I agree with everything swimbait said on the big bait subject. But I do have one idea about why the smaller plastics are more effective around Cali. The fact that we really don't have any aquatic snakes has a big effect on it. You can watch Bill Dance throw a ten inch worm in Tennessee (where they have forage like that) and catch alot of fish, but on the west coast, things are different. Just more thought food.

Jake