Any of you familiar with the area just north of Santa Monica but south of Malibu where those old corrugated aluminum groins exist? It's a short ways up from Wylie's tackle shop. They're all rusted and jaggedy and covered with barnacles. There's a bit of kelp in the area too. It's an awesome spot. I've caught all 3 species of bass there. Awesome!
But a word of caution to you, here's my story:
I was up there one summer day having a ball & just rippin' lips. It was warm & sunny and the swell was flat. I lined myself up perfectly off the end of one of those groins so I could cast down the length of it and retrieve my swimbait parallel to it. Cool, I'm catchin' fish.
Then all of a sudden a rogue wave comes in and I'm damn near vertical on the face of it. I'm also staring straight down at the groin. I say to myself,"This is gonna suck... 4 years of military skydiving, 500+ jumps including 2 malfunctions and I'm gonna die fishing from an float tube." Just then I slide down the back side of the wave and I think COOL!!!! but then I think I'm gonna get reamed in the trough behind the wave. It didn't happen. I was VERY VERY lucky. I got out and went home very shaken up. I didn't fish that spot for a very long time after that.
The moral of the story is obvious. Don't line yerself up with those groins and ALWAYS have one eye watching the swell. Even on flat days.