Need your help and experience with schoolies feeding on Sand Eels in the early dawn hours from the beaches surf casting along western Connecticut shoreline. What type of artificals are most productive? Tried Deadly #^&#^&#^&#^&s and Red Fins and came up empty.

Those are good...how about some small weighted Sluggo's or Hogy's? Maybe a needlefish?

You can also try the clear/green Bombers. Bucktails also have a nice slim profile. Olive and white if you got them but plain old white works also. Try a green pork rind on it or if you can grab yourself a couple of the Sandeels you can tip it with them.

Sometimes it can be more difficult to catch if there is an overabundance of bait. You must be patient. If you can, toss your lure around the outside of the school. Alot of the time bass will hang out waiting to pick off the injured or slow or just plain stupid baitfish.

Hope this helps

Also small pencil poppers might get their attention.....3/4 oz. to 1 oz.;)

If their swimming in schools try a 4" sluggo or a 5" olive colored mambo minnow. If you need some distance use the 4" sluggo with a wooden egge.

If the sandeels are on the bottom the 4" sluggo with a lead head bounced along the bottom often does the trick.

try weightless 6" sluggos and zoom super flukes rigged on a 5/0 Owner offset worm hook.

A small thin needlefish - like a smaller Super Strike with a Red Gill or Sand Eel teaser. Slowwww

Learn to flyfish :D. That's part of the reason I finally learned.

I've great success with Salty's 1oz needle.

6" sluggo (Arkansas Shiner color) with a 3/4oz jig head have been absolutely deadly for me the last few days I was out! These also worked really well on the surface, and just below, fished erratically. They cast really well too.

If you are on a sandy beach get one of these DOWN in the sand and twitch them . They will imitatate a sandeel trying to hide,and this triggers the strike reaction.

Actually this is the photo I was looking for for the above post. Thing is..get 'em down and kick up some sand and the striper will pay attention!

Not easy to find, but the best - 4 1/2" or 5 1/2" Hellcat. Add a teaser for double header fun.

Not easy to find, but the best - 4 1/2" or 5 1/2" Hellcat. Add a teaser for double header fun.
Hellcat.....good stuff there.

i would say throw a sand eel colored RonZ. Fish it sllloooww