Hey ED,

Good to hear of some more young guy's out there fishing! I would suggest you try some of the smaller castaic's I have personally cought many fish on the shad's small and big! I have been bass fishing since I was very young too and know it is hard to keep your paitence waiting for one big fish to hit one of the monster swimbaits, the small castaics are real cool because they will catch pretty much anything big or small.

Check these out

http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/descpageSWMCASTAIC-CSB.html

http://calfishing.com/gallery/1

Here is a link to my pic's there is one pic of a monster I cought when I was only about 12 hopefully it can give you some motivation to go out there and catch a monster! Be sure to bring a camera!! And throw them back!

Taylor