Unfortunately, if big stripers are your goal, you’re better off fishing lures than bait from ... or rubber-core sinker to the leader above a live bait will help drag it down to the strike ...

Fishing report compiled by California ... combining striped bass with sturgeon trips, drifting live bait, trolling, or spooning for stripers before anchoring up for the diamondbacks.

Fishing from the beach for perch and stripers has slowed to a snail’s ... “We still have some live bait in our receivers, but you can get them on cut sardines or anchovies right now as they ...