Schooling and hybrid stripers

​With the upcoming summer heat, stripers and wipers move off shore to chase baitfish in deeper water. These fish can be caught in a variety of ways, and the methods used will help you catch more fish. Start out by making your way to deeper water and look for birds, bait fish, and stripers busting the surface. When fish are busting the surface, large topwaters and lipless crankbaits worked erratically will garner more strikes. Some days fish will be down deep, so you will need to look for schools of baitfish on your graph and vertical jig spoons and underspins lures.