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Just depends on that I'm trying to catch
In the Sac River fishing from shore, I use night crawler, blood worms, cut sardines, chicken liver, and crawdads for Stripers. IMO soft shell crawdad and blood worms works best. Also I use Flying C for King Salmon. Shad Darts for Shads
In the ocean around SF/Santa Cruz when I'm surf fishing for Stripers I use SP minnows or i rig up a Carolina rig with sand crabs that you can find in the sand and try to catch Stripers/Perch with them.
For Dungeness Crab/rock crabs I fill the cages with squid, chicken, Sardines, or shad that was caught in Sac river but crabs aren't picky.
Rock fish/Cabezon/Ling Cods I like using squid or whole anchovies. I also use big hammers lures when my buddy used to have a boat. it works well
Halibut I use a 3 way with like live bait that I freshly caught like anchovies or Pacific Mackerel. I like to use Sabiki rig in a size 7 or 8 tipped with shrimp on the hook to catch these bait fishes. Even Better if you have a Cast net. Pacific Mackerel still around Santa Cruz area/pier as of last week.
When the season starts in a few months, I need to buy another pole for Dungeness Crabbing. I broke it last week on the last day for Dungeness Crabbing at Half Moon Bay Jetty trying to reel in 3 crabs. Had my eye on one at Sports Authority but someone bought it. I was waiting for it to hit 40 percent off lol
This man knows. When he said chicken liver I knew.. Repped