SF welcome and I'll chime in some on fishing the rocks and offer some tips. While I don't know specifically the water you fish, I'm going to invision it's similar to a section I grew up fishing called the Glades. It's all big giant bolders and ledge, tons of cover for bass, nice when the seas aren't too bad, but somewhat dangerous (sorry about your loose) when they are bad. I'd also guess that your water is somewhat clear, probably cooler than what we see typically, which means the bass might be in tighter even during the day, or at least in low light. It would all depend on the depth out in front, the time of year, water temperatures and what they might be feeding on. In my waters there isn't a lot of bait around, save the harbor pollack, so bass feed very heavily on lobsters and crabs.
Bass are bass, freshwater or salt and are basically lazy dumb creatures and will set up shop where they can grab an easy meal. That might mean a point, edge (where rock means sand or where shallow meats deep etc), current breaks and the like. Try to look at the water (low tide being a good time for scouting) as if you were fat and lazy and had fins
. Might give you a jump start on the best spots to set up for the morning or evening.
You say rocks and I think tidy bowl, look for the big flushers. Any spots that funnel large quantities of water in with swells or surf and out again after the bowl fills and flushes are great spots for my favorite method. That would be plastic jerkbaits, which I won't get into in too much detail, go to my website and read the article I wrote on that. Plastic + Rocks + Swells + Low Light = Bass, well usually, but you still have to scout and find the best spots. While you have a chunk of mackeral out doing it's thing, I'd be slinging some plastic in tight, sometimes right at your feet. You might be surprised to find out what youv'e been casting over all these days out.
Welcome and tight lines.