We had a lot of kids (10) and 5 adults who wanted to catch and see some big shark so knowing the bite was slow and the beach would be a ghost town so we put out a mega spread (11rods!!) from the up close in the surf with the light tackle to 600 plus yards off the beach with big reels. We ended up go 3/4 on large sharks on the trip. The biggest shark was a sandbar shark over 7ft the other two sharks were sandtiger sharks close to 5ft. Everyone took turns fighting the fish, big fish are a challenge and a lot of work. The big fish was caught on the 600 yd drop thats over a third of a mile!!! Talk about a sea monster. The meduim sized tackle produced the two 4-5 ft sand tigers which put up a good fight on that tackle. The surf casting was producing whiting, a smaller fish that is common in the surf and fished with lighter tackle.