For grins, is anybody throwing live bait suspended under a slip bobber set for about 3 feet deep? We do that for fun, and it does produce. Add one of those miniature chemlights/glowsticks to the top of the slip bobber, and you can get some really great visuals as a Striper moves in, gets the bait nervous, then finally takes it and starts to swim off and dive with it.

And you maximize dwell time in the strike zone of 2-5 feet of the bank.

If things get slow, try it. Threadfin shad work fine as bait, shiners last longer on the hook, but don't get hit as readily as the threadfin shad do.