Do Stripers Settle in for the Night?

[cow tamer]

I was fishing an inlet last night and found that after I'd caught a fish, nothing else was happening. I move 20 ft. down and bam, I'm onto some fish, then nothing. I move down another 20 ft. and bam, and so on. This got me thinking that once bass have moved into an area for the night that they stay pretty much in that area or spot (unlike blue fish). I would have thought that they would have swam back and forth within the inlet, but being somewhat lazy and conserving of strength, it now appears to me that they just set-up in a certain spot and wait for opportunity to come to them rathar than search out the opportunity. Now maybe this just happens in moving water and not along a beach front. Last night convinced me that I need to cover the whole inlet rathar than wait for the fish to move to me. What are your thoughts on moving along a stretch of inlet? a stretch of shoreline? during the night? during the day?