Well went fishing of the New Port Pier, tried shrimp from Santa Monica Seafood, nibbles, sand bugs dug up from the sand ( whatever you call em I dunno) more nibbles, pieces of mackerel gleaned of the other fishermen at the end of the pier more nibbles, did see a med size bat ray, used to see a lot more. sorry to say the only thing I caught was a clump of seaweed and a buzz while checking out the beer bars close to the parking lot. Fish on