The amount of tide change last weekend had everything to do with those rips being the way they were... I ran into the same sort of thing off the end of Dungeness spit on Sunday.

Devine, if you have trouble finding herring or would rather no bother with bait, just use spoons with a little Smelly Jelly on them. I've fished near Pillar Point a bunch of weekends this year, we've done great using Silver Horde coho killers, kingfishers and also coyote spoons. Try to match them sizewise to the bait you see in the area. We ended up just trolling them off the downriggers, no flashers, nothing but the spoons. We even tried trolling a buzzbomb, and jigging it up and down a little while trolling, we caught something like 14 fish that way, too.

Enjoy, and let us know how you do.

-N.