Pier/beach fishing

[Plinkbob]

I just recently moved back to southwestern Michigan. Before I left I was getting into Beach fishing and still have some questions. If you have any tips that would be great. I'm just trying to figure out how tell if it's actually worth trying from the beach this time of year or if I'm wasting time.
 

I'll remove this post if it's not allowed in this section, all the other forums seemed to be dead. 
 

[frogman]

Just fish when you can steelhead inter the river all year long