I caught over 300 stripers this october using the 6" pearl shad. When people next to me were casting everything they had and were saying the fish were picky , i was pulling fish out every cast. I had many 30+ days, mostly bass only a few blues. I didnt have too much luck with the bunker color. I caught some fish just slightly larger then the lure. I tried the 9" shad but i found the double hook to be a pain in the ass when fish got hooked twice, lost time that i coulda caught more. Some days i would hook into so many i would bend down the barb, and hook into 6 different fish on a cast, bringing one in . LA\rgest i brought in was 16.5lb 35" with many just a little smaller, and a mess of schoolies. I had one massive fish spool me, i can i only dream about how big it was, i couldnt even stop its run.
