In the early morn cast some piggies out into the 2nd gut in the surf for specks if these winds dont trash up the grass to bad. Late evenings try throwing some piggies in the ship channel around the charlie's pasture area. You may even chunk some plastics there if you should find some spanish macks....Packery channel and surrounding flats have produced fish for me in August in the past but I have not been there in a while. My opinion is the smaller piggies work better for me nothing bigger than 2" but thats just my preference.
I[b]f the winds are a howling throw some dead shrimp on a #4 or #2 hook in the surf and catch some whiting...nice eating fish when fried u[/b]p. The hardheads are'nt that "big" of a problem in the surf. Im knocking on wood after that last statement.

Packery channel and surrounding flats have produced fish for me in August in the past but I have not been there in a while.

Speaking of catching whiting, my 8 yr old and 11 yr old kids will be fishing in the surf with me during our Aug trip (wife might give it a go too). I thought about tying on silver spoons for the kids (plan is to fish around daylight) since they are versatile and catch a wide cariety of fish. But, I thought if things are slow on artificials I could re-rig their rods and target whiting. What is a good bait, fresh dead shrimp? Lures?