There are so many ways to fish for stripers. But if you want to catch stripers you have to consider a few things ie time of year, time of day, weather conditions, and even location. Stripers like any other bass like structure so look for rock piles, jettes, reefs, canyons, ledges and areas where different currents meet. Schoolies and sizes up to mid 30" fish can be found in tidal rivers around this time following shad and herring, and if your lucky you can be around for the cinder worm hatch. Swimming baits such as sluggos, sassy shads, and fin-s minnows produce the best in these areas while plugs will sometimes get good results. As for the bigger fish, they didnt get big by being dumb. They sit at the mouths of rivers, edge of canyons, etc catching baitfish that pass them swept by the tide or current. The go to artificial for these fish while not on a boat would be used on or near the surface such as poppers, plugs, googoo eyes, or other slow swimming plugs. As for bait it would depend on time of day. Durring daytime your best bet would be sandworms or bloodworms and chunk bait. Night time use eels or chunk bait particularly the head, especially with bunker. The eyes glow in the moon light. Any questions just PM me.
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