in saltponds/marshes try a popper with alot of action and silver deadly #^&#^&#^&#^&s and olive colored mambo minnows these imitate sand eels and small bait fish you find in a marsh don't be scared to go a little light on your tackle think small marshes/saltponds are also a good place for the fly rod try small clousers and sandeel patterns. try the outflow of creeks at a falling tide this flushes baitfish out with the tide and stripers and blues will be there to feed. try the spot where the marsh/saltpond meet open sea incoming or outgoing tides tons of bait fish are getting swept in/out and the stripers and blues will be there.

you can use any type of swimmer just maske sure its matches the size of the baitfish. up where i live (cape cod) juvie herring start falling back from the ponds they were born from down the creeks and rivers that guess what that empty in to salt ponds,marshes and bays. fish the out flows of these steams,creeks at spring when big herring are going up river and fall when juvie herring are falling back to saltwater.

P.S. i should write for a fishing magazing huh!!