dont be discouraged....sounds like you were on the right track. stripers are rude and inconsiderate....sometimes they just dont show up.

like andrew said, im just not a big fan of rain at night, i kow some people are going to say the best night they ever had was a rainy night....ok. but more often than not it doesnt help. i'll take a dark dreary day anytime, but i can do wihtout the rainy nights.

i know of 2 boats last night with 2 very good night-time striper hunters in each boat.....they had one keeper between the 2 boats and very very few hits period. so maybe you just happened to be there on a bad night.

i agree with everything thats been suggested above, great advice, the only thing i would add is if you tie on a gizz4 and keep it on and keep throwing it and keep throwing it you will surely catch a striper, or a walleye, or a smallmouth, or a big flathead, i have a hard time throwing anything else anymore, great confidence bait. the same thing applies as the other baits , throw it inches from the bank and slow, slow slow retrieve, just under the surface, donnt set the hook gentle sweep of the rod, its a crankbait and will pull out sometimes.