from a river. So with that particular board, shit, I am bagging it no matter how far the walk. It's thick and awkward to handle.... 

I’m a board bag for each ride guy. I just throw it in the truck bed and if it shifts around in there going over rocks or whatever the boards kind of protected. Plus when traveling I use the boards in day bags as built in padding in the travel bag

I haven't used a board bag since the last time I flew with boards.  I used to when I had a pick up truck.  Now I'm old and soft with a minivan....the boards have it pretty nice in the back.