Getting larger Sea Bass...
One thing that really helps is simply not bothering to reel in small Sea Bass.
You'll quickly get a feel for what size fish you have on your line. If it doesn't feel heavy enough, don't reel, just let it slack and the fish will shake themselves off. It's a big waste of time reeling up 90 feet simply to get a short sea bass off your line. Make sure you get your doubleheader too, I always see people reeling furiously as soon as they get one fish on instead of making sure they've loaded up all their hooks.
Most times you'll still have some bait after you let the smaller fish shake off your line. (I also use the 3" B-2 Squid Glow teasers, will catch fish with no bait.)
If you've caught a bergall you can use it as a strip bait, or you can even cut up one of your (legal) sea bass (be sure to keep it and count in your limit.) Sea Bass will hit Sea Bass. And you can catch a dozen Sea Bass with one strip bait of Bergall or Sea Bass without losing the bait.
You only reel up when you've got enough weight on for it to be a larger fish. (might be fooled by a doubleheader of medium sized fish at times.)
Also make sure you get your bait down FAST when you're first on a wreck. Sea Bass are stupid, and the larger they are the more agresssive they are (unlike rockfish and a lot of other fish); at a given wreck the large fish are likely to be caught in the first 5 minutes. Make sure your bait is down there first and get it back down quickly in those first 5 minutes. Using decent-sized Kahle or Flounder hooks helps a lot (similar to what Monty uses on boat rigs.) Many people use very small J hooks and have a lot of gut hooked fish that take time to remove. (also likely to kill a short sea bass.) Sea Bass have huge mouths, use larger hooks. Kahle hooks tend to have them hooked in the side of the mouth and are not swallowed. Though I'm a huge circle hook fan in general I don't like them for Sea Bass for some reason.
Trip I was on in May I had 8 3 lb.+ fish, probably 40-50 legal fish overall, didn't keep anything under 14" or so. And I spent about 1/2 the time fooling around just jigging (tends to get larger fish as well, I used an 8 oz. diamond jig and a 6 oz. Yozuri Glow Squid, no bait) but it was slower than bait.
Of course, the biggest key is to not go Sea Bass fishing in July or August; the plague of short fish is really a problem most of the time. I don't bother

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