Look what I found.....you might find this pretty interesting stuff.....

Food Habits of Striped Bass in Coastal Waters of Massachusetts
http://www.mass.gov/dfwele/dmf/publications/nelsonetal2003add.pdf

But wait, there's more....

Mass Study Focuses On Striped Bass Diet In Local Waters

http://www.msba.net/main/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=82&Itemid=97

The amount of information from Ferry’s study can easily fill a book of more than 100 pages. Her thesis alone was more than 100 pages. It’s challenging to boil this mass of information down to digestible figures. For our purposes though, the information that will benefit us is that herring (juvenile Atlantic herring, not river herring, which were relatively rare) are one of the major food sources during the spring and bunker during the fall that we can easily imitate.