Beachwalker you need a few seal bombs. It will clear that place out in a hurry. I know they don't affect most fish but I don't know about striped bass (don't know why, would think everything would clear out?). They are used a lot on the West coast by squid fishermen in California and Halibut fishermen in Alaska, and I've even heard of some of the Yellowfin guys around here using them.
We used to have boxes of them on the boat in AK. We only used them for blowing chunks of ice off the boat.
Here's a link to a google on "Seal bombs".
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...22&btnG=Search