Pier fishing with my grandson

Hey who's got some tips for me getting my six year old on some fish?  We are looking for a peninsula pier.  Oyster point?  Pacifica pier?

I would try the Pacifica Pier on a weekday if you can. Good chance at jigging up jack smelt or even mackerel with a sabiki.

Good call about a 3oz weight should work..

What I did with kids off the piers, is a shortened sabiki under a bobber and a half ounce weight on the bottom of the sabiki, but a cast master works too. Toss it out and it will drift with the tide, and can sit there like at a pond until bit. Have another rod that the kid can vertical jig with the other half of the sabiki.

Keeping their attention is key if fishing is slow, so having two rods going is good. Let them jig, and when they look like they are getting burned out or bored with it, have them reel in and do a "bait check" to see if the bobber rig "got tangled" and toss it back out.  You get the idea

What I did with kids off the piers, is a shortened sabiki under a bobber and a half ounce weight on the bottom of the sabiki, but a cast master works too. Toss it out and it will drift with the tide, and can sit there like at a pond until bit. Have another rod that the kid can vertical jig with the other half of the sabiki.

Keeping their attention is key if fishing is slow, so having two rods going is good. Let them jig, and when they look like they are getting burned out or bored with it, have them reel in and do a "bait check" to see if the bobber rig "got tangled" and toss it back out.  You get the idea

Thanks for the tip. 

He had a great time at Pacifica pier a couple of weeks back.

He's 6 and I had two rods going one with the Sabiki one with a swim bait to jig.  It kept him busy. 

At one point we were sitting on the bench and he asked 'what do we do now?' 

'We wait'

He got it, it's about patience, I'm proud of that, he didn't mention his iPad 

I checked on the Sabiki rod and it had some weight on it...reeled it up to make sure it wasn't snagged on a piling...dungy..let it hang

'Hey Bud I need a hand over here take the rod!'

'Grandpa, feels like a rock is on here'

'Keep reeling!'

He was stoked!!

Of course she went back in *-out of season and even so a female (never keep em)*

Priceless.