I know how you feel, last week my family and I were trying to cast worm harnesses in 6 ft. waves, we had no idea what we were doing. so here is my advice it worked for us. Find a good bait shop in the area and just talk to poeple. believe it or not most poeple are very helpful and very friendly in giving advice about rigging and what harnesses may be producing and even where they are catching the fish. after we got skunked our first morning we went to the bait shop and got some advice. we used 4 and 6 oz. bottom bouncers with 4 ft worm harnesses with #4 and #5 gold colorado blades with gold beeds. that was in really rough water, I imagine you would have to lighten up bit the calmer it gets. hope this helps at all. Oh by the way the next 3 days we limited out in 4 to 5 hours each day.