If the bass were feeding on top, they probably weren't chasing scup, scup are bottom dwellers. Tehy do work livelined, but probably not in your situation. The bass were probably feeding on the small fish, and so keyed in on them that you needed a real good imitation to fool one. Also it can be hard to compete, when there is a lot of bait in the water. You best bet would probably have been to catch some of the small fish and livelined them.
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