You did good with bait, then? Dang, and Go Figure. I also was told not to bother with bait, so I did the jig thing and didn't have much success -- Garbage Pile, Waadah, and the jetty. Toward the end of our trip, I threw a leftover sardine on a hook, and whammo, right away caught a Ling (out of season still so it went free). Unfortunately we had already thrown away the rest of the bait, because "that doesn't work for bottomfish out here."