Artificial baits for striped bass

Artificial baits can be just as effective as natural bait at times. To be such ravenous feeders when in a surface feeding tail spacking frenzy, striped bass can get pretty picky at times.

Top water lures can be productive through out the year when their are surfacing schools, especially at dawn and dusk.

Popular artificial baits include white or yellow bucktail jigs, spoons, deep running crankbaits and a spinner with trailers swimming plugs, jigs, tubes. Fly Rods with surface lures are good when stripers are schooling at the surface.

Another trolling method that is used in the Ocean and has made its way to inland lakes is the umbrella rig.

Preferred foods for Striped Bass mainly consist of gizzard and threadfin shad, golden shiners and minnows.