San Simeon State Beach, This is a good time of year to fish that beach for Hali's. I have floattubed that calm area between the pier and the rocks...I'm Bryan I live about 30 min. from San Simeon. Lately I have been surf fishing south of there near Morro Bay for Barbed perch. Carolina rigging should do it using grubs, and I would get your self some swimbaits/jigheads to use along that beach. There is a small store near the San Simeon Pier that has a VERY small amount of tackle and has bait in the freezer. If you are needing tackle and some other good advise, you should stop by the "Tacklewarehouse.com" store just off the 101 freeway in San Luis Obispo. They are also on this website "shop online". Its a small store, but it has Top quality gear an tackle and the owners are more than willing to share great advise on fishing in the area.

Hope it helps....

Bryan