Your best bet for consistantly pulling fish over twenty pounds would be to fish Montauk Point, or any of the south shore inlets. If artificials are your bag, bucktails have to be at or near the top of the list. Top water plugs would have to put pencil poppers up there. Metal lip swimmers too. If you want to up your chances for cows, use eels. Now you won't be able to throw them for the entire tide, so concentrate on the last of the incoming or the bottom of the out going, when the water slows down. For best results, throw them at night. Bluefish love them too, so throw them after dark, and bring more than a couple. Bluefish can chop up a dozen eels in as many casts. Bunker chunks are up there too, as are clams. I don't care to use clams, but they do catch a lot of bass. You'll catch a lot of school sized fish with them, but they will take fish over twenty. Structure (rocks), moving water, drop offs, rips, and access to deep water are the keys to finding bigger bass. Also, bigger bait usually attracts bigger bass. Adult bunker, herring, shad, small bluefish, blackfish, etc., are fodder for cows. Think like a bass...you will find them. Also, use you eyes and ears to help you tune in to where the fish are. Reports, (even old ones) can be useful for future trips. If they were hitting good on the last hour of the incoming in a particular spot in the spring, it may hold true in the fall. Observe the water during different tide stages, scout out a spot during the day, get familiar with it, learn it, get comfortable with it, then ply what you learned at night or before dawn...that's the best time for your larger bass. The more time you put in, the greater your rewards. Hope this helps to put someone into fish. Good luck!