I was fishin early mornin near the rocky shore and I heard some slurpin so I rush to the area and saw them jumpin cast and got some schollies but after 5 minutes they are gone. I saw the schools of blue fish burgin on my way. Were they scared of the blue fish or they just scared the bait fish away that's why the striper is also gone.

Or the bluefish just out competed the bass for your lure and were still there... seen that happen alot last week... had a small window to get through the blues and get a bass... the bass were there the rest of the time I guess... just couldn't hook em....

I guess your right I think I should wade more often than trying to catch it near the shore Co'z all i got from the shoreline are schoolies of small one's.

funny, always seems that the bass will precede the blues.

also, in deeper water, it's not unusual for bass to hover below the schools of blues for easy scraps.

Not just in deeper water!! from the shore , as the schools of blues drift by , the stripers are often drifting just behind them.

is that right? there's always striper drifting behind the school of blues?

Not "always"....... but "often".. :)

Sometimes as much as a few hundred yards . It's worth a shot to wait a while and fling a bucktail after the blues have passed.

Dontcha hate it when dem razorlips chew up a fancy bucktail you just tied? ARGH! :mad: :af:

I lost 2 rubber eel and shad already on those D!@#$% Blues....

some people tell me their under the blues when this happens? any truth to that?

big stripers hang under big feeding blues and weakfish trail behind feeding stripers and blues. try working a kastmaster or rubber shad near the bottom when a blitz is happing i have picked some big stripers this way

or the amber eyed bastards will hold in a rip and you gotta blast a cast out waaaaayyy past the "good water" because its infested, then when you drift out 240 - 250 yds out you finally get into bass, then you do the I hope my mainline to backing knot holds dance when you hook up out in texas. :(