I still say the best "over-all" lure you can use is the "Kastmaster"...
Using a Kastmaster, I've caught species like scup - hickory shad - fluke / flounder - cunnerfish - snapper blues / bluefish - different varieties of mackerel - Stripers of course - sea robin - sea bass - smelts - anchovy - sardines - tommy cod - polluck - squid - crabs - silversides...and these are just species from my local waters. I'm sure if I headed south, I'd start an entirely new list...the possibilities are endless. You can catch fish up and down the food chain, hence using the smaller fish to catch larger...and so on. If your stuck on an Island with one lure.....KASTMASTER!!! If we're talking survival, you can eat any type of fish listed above. I'm sorry but a bucktail WILL NOT catch all the species listed above. I'm sure the list is long for a bucktail...but I'd bet $$$ the list is longer for a Kastmaster... Overall does not mean
just Stripers my friends...we're talking survival here.
your friend and mine,
the Crab~