I am , by no means a striper fishing expert. Last Wednesday, myself a friend of mine and RC-5 absolutly knocked their lights out. In all honesty me and my friend boated 42 with Richard catching about 12 or so. These fish were alot bigger than the ones we were catching early in the spring. It didnt matter what you threw out there to them they would hit it. Caught them on Spoons, hard swimbaits, soft swimbaits, rico's, Grubs, you name it. These fish were rolling on top. This was by far the finnest trip i had ever been on in my life.