Will depend on the conditions and where you are fishing. Down here, November to early April, its a subsurface bite. I've caught a striper or two on surface swimmers in December, but probably 99.9% are subsurface. Late April to June, probably 95% surface, 5% subsurface, though I'm mostly fishing surface swimmers at that time. I know when I am up your way, subsurface off the breachways, mostly surface off the rocks/beaches. I'm mostly throwing topwater swimmers off the rocks/beaches, so that may have something to do with it.
Jigman
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