The "Golden Rule" for Fall Fishing...

[Fish_Eye]

I've often found that pockets of bait will eventually deliver schools of stripers. This time of year it's often feast or famine, the bass are on the move and looking for concentrations of bait fish, find one and you'll soon find the other.

Find a ball of bait hunkered down in the corner of the beach or at the tip of a point and it's only a matter of time before they face the hordes of south bound stripers.

Anchovies or menhaden start dumping out of salt ponds and it's not long before the predators shows up at the mouth of the breachway.

Here's a bass-eye view of menhaden and bay anchovies I shot within the last week.