The most impotant thing with sea fishing is knowledge, know the tide times high and low water, fishing from rocks can be very dangerous, go with someonelse and always tell others where your going. Tides, 2 perday add approx 20mins per tide or 1hr a day.
Walk an area at low tide and look at what will become the seabed, look for gullies in the sand or between rocks, on a rising tide fish will swim in less than a foot of water (first at the table you might say).
Worm beds shell fish beds etc are good featers for the feeding fish. Take a tranisit point from land to mark you spot, when the water comes in it all looks the same. Fishing time is up to you, 2hrs up and 2hrs down used to work for me.
Know your size limits if taking fish for the table, the fisheries officers used to be very hot round there. I encountered them alot, mostly when fishing from my boat, but they do run in shore and beach on occations.
Baits, worms, squid in strips, sand eel (deadly if fresh) shell fish off the rocks (for free) crab Under the weed in rock pools, prawn rock pools again.
Most important a spool of bait elastic to stop the crabs getting your bait off as soon as it hits the bottom.
I could go on for ever and never stopped learning.
There used to be a couple of good tackel shops in Porthmadog.
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