[macojoe]

My buddy lives right near you in Long Beach. But he doesn't fish.

He loves going out on my V20 when he comes N in the summer, he comes back every year.

He works or the TV station in Bollix, he is a master control op.

With that little Bass down there, its hard to say what will work on them??

Other then artificials, we use: sand eels, eels, porgy, scup, squid, mackerel

You can live line the eels, scup, porgy if you can find them. All will work chunking!

Here I like to use braided line, Spiderwire Stealth 65# test, It is equall in size to 16 # test.

In a boat I use 20# test Florocarbon leader of at least 6 feet long.

I am also a big fan of a good hook makes the difference between catching or losing!!
I use anything from 2 to 7/0 Gamakatsu Octopus!

Use the small with sandeels and a egg sinker, or use the 6/0 and a fish finder rig for chunking.

There arew so many things to do, but for what you have, that will get you started.