At Cumberland in Late Sep and Early Oct, as the other guy said, look for surface feeding fish. Usually happens early in morning right at sunrise, and sometimes as late as up to 10 in the morning depending on light, fog, clouds, etc. Same thin as the sun goes down. My favorite spots include out in front of James town, first 2-3 turns in Lilly and Wolfe Creeks, and at the mouth of Beaver, behind the island on your right.

Live bait works good this time of year, shad or shiner, 40 to 25 foot down, 1 oz to 1/2 oz, under palner boards or downpoles.

Here's the dilemna. If you put live bait out, you wpn't be as mobile if the Stripe hit the surface in the jumps out of casting range. If you don't put live bait out, you might never get close to the jumps and miss out on fish.

If I'm in a spot where they just blew up close, and went back down, I immediately get 4 or 5 rods with live bait out on down poles at 25-40 foot. Sometimes the rods will get hit as they start to push bait up again. If they then blow up a short distance away, downpoles are fast to get up out of the water to run to the fish, and with shiners, if you balst the trolling motor the bait is not likely to drown.

Usually I crusie around looking for bait clouds near the surface, or till I see surface feeding. I kill the big motor, sit quiet, wait to see where they come up, then decide if I'm going to go with bait rods out or just throw lures.