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I'll tell you, it's much easier getting them from a boat than the shore. When I had access to a big boat, flies and metal both worked quite well, although the flies worked better. Also, there are some guys who use the six inch sluggos in pearl with great success.
But a few key points in fishing for these things ... keep your offering in the water ... if they are jumping up beach from you and down beach from you, the fish are cruising around ... I cannot tell you how many times I have hooked up on these fish when they were in the general neighborhood and not jumping directly in front of me.
Also, try fishing a teaser with your metal, that may do the trick for you. But again, from the beach we often only get a cast off before the things have passed on ... still take a few casts after they have gone ... if the bait is still hanging around, the fish will be back.
As for a retrieve, vary your retrieve ... fast, then adjust accordingly.
Speculation on how and where is always easier sitting here at the computer then in person ... hard to tell exactly what's going on without being there ... but if you can position yourself in an area where they hold up for a period of time, stay put, as the fish will often come back to the bait.
A pocket before a point, the outgoing tide at an inlet ... at times these will hold the fish longer than the half-second splash and go. There are some very well known spots that hold the fish like that up and down the coast, we don't need to name them here.
Also, when the crowd continues to run down the beach after the fish, one time, hang back and see what happens. When I used to fish Montauk from a boat ... the main body of fish would stay on those massive clouds of white bait, but as the crowd of boats moved down the beach with the cloud of bait, often the fish would pick up again in the same spot they started at, and no one would be around.
It's this pattern that I look for when fishing the beaches/rocks for the albies these days.
Always prefer the fly to spoons, but again, if you have a fly teaser, it may get the job done. But, I have also had albies crash on plugs and large flies with heavy metal leaders meant for bluefish ... so one never knows what will happen with these finicky feeders. Hope there was something useful in this rambling.
Good luck.
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