my son has been begging for me to take him out to the salt to do some fishing. I have only fished freshwater except for the occasional cattle boat or pier fishing. I've done a lot of research on this site and others and I've narrowed our first trip down to Dana point harbor or nph. I wanted an experts opinion on which they prefer. We will be targeting spotties and I received my load of big hammer swimbaits yesterday and I'll take some of my freshwater spinnerbaits as well. I've already looked at the tides for this weekend so I think I have that down although I'm still concerned about the unknown of salt water in a kayak even if it is in a protected harbor. If anyone has any other advice or cautions for a new harbor kayak fisherman with his 10 year old I'd appreciate it. Wish us luck and ill post some pics of we happen to get lucky. Just looking forward to trying something new.