Slow Morning @ CNS LOT 4

Invited my buddy Zack and neighbor Dave to join me Saturday morning at CNS. Woke up early before 5am and called up Dave to see if he was about ready. On the way I scooped up Zack and headed to the coast. Quick pitstop to the baitshop to load up on shrimp and ice. We finially parked at Lot 4 around 6:45am and hauled our gear to the beach. It's not so bad with my foldable beach cart that has balloon tires. It really floats on sand while hauling my cooler and tackle bag.
Upon arrival it was almost low tide and the waves were not big at all. We started with 4 rods with a mix of frozen sand flea and fresh dead shrimp. We quickly noticed the current was very strong which made it hard to fan out. The only weight that held were my 4oz spider weights, but I really don't like them. They hold good, but they make retrieval very difficult. Several times I picked up my rod after a bite and I felt the weight literally STUCK in the sand. I had to hold the drag and pull the weight out of the sand before reeling in. I kept switching back from pyramid to spider weights and back to pyramid, trying to find something that would work for us. I thought the current would slow down as the tide slacked, but I don't that even happened. Seemed like the current kept rolling the whole time. I think we only caught a couple croakers and catfish the whole day. It was pretty bad.
Towards the end of the trip after 9am, Zacks rod goes bizerk. The fight would continue to take line, just a constant drag singing. The drag was tightened down to try to turn the fish back towards us, because it was headed straight towards where several other surf fishermen were posted up. The fish was still really far out and I'm still not sure what the hell it was. But after several minutes, the rig popped. My pompano rigs are only 25lb test and the whole rig was gone. All that was left was the top barrel swivel of the rig. One of those fish you can't stop I guess. I don't think we would've had enough drag on my reel to pull it in anyway. Could've been a big stingray pulling away, but we like to presume otherwise. LOL
My friends said they had fun, even with the slow fishing day. I had fun too but definitly disappointed in the fishing. It could've been worse I guess, we could've got skunked completely. With no fish in the cooler after a long morning, we packed up and left after 10am.