Caught a dink on my lure
>>2199380Your bass gear will handle anything up to 10 pounds in the salt assuming you have 20+ pound braid or 15+ pound mono
Go to the tackle shop and buy some 1 and 2 ounce pyramid stinkers, #4 aberdeen hooks (buy snelled or Snell your own), some #30 mobo or flouro, and learn to tie dropper loops. Tie the #30 mono to your main line, and have 2-3 full rod lengths. That's your shock leader. Then tie a surgeon's loop to the bitter end and a pair of dropper loops; one 12 inches from the weight and one 12 inches up from that. Use a loop to loop connection to attach your hooks, and bait with your choice of clams, fish bites, sand fleas, blood worms, squid, shrimp, or whatever your local tackle shop says is good for Whiting, croaker, spot, and similar. Buy something called a sand spike, too. Then go to the beach, cast in to "the first trough" (where that sudden drop off where the waves crash to the first sand bar) and drag your bait across the bottom slowly, you'll know when you have a bite.
>>2199403I use a 7 foot a lot of the time, 10 and 12 foot rods only matter when you're having big baits to the second and third trough for 20+ pound fish
Spinning is better for most things but for bombing long casts and chunking big baits a conventional reel is best.
