Will clam necks work during the herring run ?

[Pt.JudeJoe]

Don't overlook squid as an early season bait. There are 2 things stripers are keyed in on in the spring in Narr. Bay - herring ,pogies, and squid . The bay is loaded with squid from the last week in April through May and when you clean your stripers ,you will find them loaded with squid too. It seems that this is the last good feed they get until the peanuts show up in late summer ,as you will find a lot of stripers with only green crabs in them during the first half of the summer.

[CANAL RAT]

stripers will take whats around.you think there going to turn there nose up at a nice glob of clams after migrating from the carolinas

[Offshore]

Within a day or two of when the Squid show on Horseshoe Shoals they are at Popponesset and South Cape Beach and, they are on squid, even with Herring running in the south-facing streams.

I'd certainly fish squid as a replacement for Herring, which you can't take for three years. Or, fish Atlantic Herring chunks.