Plastic worms also mimic eels work good for saltwater too, 12" crawlers are good for cutbait just hard to find call them in with shallow buried cornmeal
Want durability? Try ugly stick, rhino tuf, glass/graph composite
Creeks and streams- go light,1/8oz jighead,slide a tube jig body over it and poke eyelet thru to tie off.i like blk w/fire tail,crawdad brown & green/chartreuse tail
Try blueberry hand sanitizer. No I'm not joking
Lmb is great white meat, try blackened if you like spicy
Winter fishing is usually a slow endeavor.take him to a Bassproshop or local tackle shop. Maybe he'll find something HE wants to fish with. *note: this might create a monster, I mean avid fisherman
My Papa taught me to fish too,catch bait,find fishy spots . Thanks for making my life and myself better,so much more than a full stringer
Check for a pier landing net on google
Try silver "soap bars " from bassproshops
Gold and silver spoons, hammered or smooth finishes both work well
Dramamine, ginger ale and saltines if you get queezy
Try FG knot or surgeons loop
I fish Texas coast w/ 2 rods, a 7ft medium w/penn 5500ss,30lb braid good for whiting to specks & reds. My big stake out rod is 9ft eagle claw surf beast w/ shimano TLD15 w/300 yds 50lb braid.keep lures simple-gold spoon, jig w/shrimptail or favorite plastic & a 6-8in purple worm! They imitate juvenile eels, specks &reds will bust it hard. Good luck