Bass seem to eat just about anything. I think the most common food is what ever is around. I bet we are seeing more lobsta's because there are fewer sandeels and other baitfish then in years past. Last year many of the fish I caught had small lobsta's and small rocks in side, I guess if you can digest a lobsta shell, you problaby could pass a rock. My 'roids are flaring up just thinking about that.
I have also seen windowpane (flounders), crabs, snappers, begals, small blackfish, scup and bunker in there. The strangest thing was another small bass in there. But most of all I miss the sight of a 40+ so distened and gorged with sand eels it doesn't even look like a bass. I hope those days return.
I wonder where all the bait goes? A couple decades ago I recall seeing larges schools of mullet in the surf line...when was the last time you even saw a mullet? And where are the giant schools of bunker and clouds of sand eels so thick you can nearly walk on them? IMO the bait fish is more endangered then the piping plover...I see hundreds of those birds everytime I go to the beach....
I wonder of tatoo could whip up a lobsta-plug?