[58thecat]

Originally Posted by Smoky buck

Common options squid, octopus, prawns, anchovies, herring, chunks of salmon, chunks of rockfish, and basically any fish you can chunk up

Any mix of bottom fishing rigs work. I prefer to use rigs that if you hang up your weight in the rocks you can break it off without loosing your hook

Yup.....exactly.....and we would never run out of bait because we usually chunked up a rockfish etc....man fishing the coast was so simple, ample and fun all the time.