hey sid fishious, I went to california san diego for 2 weeks, we were fishing the whole time in my dads buddys boat, we caught yellowtail, I used my med sal/steel rod with live sardines throwing them under floating debrie and those thing fight hard I thought, used cut plug sardines and nailed the barracuda, they couldnt resist it, everything fought good there mackeral, bonita, 30lb tuna, but my hardest fish was a 8 ft mako shark, caught numurous blues but those makos are wild and unpredictable. tight lines Ben