a few of my mates fish the long arm often in the summer, you can get some good rays aswell as bass, conger, flattys, garfish, mackys, doggys etc. baits sandeels live for the bass dead, ones for the rays with the normal rag, squid, lug etc catching most others. as for the tides don't think theres any problem in fishing all states, but some of the others will help you there i'm sure. hope this will help doggy